Virtue in Business: Alliance Boots and an Empirical Exploration of MacIntyre’s Conceptual Framework
基于麦金太尔的道德哲学，构建了组织美德伦理的概念框架，并通过联盟博姿的纵向案例研究，验证了该框架在资本主义商业组织中的适用性，推进了内部与外部商品关系的理论。
This paper contextualizes before summarizing a conceptual framework for virtue ethics in organizations that has been developed by drawing upon the work of the moral philosopher Alasdair MacIntyre. Conducting empirical work with this framework is at an embryonic stage and so, having discussed methodological issues, the paper reports on findings from a longitudinal case study-based research project into the private equity-owned organization Alliance Boots. It demonstrates the applicability of the conceptual approach and hence the presence of practices and virtues even within capitalist business organizations. It makes theoretical advances particularly in the relationship between internal and external goods. It proposes a mapping for virtue in organizations and uses this to conduct an organizational analysis of Alliance Boots and its predecessor organizations. The paper thus makes both theoretical and empirical contributions to our knowledge in the area of applied virtue ethics.