The Impossibility of the Separation Thesis: A Response to Joakim Sandberg
本文论证将商业与伦理分离不仅徒劳且不可能,并指出这种分离对理论和实践产生有害的次级效应,主张整合经济与道德考量,为商业伦理学科开辟新路径。
Distinguishing “business” concerns from “ethical” values is not only an unfruitful and meaningless task, it is also an impossible endeavor. Nevertheless, fruitless attempts to separate facts from values produce detrimental second-order effects, both for theory and practice, and should therefore be abandoned. We highlight examples of exemplary research that integrate economic and moral considerations, and point the way to a business ethics discipline that breaks new ground by putting ideas and narratives about business together with ideas and narratives about ethics.