The Empirical Quest for Normative Meaning: Introduction and Overview
本文探讨实证研究商业伦理是否必然受实证主义束缚，以及能否提供对商业决策的规范性视角，涉及多学科对价值与伦理可及性的反思。
MUST the empirical study of business ethics and values stand in the shadow of positivism? If so, does that constrain such studies to normatively sterile descriptions of purported facts? And would the methods thus employed fall short of yielding needed normative perspectives on business decisions that occasionally mean life or death, and even more often affect the quality of life, for those who feel their weight? Are the values and ethical principles that lie behind business actions so elusive, so inaccessible, so imprecise that they must remain forever in the shadowy realm of speculation and commonsense opinion, never to be liberated from positivism’s Gulag?