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Handbook of Virtue Ethics in Business and Management pp 59–67Cite as

MacIntyre’s Influence on Business Ethics

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Abstract

Business ethics scholars have made much use of Alasdair MacIntyre’s distinctive account of the virtues. This chapter discusses MacIntyre’s influence and considers four distinctive types of enquiry inspired by his seminal 1981 text After Virtue. These comprise:

  1. (i)

    The moral status of the manager

  2. (ii)

    The application of MacIntyre’s notion of practice in business

  3. (iii)

    The relationship between practices and institutions

  4. (iv)

    Empirical enquiry using MacIntyre’s “goods-virtues-practices-institutions” framework

The remaining chapters in this section exemplify these enquiries.

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  1. City Campus East, Newcastle Business School, Northumbria University, NE1 8ST, Newcastle upon Tyne, UK

    Ron Beadle

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  1. School of Economics and Business Administration, University of Navarra, Pamplona, Spain

    Alejo José G. Sison

  2. Department of Philosophy, Saint Louis University , St. Louis, Missouri, USA

    Gregory R. Beabout

  3. School of Economics and Business Administration, Business Department, University of Navarra, Pamploma, Spain

    Ignacio Ferrero

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Beadle, R. (2017). MacIntyre’s Influence on Business Ethics. In: Sison, A., Beabout, G., Ferrero, I. (eds) Handbook of Virtue Ethics in Business and Management. International Handbooks in Business Ethics. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-6510-8_2

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