Scholarly Articles

Cases in Corporate Ethics 5.2: The case involves three key stakeholders – Bain Capital Partners, Lilliput Kids wear and Ernst & Young. It brings to light the classic case of breach of trust.

Cases in Corporate Ethics 5.3: Japan is putting pressure on India to sort out taxation, labor and other problems that Toyota, Mitsubishi and Honda are currently facing in India.

As Laudato Si’ makes clear, the way we currently produce, distribute, and consume simply cannot continue, and even if it could continue, it is tragically unjust and should be altered.

The following invited essay by Dr. Michael Garanzini, S.J., is based on a talk Fr.

Nathan O’Rourke’s simple service contract became complicated when the contractor he was responsible for chose to work beyond the scope of the contract.

As a result of complying with a request made of al law firms to investigate gender equity, by his Bar Association, Merle Richards obtains evidence that his firm’s environment may not be gender ne

This critical incident represents a real situation in which a well-known billionaire television executive, Oprah Winfrey was caught in the middle of a sex scandal at her beloved Leadership Academ

This decisive critical incident describes events which took place within the community of Ferguson, MO following the shooting of an unarmed African American teenager by a white policy officer tha

This critical incident takes place in the Philippine office of an engineering design consultancy whose parent company is British.

Ann Igbo’s small business, Heritage Health Resources, was strapped for cash. Client insurance payments dribbled in and cash flow had become a problem.

In 1912, two explorers, Roald Amundsen and Robert F. Scott, were preparing separate expeditions to conquer the South Pole.

Production and profit objectives were not being met by the two-week old Leonidas Mining Philippines Joint Venture with Gab International, USA.

On the flight back to his home station, Captain Jack Thompson pondered his choices. He had to make the decision now because his unit was about to deploy to Afghanistan.

MannKind Corporation is a small biotechnology firm faced with a critical decision to find a partner to market its first product.

This decision case focuses on a consumer products company, Edwards Paper Company (EdCo), as it redesigns its supply chain for poly-wrap.

In 2007, our university signed the American College and University Presidents Climate Commitment agreement. At the time, that organization comprised fewer than two dozen schools; now it has hundreds.

What is the proper role of business leaders with regard to sustainability? In this paper, we dialectically bring the disciplines of economics and philosophy to bear on this question.

Faculty members across the academy regularly use rubrics for assessing a variety of student work. Such assessments and rubrics are inherently based on the pedagogy employed by the educators.

Few challenges are as formidable as trying to reconcile ethically responsible behavior with the bottom line. Is there a relationship between ethical business practices and business performance?

In the spirit of this journal’s invitation to address the questions What’s so?, So what?, and Now what?, this editorial will comment brie"y on possible responses to these three questions—response