Virtue ethics; Alasdair MacIntyre; Institutional theory; UK; Sri Lanka
摘要
This paper seeks to establish whether the categories of Maclntyrean virtue ethics as applied to business organizations are meaningful in a non-western business context. It does so by building on research reported in Moore (Organ Stud, 33(3): 363–387, 2012) in which the application of virtue ethics to business organizations was investigated empirically in the UK, based on a conceptual framework drawn from Maclntyre's work (After Virtue 2007). Comparing these results with an equivalent study in Sri Lanka, the paper finds that the categories are meaningful but that there are both similarities to and considerable differences in the content of these categories from the UK study. The paper draws on aspects of institutional theory to explore and explain these findings. Overall, there is supportive evidence that the categories of Maclntyrean virtue ethics are generalizable, and so can be used to characterize problems of organizational virtue and vice around the world, while providing evidence that there may be polities which are more conducive to the 'practice-like conduct of production' (Keat, Philos Manag, 7(1): 77–91, 2008).
目次
Abstract 185 Keywords 185 Introduction 185 Review of the Literature 186 MacIntyre's Conceptual Framework 186 Institutional Theory 188 Methodological Considerations, the Study Context, the Case Study Organizations and Research Methods 189 Methodological Considerations and the Study Context 189 The Case Study Companies and Research Methods 190 Results, Comparisons with Previous Findings and Preliminary Discussion 191 Organizational Purpose 191 Success-Excellence Exercise: Qualitative Findings 194 Success-Excellence Exercise: Quantitative Findings 196 Discussion 197 Conclusion 199 References 200
