Could We Know a Practice-Embodying Institution if We Saw One?

Coe, Samantha; Beadle, Ron

doi:10.5840/pom2008713

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“…First, it suggests that tracing the development of corporate virtues, and hence of corporate character, over time, including through significant events, is fundamental. As such, it may set certain limits on appropriate methodological approaches (see Coe & Beadle : 10). Second, it proposes a set of corporate virtues which need to be verified empirically using appropriate methods.…”

Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Corporate character, corporate virtues

Moore

2015

Bus Ethics Eur Rev

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This paper extends previous discussions of corporate character and corporate virtues. By drawing particularly on the work of Alasdair MacIntyre, it offers a perspective on context‐dependent categories of the virtues. It then provides a philosophically grounded framework which enables a discussion of which virtues are required for business organizations to qualify as virtuous. It offers a preliminary taxonomy of such corporate virtues and provides a revised definition of corporate character.

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Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Corporate character, corporate virtues

Moore

2015

Bus Ethics Eur Rev

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“…While Coe and Beadle (2008) identify a range of methods appropriate for 'doing empirics' with MacIntyre's conceptual framework, an emphasis on 'thick descriptions' created through narrative is evident (Beadle & Moore, 2011). Unsurprisingly, therefore, the case study method emerges as perhaps the most appropriate approach for exploring virtue in business organizations, as is evident in the limited number of studies to date which employ an overtly MacIntyrean framework.…”

Section: The Virtuous Business Organizationmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Unsurprisingly, therefore, the case study method emerges as perhaps the most appropriate approach for exploring virtue in business organizations, as is evident in the limited number of studies to date which employ an overtly MacIntyrean framework. Examples include studies in the oil industry (Crockett, 2005), the circus (Beadle & Könyöt, 2006), and of organizations such as Traidcraft (the leading Fair Trade organization in the UK - , The Sage Gateshead (a large multifunction music facility in the north east of England - Coe & Beadle, 2008) and a revised analysis of the Bristol Royal Infirmary case (Weick & Sutcliffe, 2003) from a MacIntyrean perspective (Beadle & Moore, 2011). This paper builds on these studies but most particularly on Crockett's work as being the closest to the context and methodology of this study.…”

Section: The Virtuous Business Organizationmentioning

confidence: 99%

Virtue in Business: Alliance Boots and an Empirical Exploration of MacIntyre’s Conceptual Framework

Moore

2012

Organization Studies

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The full-text may be used and/or reproduced, and given to third parties in any format or medium, without prior permission or charge, for personal research or study, educational, or not-for-prot purposes provided that:• a full bibliographic reference is made to the original source • a link is made to the metadata record in DRO • the full-text is not changed in any way The full-text must not be sold in any format or medium without the formal permission of the copyright holders.Please consult the full DRO policy for further details. This paper contextualises before summarising a conceptual framework for virtue ethics in organizations that has been developed by drawing upon the work of the moral philosopher Alasdair MacIntyre. Conducting empirical work with this framework is at an embryonic stage and so, having discussed methodological issues, the paper reports on findings from a longitudinal case study-based research project into the private equity owned organization Alliance Boots. It demonstrates the applicability of the conceptual approach and hence the presence of practices and virtues even within capitalist business organisations. It makes theoretical advances particularly in the relationship between internal and external goods. It proposes a mapping for virtue in organizations and uses this to conduct an organizational analysis of Alliance Boots and its predecessor organizations. The paper thus makes both theoretical and empirical contributions to our knowledge in the area of applied virtue ethics.

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“…When we consider the empirical work that has specifically cited MacIntyre as its inspiration an emphasis on 'thick descriptions' created through narrative is evident. These include Smith (1999), Dunne (1993) and Erben (2000) in education studies, Williams' (1984) biographical narratives with the chronically sick, Coe's biographical narratives exploring conflicts between goods at a major music venue (Coe & Beadle 2008), Crockett's (2008) Some of this work promises empirical applications of a distinctively MacIntyrean organization theory. How would such a theory work and what does it offer organization studies?…”

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confidence: 99%