Is business ethics getting better? A historical perspective

Business Ethics Quarterly

Volumn 21, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 335-343

  Ciulla, Joanne B ^a  

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EID: 79955709619     PISSN: 1052150X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5840/beq201121219     Document Type: Review

References (35)

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4. Polybius, The Histories, trans. Robin Waterfield, ed. Brian McGing (New York: Oxford University Press, 2010), 410.
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11. Ibid., 65.
12. Ibid., 62.
13. Aristotle, Nichomachean Ethics, in The Complete Works of Aristotle: The Revised Oxford Translation, trans. W. D. Ross, ed. J. Barnes, vol. 2 (Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1984), 1996.
14. Ibid., 1997.
15. Marcus Tullius Cicero, De Officiis, trans. Harry G. Edinger (Indianapolis: The Library of Living Arts, 1974), 120.
16. Ibid., 58.
17. Ibid., 118.
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19. Jean Jacques Rousseau, "A Discourse on a Subject Proposed by the Academy of Dijon: What Is the Origin of Inequality among Men, and Is It Authorized by Natural Law?" The Social Contract and Discourses, trans. G. D. H. Cole (New York: E. P. Dutton, 1950).
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24. Charles McKay, Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds (New York: Barnes & Noble, 2002), 5.
25. Note that the Wharton School is the oldest business school in the U.S. It was established in 1881.
26. Jeffrey L. Cruikshank, A Delicate Experiment: The Harvard Business School from 1908-1945 (Boston: Harvard Business School Press, 1987), 155.
27. Ibid..
28. Ibid., 168.
29. Ibid..
30. Ibid..
31. See Harvard Business School Institutional Memory, 1958 and 1988: http://institutionalmemory.hbs. edu/topic/curriculum-and-courses.html.
32. Sean Silverthrone, "The Lessons of Business History: A Handbook," Harvard Business School: Working Knowledge, March 17, 2008, http://hbswk.hbs.edu/item/5849.html. In this interview Jones offers an eloquent explanation of the ways in which business history contributes to our understanding of business. Jones, a historian at HBS, also discusses the reasons why many business schools ignore business history. For an excellent source on business history, see his book: Geoffrey G. Jones and Jonathan Zeitlin, Oxford Handbook of Business History (New York: Oxford University Press, 2008).
33. Silverthrone, "The Lessons of Business History."
34. Chester I. Barnard, The Functions of the Executive: 30th Anniversary Edition (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1971), 239.
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