Editorial Introduction: Putting Virtues Into Practice. A Challenge for Business and Organizations

摘要

Recent years have witnessed an increasing interest in virtue ethics and its application to business (Hartman 2006, 2008; Koehn 1995, 1998; Solomon 1992, 1993, 2003; Whestone 2001). "Virtue ethics"-as opposed to utilitarian and consequentialist ethics, on the one hand, and deontological ethics, on the other-puts special emphasis on the development of moral character. This makes virtue ethics an excellent platform from which to analyze various aspects of human action, professional work, and business activity.