Quaker business ethics as MacIntyrean tradition

Burton, N. and Sinnicks, M. (2022) Quaker business ethics as MacIntyrean tradition. Journal of Business Ethics, 176 (3). pp. 507-518. ISSN 1573-0697 doi: 10.1007/s10551-020-04706-y

Abstract/Summary

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.

Item Type	Article
URI	https://reading-clone.eprints-hosting.org/id/eprint/98456
Identification Number/DOI	10.1007/s10551-020-04706-y
Refereed	Yes
Divisions	Henley Business School > Leadership, Organisations and Behaviour
Publisher	Springer
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