A MacIntyrian perspective on organizational learning

Halliday, John; Johnsson, Mary C.

doi:10.1177/1350507609347589

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“…For MacIntyre, managers act on behalf of institutions and are primarily concerned with increasing external goods. Yet, the pursuit of external goods clearly does not preclude some kind of balance between internal and external goods (Halliday and Johnsson 2010). In our reading, MacIntyre is overly pessimistic about management's ability to achieve this balance.…”

Section: Critique and Exegesismentioning

confidence: 80%

Carrots and Rainbows: Motivation and Social Practice in Open Source Software Development

Krogh¹,

Haefliger²,

Spaeth³

et al. 2012

MIS Quarterly

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software (OSS) is a social and economic phenomenon that raises fundamental questions about the motivations of contributors to information systems development. Some developers are unpaid volunteers who seek to solve their own technical problems, while others create OSS as part of their employment contract. For the past 10 years, a substantial amount of academic work has theorized about and empirically examined developer motivations. We review this work and suggest considering motivation in terms of the values of the social practice in which developers participate. Based on the social philosophy of Alasdair MacIntyre, we construct a theoretical framework that expands our assumptions about individual motivation to include the idea of a long-term, value-informed quest beyond short-term rewards. This motivation-practice framework depicts how the social practice and its supporting institutions mediate between individual motivation and outcome. The framework contains three theoretical conjectures that seek to explain how collectively elaborated standards of excellence prompt developers to produce high-quality software, change institutions, and sustain OSS development. From the framework, we derive six concrete propositions and suggest a new research agenda on motivation in OSS.

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Section: Critique and Exegesismentioning

confidence: 80%

Carrots and Rainbows: Motivation and Social Practice in Open Source Software Development

Krogh¹,

Haefliger²,

Spaeth³

et al. 2012

MIS Quarterly

530

365

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“…The tendency to avarice in capitalist business threatened the integrity of character and community flourishing. Influenced by Moore, other authors who made extensive use of MacIntyre's practice-institution distinction included Dawson (2009) and Halliday & Johnsson (2009).…”

Section: The Practice-institution Distinctionmentioning

confidence: 99%

A quantitative analysis of authors, schools and themes in virtue ethics articles in business ethics and management journals (1980–2011)

2014

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Virtue ethics is generally recognized as one of the three major schools of ethics, but is often waylaid by utilitarianism and deontology in business and management literature. EBSCO and ABI databases were used to look for articles in the Journal of Citation Reports publications between 1980 and 2011 containing the keywords 'virtue ethics ', 'virtue theory', or 'virtuousness' in the abstract and 'business' or 'management' in the text. The search was refined to draw lists of the most prolific authors, the most cited authors, the most cited articles, and the journals with the most virtue ethics publications. This information allows one to chart how virtue ethics articles have evolved through the decades and to establish 'schools' or clusters of authors as well as clusters of themes. The results of this quantitative analysis of authors, 'schools', themes, and publications provide a foundation for the future study of virtue ethics in business and management, identifying its achievements and potentials.bs_bs_banner

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“…The virtue perspective applied to business posits that the character of a moral agent is infused with virtuous qualities and strengths that are inherently good, for example, confidence, courage, humanity, justice, optimism, resilience, temperance, transcendence, and wisdom (Dutton, Roberts, & Bednar, 2010). Mutual dependence in business organizations, as in any other social group involves generosity towards others (Halliday & Johnson, 2009), moreover trustworthiness, sympathy, and fairness can serve to maintain and enhance organizations' reputations, and create business opportunities and thereby be pursuant of both intrinsic and instrumental ends (Maitland, 1997).…”

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Before Virtue: Biology, Brain, Behavior, and the “Moral Sense”

Sadler‐Smith

2012

Bus. Ethics Q.

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Biological, brain, and behavioral sciences offer strong and growing support for the virtue ethics account of moral judgment and ethical behavior in business organizations. The acquisition of moral agency in business involves the recognition, refinement, and habituation through the processes of reflexion and reflection of a moral sense encapsulated in innate modules for compassion, hierarchy, reciprocity, purity, and affiliation adaptive for communal life both in ancestral and modern environments. The genetic and neural bases of morality exist independently of institutional frameworks and social structures. The latter not only shape moral behaviors within circumscribed limits, they also imply a plurality and compartmentalization of roles which may enable or impede the habituation of virtue. Becoming a virtuous agent entails the practical refinement of predispositions in situ as a member of a community of practitioners rather than entailing a normative ethical educational project seeking an intellectual resolution of abstract moral questions.

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A MacIntyrian perspective on organizational learning

Cited by 21 publications

References 43 publications

Carrots and Rainbows: Motivation and Social Practice in Open Source Software Development

Carrots and Rainbows: Motivation and Social Practice in Open Source Software Development

A quantitative analysis of authors, schools and themes in virtue ethics articles in business ethics and management journals (1980–2011)

Before Virtue: Biology, Brain, Behavior, and the “Moral Sense”

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