TY - JOUR
T1 - MacIntyre on virtue and organization
AU - Beadle, Ron
AU - Moore, Geoff
N1 - Selected for Special issue: In Search of Organizational Virtue: Moral Agency in Organizations, Editor: R.P. Nielson. The first systematic literature review of the development and reception of Macintyre’s thought on virtue and organizations. Cited in a further leading review of MacIntyre’s work (Knight, 2007).
PY - 2006/1
Y1 - 2006/1
N2 - This paper introduces the work of moral philosopher Alasdair MacIntyre in the area of virtue and organization. It aims to provide one point of entry to MacIntyre’s work for readers who have not been introduced to it and makes some novel suggestions about its development for those who have. Following some initial comments on MacIntyre’s approach to social science, it traces the development of his ideas on organization from 1953 to 1980, before outlining the general theory of virtues, goods, practices and institutions which emerged in the publication of his seminal After Virtue in 1981. Finally, the paper outlines some of the uses to which these ideas have been put in the organizational literature.
AB - This paper introduces the work of moral philosopher Alasdair MacIntyre in the area of virtue and organization. It aims to provide one point of entry to MacIntyre’s work for readers who have not been introduced to it and makes some novel suggestions about its development for those who have. Following some initial comments on MacIntyre’s approach to social science, it traces the development of his ideas on organization from 1953 to 1980, before outlining the general theory of virtues, goods, practices and institutions which emerged in the publication of his seminal After Virtue in 1981. Finally, the paper outlines some of the uses to which these ideas have been put in the organizational literature.
U2 - 10.1177/0170840606062425
DO - 10.1177/0170840606062425
M3 - Article
VL - 27
SP - 323
EP - 340
JO - Organization Studies
JF - Organization Studies
SN - 0170-8406
IS - 3
ER -