TY - JOUR
T1 - Quaker Business Ethics as MacIntyrean Tradition
AU - Burton, Nicholas
AU - Sinnicks, Matthew
PY - 2022/3/1
Y1 - 2022/3/1
N2 - This paper argues that Quaker business ethics can be understood as a MacIntyrean tradition. To do so, it draws on three key MacIntyrean concepts: community, compartmentalisation, and the critique of management. The emphasis in Quaker business ethics on finding unity, as well as the emphasis that Quaker businesses have placed on serving their local areas, accords with MacIntyre’s claim that small-scale community is essential to human flourishing. The emphasis on integrity in Quaker business ethics means practitioners are well-placed to resist the compartmentalising pressures of contemporary work. Quaker business ethics is also highly critical of the manipulative forms of management that MacIntyre regards as dominant. As such, Quaker business ethics provides evidence that more morally ameliorative forms of running business organisations is possible, even if they remain difficult to achieve.
AB - This paper argues that Quaker business ethics can be understood as a MacIntyrean tradition. To do so, it draws on three key MacIntyrean concepts: community, compartmentalisation, and the critique of management. The emphasis in Quaker business ethics on finding unity, as well as the emphasis that Quaker businesses have placed on serving their local areas, accords with MacIntyre’s claim that small-scale community is essential to human flourishing. The emphasis on integrity in Quaker business ethics means practitioners are well-placed to resist the compartmentalising pressures of contemporary work. Quaker business ethics is also highly critical of the manipulative forms of management that MacIntyre regards as dominant. As such, Quaker business ethics provides evidence that more morally ameliorative forms of running business organisations is possible, even if they remain difficult to achieve.
KW - Management
KW - Compartmentalisation
KW - Community
KW - MacIntyre
KW - Quakers
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85100124220&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1007/s10551-020-04706-y
DO - 10.1007/s10551-020-04706-y
M3 - Article
VL - 176
SP - 507
EP - 518
JO - Journal of Business Ethics
JF - Journal of Business Ethics
SN - 0167-4544
IS - 3
ER -