Drucker as business moralist

Journal of Business Ethics

Volumn 28, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 121-128

  Klein, S ^a  

^a FAIRLEIGH DICKINSON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 0034310892     PISSN: 01674544     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1006222808524     Document Type: Article

References (58)

1. Peter F. Drucker, "What is 'business ethics'"? The Public Interest, #63 (Spring 1981): 18-36. For substantially the same position, also see Peter F. Drucker, "Ethical Chic," Forbes (September 14, 1981), and Peter F. Drucker, "The Matter of 'Business Ethics'," in The Changing World of the Executive (New York: Truman Talley Books, 1982).
2. Peter F. Drucker, "What is 'business ethics'"? The Public Interest, #63 (Spring 1981): 18-36. For substantially the same position, also see Peter F. Drucker, "Ethical Chic," Forbes (September 14, 1981), and Peter F. Drucker, "The Matter of 'Business Ethics'," in The Changing World of the Executive (New York: Truman Talley Books, 1982).
3. Peter F. Drucker, "What is 'business ethics'"? The Public Interest, #63 (Spring 1981): 18-36. For substantially the same position, also see Peter F. Drucker, "Ethical Chic," Forbes (September 14, 1981), and Peter F. Drucker, "The Matter of 'Business Ethics'," in The Changing World of the Executive (New York: Truman Talley Books, 1982).
4. Drucker, p. 20.
5. Drucker also argues that this view suggests that business has an ethical responsibility because of its social impacts. Nonetheless, we shall see that Drucker, himself, holds a version of this position.
6. Drucker, p. 32.
7. Drucker, p. 34.
8. Drucker, p. 34.
9. W. Michael Hoffman and Jennifer Mills Moore, "What is Business Ethics? A Reply to Peter Drucker," Journal of Business Ethics 1 (1982): 293-300.
10. Hoffman and Moore, p. 293.
11. Jack Beatty, The World According to Peter Drucker (New York: The Free Press, 1998).
12. Beatty, p. 107.
13. Beatty, p. 107.
14. Beatty, p. 107.
15. Beatty, p. 176.
16. Peter F. Drucker, The Practice of Management (New York: Harper and Row, 1954), p. 381.
17. Drucker, Practice of Management, p. 378.
18. Drucker, p. 388.
19. Drucker, p. 382.
20. Drucker says, "Managements are in the habit of saying that they have a responsibility to the shareholder for profits. But the shareholder, at least in a publicly owned company, can always sell his stock. Society, however, is stuck with the enterprise. It has to take the loss if the enterprise does not produce adequate profits, has to take the impoverishment if the enterprise does not succeed in innovation and growth" (Drucker, 387).
21. Drucker, pp. 382-383.
22. Drucker, p. 383.
23. Peter F. Drucker, Management: Tasks, Responsibilities, Practices (New York: Harper and Row, 1974), p. 809.
24. Drucker, Management: Tasks, Responsibilities, Practices, pp. 809-810.
25. Drucker, Management: Tasks, Responsibilities, Practices, p. 810.
26. Drucker, Management: Tasks, Responsibilities, Practices, p. 811.
27. Drucker, Management: Tasks, Responsibilities, Practices, p. 327.
28. Drucker, Management: Tasks, Responsibilities, Practices, p. 347.
29. Drucker, Management: Tasks, Responsibilities, Practices, p. 333.
30. Drucker, Management: Tasks, Responsibilities, Practices, p. 349.
31. "Only to the extent that it [management] masters the economic circumstances, and alters them by conscious, directed action, does it really manage" (Drucker, Practice of Management, p. 12).
32. Drucker, Management: Tasks, Responsibilities, Practices, p. 808.
33. Drucker, Practice of Management, p. 14.
34. Drucker, Practice of Management, p. 145.
35. Drucker, Practice of Management, p. 146.
36. See, for example, Drucker, Practice of Management, p. 349 and p. 378.
37. Drucker, Practice of Management, p. 299.
38. Drucker, Practice of Management, pp. 159-160.
39. Drucker, Practice of Management, p. 183.
40. Drucker, Practice of Management, p. 266.
41. Drucker, Practice of Management, p. 269.
42. Drucker, Practice of Management, p. 299.
43. Peter F. Drucker, Post-Capitalist Society (New York: Harper Collins, 1993).
44. Drucker, Post-Capitalist Society, p. 44.
45. Drucker, Post-Capitalist Society, pp. 192-193.
46. Drucker, Post-Capitalist Society, p. 49.
47. Drucker, Post-Capitalist Society, p. 53.
48. Drucker, Post-Capitalist Society, p. 66.
49. Drucker, Post-Capitalist Society, p. 201.
50. Drucker, Post-Capitalist Society, p. 202.
51. Peter F. Drucker, "Management's New Paradigms," Forbes (October 5, 1998): 152-177.
52. Drucker, "Management's New Paradigms," p. 166.
53. Drucker, "Management's New Paradigms," p. 166.
54. Drucker, Management: Tasks, Responsibilities, Practices, p. 366.
55. Drucker, Management: Tasks, Responsibilities, Practices, p. 369.
56. Actually, the term Plato uses is "techne." This term is usually translated as skill or craft. However, the Liddell and Scott Greek dictionary suggests that, for Plato, to learn a techne is to learn to do something professionally.
57. Drucker, Practice of Management, p. 37.
58. See Drucker, The Practice of Management, pp. 35-36.