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It may seem strange—possibly bizarre to some—to introduce an analysis of a business curricular problem with a quotation from one whose political philosophy was reprehensible, whose personal lifestyle was off-beat, and whose stylistic writings often deny full comprehension. Thus forewarned, consider, then, the level of Ezra Pound:
(To break the pentameter, that was the first heave)
From Modern Values in Business and Management: Proceedings from the 1979 AACSB Annual Meeting, prepared by Robert H. Bock, American Assembly of Collegiate Schools of Business, St. Louis, MO, 1979.
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Harold Berkman, “Corporate Ethics: Who Cares?” Report of the School of Business Administration (University of Miami, Spring 1979), p. 3.
Derek C. Bok, “Can Ethics Be Taught?” Change (October 1978), p. 7.
Rogene A. Buchholz, Business Environment and Public Policy: A Study of Teaching and Research in Schools of Business and Management (St. Louis: Washington University, February, 1979), pp. 88–90. Cited as the Buchholz Report. See also the earlier study by Thomas F. McMahon, Report on the Teaching of Socio-Ethical Issues in Collegiate Schools of Business/Public Administration (Charlottesville: University of Virginia, Center for the Study of Applied Ethics, 1975).
A report of the AACSB Educational Innovation Committee (December 5, 1975).
Edwin M. Epstein and Dow Votaw, Rationality, Legitimacy and Responsibility: Search for New Directions in Business and Society (Santa Monica, CA: Goodyear Publishing Company, 1978), P. xiii.
William Frederick, From CSR1 to CSR2: “The Maturity of Business-and-Society Thought.” Working Paper (Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Graduate School of Business, no date). See also Joseph McGuire, The Changing Nature of Business Responsibilities (Oklahoma State University: School of Business, 1978) and the author’s pioneering effort, Corporate Social Responsibilities (Belmont, CA: Wadsworth Publishing Company 1967).
Harold L. Johnson, Disclosure of Corporate Social Performance (New York: Praeger Publishers, 1979), p. 9.
Patrick Connor and Boris Becker, “Values in Organization: Suggestions for Research,” Academy of Management Journal XVIII (1975), p. 58.
Buchholz Report, p. 126.
Charles Schultze made this point explicitly in his Godkin Lecture at Harvard, “Public Use of Private Interest.” (November and December 1976.)
Karl Polanyi, The Transformation (New York: Farrar and Rinehart, 1944), especially Chapters 3–5 and 12–15, and Milton Friedman, Capitalism and Freedom (Chicago, University of Chicago Press, 1962).
Economy and Society (Glencoe, IL: The Free Press, 1956).
Robert Unger, Knowledge and Politics (New York: The Free Press, 1975), pp. 161, 163
Joseph Schumpeter, Capitalism, Socialism and Democracy (New York: Harper and Brothers, 1942).
David Reisman, “The Anti-Organization Syndrome,” Encounter (September 1978), pp. 52–68.
See William Chace, “Lionel Trilling: The Contrariness of Culture,” The American Scholar (Winter 1978–9), pp. 49–54.
Peter Berger, “Ethics and the New Class,” Washington: Georgetown University Center on Ethics and Public Policy (September 1978), p. 8.
Paul Weaver, “Regulations of the New Class,” Public Interest (Winter 1978), p. 54. See also Peter Steinfels, “The Reasonable Right,” Esquire (February 13, 1979) for a vignette of the “old” class.
Murray Weidenbaum, Government-Mandated Price Increases (Washington, D.C., The American Enterprise Institute, 1975).
George Cabot Lodge, “Managerial Implications of Ideological Change,” Chapter 2 in Clarence Walton, ed., The Ethics of Corporate Conduct (Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall, 1977).
Louis Kohlmeier, “Budge Balance? National Planning?” Financier (January 1979), pp. 6–10. Relevant, too, is James “Toole, “What’s Ahead for the Business Government Relationship,” Harvard Business Review (March–April 1979), pp. 94–105.
Arthur Miller and Lewis Solomon, “Chains on the Corporate Beast,” Business and Society Review (Fall, 1978), p. 8.
David Granick, “International Differences in Executive Reward Systems,” Columbia Journal of World Business (Summer 1978), pp. 45–50, and his impressive Manager Comparisons in Four Developed Countries (Cambridge: M.I.T. Press, 1972). See also Edward Epstein, “The Social Role of Business Enterprise in Britain: An American’s Perspective,” Journal of Management Studies (October 1976), pp. 210–233.
David Finn, The Corporate Oligarch (New York: Simon and Schuster, 1969).
Alfred North Whitehead, The Aims of Education (New York: Macmillan Co., 1978), p. 39.
Robert Kirk Mueller, Career Conflict (Lexington, Mass.: D.C. Health Co., 1978), p. 39.
Eli Ginzberg and Ivar Berg, Democratic Values and the Rights of Management (New York: Columbia University, Press, 1963).
Clarence C. Walton, Ethos and the Executive: Values in Managerial Decision-Making (Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall, 1969).
David Ewing, Freedom Inside the Organization: Bringing Civil Liberties to the Workingplace (New York: McGraw-Hill, 1979). See, for example, the special report on “Dissent in the Corporate World,” The Civil Liberties Review (September–October 1978). Professor Sissela Bok of the Harvard Medical Faculty is also working on this problem.
Charles Powers and David Vogel, “Teaching Business Ethics.’” Unpublished paper presented the Hasting Center Conference at Harvard University on April 14, 199.
Charles Fried, Right and Wrong (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1978), p. 7.
Peter Drucker, Management: Task, Responsibilities and Priorities (New York: Harper and Row, 1973), pp. 37–45.
Powers, loc. cit., p. 40.
Sebastian de Grazia, The Political Community: A Study of Anomie (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1943), p. 49.
Buchholz Report, pp. 89–90.
Daniel Callahan, “Qualifications for the Teaching of Ethics.” Paper presented to the Hastings Workshops, April 19–20, 1979. p. 1.
Ibid., p. 4
Lester Thurow, “Economics, 1977,” Daedalus (Fall, 1977), especially pp. 83–87.
Paul Ramsey, Ethics at the Edges of Life (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1978), p. xiii–xiv.
Jacques Maritain, Science and Wisdom (New York: Schribners, 1960).
Edmund Pellegrino, “Ethics and the Moral Center of the Medieval Enterprise,” Bulletin of the New York Academy of Medievalism Vol. 54 (July–August 1978), p. 62.
Fried, op. cit., p. 10.
David Daube, “Greek and Roman Definitions of Impossible Laws,” The Natural Law Forum Vol. 12 (1967), p. 1.
John Kleinig, “Good Samaritanism,” Philosophy in Public Affairs Vol. 5 (1976), pp. 17–20.
“The New Rationalism and Its Implications for Understanding Corporations,” in Epstein and Votaw, Rationality, Legitimacy and Responsibility, pp. 65–66.
The Critique of Pure Reason (New York: Doubleday and Co., 1961), 2nd ed., pp. 177–178. Translated by N.K. Smith.
Idem.
Derek Bok, loc. cit., p. 27.
Jacques Barzun, “Humanities, Pieties, Practicalities in Universities,” (New York: Columbia University Seminar Report, November 14, 1973), p. 31.
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Walton, C. (1998). To Break the Pentameter—Ethics Courses Implications for Business Education. In: Duska, R.F. (eds) Education, Leadership and Business Ethics. Issues in Business Ethics, vol 11. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-585-27624-3_9
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