Cambridge Handbook of Research Approaches to Business Ethics and Corporate Responsibility

Patricia H. Werhane is the Wicklander Chair Emerita at DePaul University, Chicago, and Ruffin Professor Emerita at the University of Virginia. She is the founding editor of Business Ethics Quarterly, a Rockefeller Fellow at Dartmouth College, New Hampshire,, Visiting Professor at the University of Cambridge, and Erskine Visiting Fellow at the University of Canterbury. In 2008 she was listed as one of the 100 most influential people in business ethics by Ethisphere Magazine. She is the author or editor of over twenty-five books, including Obstacles to Ethical Decision-Making (Cambridge, 2014) and Corporate Responsibility (Cambridge, 2012), as well as Moral Imagination and Management Decision-Making (1999). She is also the co-producer of an Emmy award-winning documentary series, Big Questions. R. Edward Freeman is Elis and Signe Olsson Professor of Business Administration at the Darden School of Business, and a Senior Fellow at the Olsson Center for Applied Ethics and Academic Director of the Business Roundtable Institute for Corporate Ethics. In March 2010, the University of Virginia's Board of Visitors named Freeman as a University Professor, the first faculty member in the Darden School's history given this rare honor. At its 2010 annual meeting, the Society for Business Ethics presented Professor Freeman with its 'Outstanding Contributions to Scholarship Award' for his stakeholder theory work, to which there has currently been more than 50,000 citations. Ed Freeman also serves as co-editor in chief of the Journal of Business Ethics. His latest books include, Bridging the Values Gap (2015) and Stakeholder Theory: The State of the Art (Cambridge, 2010). Freeman may be best known for his award-winning book Strategic Management: A Stakeholder Approach (Cambridge, 2010) originally published in 1984 and reprinted in 2010. Sergiy Dmytriyev is pursuing a doctorate in Management at the Darden School of Business, the University of Virginia. His research interests include supererogation in organizations, stakeholder engagement and responsibility, company success, value from disagreements, and meaning in life. Prior to working at the Darden School, he worked for Procter and Gamble, Bain and Company, and Monsanto in Eastern Europe. As a management consultant at Bain, he conducted multiple projects on strategy development, transformation, and organization redesign for clients in the financial services, airline, oil and gas, FMCG, and real estate industries.

• Introduction; Part I: Philosophical Approaches; Historical Approaches: 1. The use of historical figures as a research approach Patricia H. Werhane, R. Edward Freeman and Sergiy Dmytriyev; 2. History as methodology in business ethics: lessons from Aristotle Edwin M. Hartman; 3. The role of continental philosophy in business ethics research Mollie Painter Morland; Normative Approaches; 4. Research in normative business ethics: a coherence approach Richard T. De George; 5. The universalist approach and Kant in business ethics Norman E. Bowie; Part II. Empirical Approaches; Qualitative Approaches: 6. Normative assessments in empirical business ethics research: toward a methodological bridge across the ontological gap Sarah Margaretha Jastram and Damian Bäumlisberger; 7. Descriptive ethics: a neglected methodological domain in business and applied ethics Wesley Cragg; 8. Grounded theory in business ethics David Bevan and Angelo Carlo S. Carrascoso; 9. Discourse analysis as a method for business ethics and corporate responsibility research Anna Heikkinen, Johanna Kujala, Matias Laine and Hannele Mäkelä; Quantitative and Experimental Approaches; 10. Quantitative content analysis as a method for business ethics research Irina Lock and Peter Seele; 11. Experiments in business ethics Helet Botha; Contemporary Approaches; 12. Mixed methodologies, full-cycle research and the shortcomings of behavioral ethics Scott Sonenshein and Katherine DeCelles; 13. Applying neuroscience to business ethics Filomena Sabatella, Nicola Pless and Thomas Maak; 14. Wide reflective equilibrium as a case-based research approach to business ethics Patricia H. Werhane; Case Study Approaches; 15. Casuistry as a case-based research approach to business ethics Martin Calkins; 16. Building on actor-network analysis to study corporate social responsibility: conceptual and methodological insights Jean-Pascal Gond and Marion Ligonie; Part III. A Researcher in the Spotlight: 17. Social construction as background for research in business ethics John J. Pirri and Patricia H. Werhane; 18. A pragmatist approach to business ethics research Bidhan L. Parmar, Robert Phillips and R. Edward Freeman; 19. Rethinking right: moral epistemology in management research Tae Wan Kim and Thomas Donaldson; 20. Another view from China: Daoist thought as an approach to global business ethics Kathleen M. Higgins.

'This Handbook provides a much-needed holistic overview of the various research methods available to business ethicists. The book's focus on methods tailored to the normative character of the business ethics discipline makes it especially valuable. New and established ethics scholars alike will appreciate the Handbook's comprehensiveness.' Daryl Koehn, Wicklander Chair in Professional Ethics, DePaul Univeristy, Chicago