Hostname: page-component-7b7567c8c-tnzcf Total loading time: 0 Render date: 2026-11-14T21:06:30.966Z Has data issue: false hasContentIssue false
  • English
  • Français

The Empirical Quest for Normative Meaning: Introduction and Overview

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  23 January 2015

William C. Frederick
Get accessRights & Permissions [Opens in a new window]

Extract

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?

Information

Type
Articles
Information
Business Ethics Quarterly , Volume 2 , Issue 2 , April 1992, pp. 91 - 98
Copyright
Copyright © Society for Business Ethics 1992

Access options

Get access to the full version of this content by using one of the access options below. (Log in options will check for institutional or personal access. Content may require purchase if you do not have access.)

Article purchase

Temporarily unavailable

References

Babbie, E. (1989). The Practice of Social Research, Belmont, CA: Wadsworth.Google Scholar
Derry, Robbin (1987). “Moral Reasoning in Work-related Conflicts.” In Frederick, William C. and Preston, Lee E. (eds.), Research in Corporate Social Performance and Policy: Empirical Studies of Business Ethics and Values, vol. 9, pp. 25–49.Google Scholar
Etzioni, Amitai (1988). The Moral Dimension: Toward a New Economics. New York: Free Press.Google Scholar
Jackall, Robert (1988). Moral Mazes: The World of Corporate Managers. New York: Oxford University Press.Google Scholar
Randall, Donna, and Annetta, Gibson (1990). “Methodology in Business Ethics Research: A Review and Critical Assessment.” Journal of Business Ethics, vol. 9, pp. 457–71.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Donna, Randall M., and Fernandes, Maria F. (1991). “The Social Desirability Response Bias in Ethics Research.” Journal of Business Ethics, vol. 10, pp. 11–23.Google Scholar
Toffler, Barbara (1986). Tough Choices: Managers Talk Ethics. New York: Wiley.Google Scholar
Trevino, Linda (1986). “Ethical Decision-making in Organizations: A Person-Situation Interactionist Model.” Academy of Management Review, vol. 11, pp. 601–17.Google Scholar
Waters, James, Frederick, Bird, and Peter, Chant (1986). “Everyday Moral Issues Experienced by Managers.” Journal of Business Ethics, vol. 5, pp. 373–84.CrossRefGoogle Scholar