Business Ethics and Social Theory: Postmodernizing the Ethical
从社会理论视角探讨商业伦理的可能性条件，分析道德哲学与实用管理主义之间的张力，并以后现代认识论质疑决策与判断等核心概念。
This exploratory paper is concerned with the conditions of possibility of business ethics from the viewpoint of social theory. The paper begins with a description of the tensions between moral philosophy and pragmatic managerialism that largely constitute the field of business ethics. It then explores some of the elements of this field – focusing particularly on the identity of ethics, the difference between ethics and morals and the tension between stories of nostalgia and modernization. The following section frames the problem of ethics in terms of modern and postmodern epistemologies which then leads into a (postmodern) attempt to undermine the notions of ‘decision’ and ‘judgement’ that must be central to any (modern) conception of ethics. The paper concludes with some speculations on the relevance and irrelevance of contributions like this to thinking, teaching and writing business ethics.