MacIntyre, neo-Aristotelianism and organization theory

Beadle, Ron; Moore, Geoff

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“…One advantage of the UK study was that it was able to trace the historical development of the organization as, first, two separate organizations (Boots and Alliance Unichem), then as a merged organization (Alliance Boots), and finally after the organization had been taken over by a private equity firm. While such mapping over time might well be of interest to a particular organization by way of organizational analysis (Beadle and Moore, 2011), it is clearly not essential to using the mapping to identify the current position and likely future direction of an organization. Moreover, the mapping may be used to compare the locations and directions of different organizations -a point to which we will return.…”

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“…The focus of this paper is on neo-Aristotelian virtue ethics, and within this field contributions based on the work of the moral philosopher Alasdair MacIntyre have established a prominent place (Moore and Beadle, 2006;Beadle and Moore, 2011). This has led to a number of conceptual and empirical papers which either draw on or are more specifically situated within the conceptual framework MacIntyre offers (Beadle, 2013;Crockett, 2005;Van de Ven, 2011;Von Krogh, Haefliger, Spaeth and Wallin, 2012, for example).…”

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MacIntyrean Virtue Ethics in Business: A Cross-Cultural Comparison

Fernando

Moore

2014

J Bus Ethics

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This paper seeks to establish whether the categories of MacIntyrean virtue ethics as applied to business organizations are meaningful in a non-western business context. It does so by building on research reported in Moore (Organ Stud, 33(3): 363-387, 2012) in which the application of virtue ethics to business organizations was investigated empirically in the UK, based on a conceptual framework drawn from MacIntyre's work (After Virtue 2007). Comparing these results with an equivalent study in Sri Lanka, the paper finds that the categories are meaningful but that there are both similarities to and considerable differences in the content of these categories from the UK study. The paper draws on aspects of institutional theory to explore and explain these findings. Overall, there is supportive evidence that the categories of MacIntyrean virtue ethics are generalizable, and so can be used to characterize problems of organizational virtue and vice around the world, while providing evidence that there may be polities which are more conducive to the 'practice-like conduct of production' (Keat, Philos Manag, 7(1): 77-91, 2008). Comparing these results with an equivalent study in Sri Lanka, the paper finds that the categories are meaningful but that there are both similarities to and considerable differences in the content of these categories from the UK study. The paper draws on aspects of institutional theory to explore and explain these findings.Overall, there is supportive evidence that the categories of MacIntyrean virtue ethics are generalizable, and so can be used to characterise problems of organizational virtue and vice around the world, while providing evidence that there may be polities which are more conducive to the 'practice-like conduct of production ' (Keat, 2008).2

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MacIntyrean Virtue Ethics in Business: A Cross-Cultural Comparison

Fernando

Moore

2014

J Bus Ethics

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“…This is however to undertake social enquiry in a way that is quite distinct from that of value-free social science (Achtemeier 1994) and shares much with research methods associated with the hermeneutic tradition which seeks to disclose the narrative self-understandings of agents (Beadle and Moore 2011). It is important that data analysis distinguishes between the subjects" self-understanding and the researchers" interpretive set, in this case that of MacIntyre"s "goods-virtues-practicesinstitutions" framework.…”

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“…Cases vary widely between practiceembodying institutions (MacIntyre 1994, p.290) in which wise leadership (Schwartz and Sharp 2010) attends to the sustainable achievement of goods internal to practices and those in which virtue requires courageous resistance to vicious purposes (Conroy 2010). Where institutions have corrupted practices, resistance may be manifest in some cases by the establishment of alternative institutional forms (Krogh et al 2012), in others by whistleblowers (Beadle and Moore, 2011) or by trade unionists and community organisers (MacIntyre, 2008) as:…”

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Managerial Work in a Practice-Embodying Institution: The Role of Calling, The Virtue of Constancy

Beadle

2013

J Bus Ethics

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This document may differ from the final, published version of the research and has been made available online in accordance with publisher policies. To read and/or cite from the published version of the research, please visit the publisher's website (a subscription may be required.)1 Managerial work in a practice-embodying institution -The role of calling, the virtue of constancy. ABSTRACTWhat can be learned from a small scale study of managerial work in a highly marginal and under-researched working community? This paper uses the "goods-virtues-practicesinstitutions" framework to examine the managerial work of owner-directors of traditional circuses. Inspired by MacIntyre"s arguments for the necessity of a narrative understanding of the virtues, interviews explored how British and Irish circus directors accounted for their working lives. A purposive sample was used to select subjects who had owned and managed traditional touring circuses for at least 15 years, a period in which the economic and reputational fortunes of traditional circuses have suffered badly. This sample enabled the research to examine the self-understanding of people who had, at least on the face of it, exhibited the virtue of constancy. The research contributes to our understanding of the role of the virtues in organizations by presenting evidence of an intimate relationship between the virtue of constancy and a "calling" work orientation. This enhances our understanding of the virtues that are required if management is exercised as a domain-related practice.

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“…However, the body of work encompassing the application of MacIntyrean virtue ethics to business organisations has gone further to identify a more prescriptive approach. 78 It is to this that we now turn, leaving a consideration of whether CST would wish to similarly draw on this approach to the conclusions which follow.…”

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Catholic Social Teaching and the Firm

Moore¹,

Beadle

Rowlands³

2014

American Catholic Philosophical Quarterly

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. (2014) 'Catholic social teaching and the rm. Crowding in virtue : a MacIntyrean approach to business ethics.', American Catholic philosophical quarterly., 88 (4). pp. 779-805. Further information on publisher's website:http://dx.doi.org/10.5840/acpq201491830Publisher's copyright statement:Additional information: Use policyThe 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. Catholic Social Teaching and the Firm. Crowding in Virtue: a MacIntyrean Approach to Business Ethics Geoff Moore, Ron Beadle and Anna RowlandsAbstract.Catholic Social Teaching (CST) aspires to an economy that serves needs, upholds justice and inculcates subsidiarity. But it suffers from a significant omission-it fails to look "inside" the business organisations that comprise the fundamental building blocks of the economic system. It is therefore ill-equipped to suggest how businesses could be reformed to meet these aspirations. MacIntyre"s Thomistic Aristotelian account of the relationships between goods, virtues, practices and institutions provides resources which could enable CST to overcome this lacuna.This paper describes the MacIntyrean account and compares it with CST"s existing categories. It then analyses the case of the Lloyds Banking Group. This allows not only diagnosis but potentially a prescriptive account of how virtue may be "crowded-in" to business organisations. The paper concludes by suggesting that this approach might make a distinctive contribution to CST, and hence enable CST to make an even more significant contribution to business ethics.

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MacIntyre, neo-Aristotelianism and organization theory

Cited by 40 publications

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MacIntyrean Virtue Ethics in Business: A Cross-Cultural Comparison

MacIntyrean Virtue Ethics in Business: A Cross-Cultural Comparison

Managerial Work in a Practice-Embodying Institution: The Role of Calling, The Virtue of Constancy

Catholic Social Teaching and the Firm

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