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Ethical Dilemma Of Foreign Aid And China's One-Child Policy, Kip Klingman
Ethical Dilemma Of Foreign Aid And China's One-Child Policy, Kip Klingman
Kip Klingman
Discussion: whether to or not to provide funds for a group in China, which provides family health clinics in the most poverty-stricken regions in China.
False Beliefs, Partial Truths: Personal Myths And Ethical Blind Spots, Crina Archer, Laura Hartman
False Beliefs, Partial Truths: Personal Myths And Ethical Blind Spots, Crina Archer, Laura Hartman
Laura Hartman
While unethical actions may arise from conscious, deliberate and reflective choices to do ‘wrong,’ many unethical decisions emerge instead from an absence of awareness of ethical responsibility. The metaphor of ‘blind spots’ has been deployed productively to describe mental obstacles that impede ethical responsibility at the individual level, but do not rise to the level of conscious awareness. Blind spots prevent us from attending to relevant data, different points of view, alternative solutions, and foreseeable consequences crucial to forging an ethical response. We identify three common myths that tend to foster ethical blind spots at the individual level by rendering …
The Ethics Of Shareholder Value: Duty, Rights & Football, Donald Nordberg
The Ethics Of Shareholder Value: Duty, Rights & Football, Donald Nordberg
Donald Nordberg
How does a board of directors decide what is right? The contest over this question is frequently framed as a debate between shareholder value and stakeholder rights, between a utilitarian view of the ethics of corporate governance and a deontological one. This paper uses a case study with special circumstances that allow us to examine the conflict between shareholder value and other bases on which a board can act. In the autumn of 2010 the board of Liverpool Football Club sold the company to another investing group against the wishes of the owners. The analysis suggests the board saw more …