Moral Disagreements in Business ― An Exploratory Introduction

This book disassembles the moral assessment of business practices into its constituent parts to identify and clarify the four key concepts that form the basis of important moral disagreements in business: ‘personhood,’ ‘ownership,’ ‘harm,’ and ‘consent.’ ‘Moral bottom lines’ are those fundamental concepts in business ethics that ultimately account for our most resilient moral claims and unsurpassable convictions, and exploring them provides essential insights into the grounds on which we disagree in business ethics. This analysis is useful for students in business school looking to understand fundamental moral disagreements in business and for practitioners interested in connecting practice with their own moral intuitions. The book also challenges scholars of business ethics by arguing that we can reduce business ethics disagreements to these four issues.

Marian Eabrasu is currently Associate Professor at the Groupe ESC Troyes-en-Champagne (France) and research fellow at the GRANEM (Angers University / France). He obtained his PhD in moral and political philosophy at the Paris VIII Saint-Denis University (France), and his Habilitation in economics and management at the Angers University (France). His research interests cover various areas of economics, management and philosophy with a special emphasis on business ethics and corporate social responsibilities.