Business Ethics and Virtue

The article “Business ethics: A helpful hybrid in search of integrity.” is an example of a scholarly article. There are many reasons why it qualifies in this category. First, the author is not just a writer but a professional in the field of business ethics. Edmund Byrne is a professor of philosophy in Indiana University and he also acts as a section editor in the Journal of Business Ethics (Byrne, 2002). Second, the page design of these articles is plain. There are no pictures which are a common factor in the non-scholarly sources. The author has also used in text citations and a list of references (Byrne, 2002). Non scholarly sources do not feature citations or references. This article by Byrne (2002), contains content which are somewhat a summary of the results from other theorists in the field of business ethics. Therefore it aims towards sharing the information of research findings which specific individuals. This makes it a part of the scholarly articles. Lastly, the book is volume 37 issue 2. This shows that there have been a series of books written by the same person in the same area. The scholarly sources are the only one’s which are written in such a sequence.

The article “Business: The view from the top, and bottom; Corporate culture”, does not qualify as a scholarly source. First of all, it does not acknowledge its author (Business: The view from the top, and bottom; Corporate culture, 2011). All scholarly sources usually have the name of the author available and the person must be recognized as a professional. This article was published through a news publication, “The Economist”. Therefore, it was published for the sake of making profits and not because the author wanted to share specific information.

The article “A toy Maker’s Conscience” may not be categorized as a scholarly source mainly because it was obtained from New York Times magazine (Dee, 2007). Magazines are usually composed of articles which are written without proper research, and that is why they do not contain any form of in text citation or reference lists. The article is mainly composed of the writer’s opinion and not facts (Dee, 2007). Articles from magazines are usually modified to grab the attention of a reader and therefore promoting sales. This is done by including irrelevant material within the body of the article.

The Article by Sirsly (2009), entitled ““75 years of lessons learned: chief executive officer values and corporate social responsibility,” is a scholarly article. First of all, it has been published in a professional journal which offers to give researched information to interested people. The information inside is mainly a research based on the field of management (Sirsly, 2009). It lists the approach of the research, the findings as well as the implications.

The article entitled, “Corporation communication, ethics, and operational identity: a case study of Benetton”, is a scholarly article. First of all, the title itself can help explain what the content is. It is a case study performed in the field of business before it was published in an academic journal “Business Ethics”. It has been published in a sequence and that is why it is now volume 18, issue 3 (Borgerson, Schroeder, Escudero Magnusson, & Magnusson, 2009).

The article “Kantianism” is a scholarly source. Although it has been published in a website, the website itself does not promote advertisements unlike others (“Kantianism”, 2013). It is not that pictorial as it mainly features one photograph which acts as an illustration of the man behind the research. The article contains citations which are thereafter referenced at the end. The website usually targets academic students or researchers.

“The History of Utilitarianism” is a scholarly article published in an academic website. The content is properly referenced and the website is not highly pictorial (“The History of Utilitarianism”, 2009). It also does not feature advertisements.

References

“Business: The view from the top, and bottom; Corporate culture”. (2011). The Economist , 76-77.

“Kantianism”. (2013). Wikipedia. Retrieved from <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deontology#Kantianism>

“The History of Utilitarianism”. (2009). Stanford Encyclopedia of philosophy. Retrieved from <http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/utilitarianism-history/#JerBen>

Borgerson, J. L., Schroeder, J. E., Escudero Magnusson, M., & Magnusson, F. (2009). Corporate communication, ethics, and operational identity: a case study of Benetton. Business Ethics: A European Review, 18(3), 209-223. doi:10.1111/j.1467-8608.2009.01558.x

Byrne, E. F. (2002). Business Ethics: A Helpful Hybrid in Search of Integrity. Journal Of Business Ethics, 37(2), 121-133.

Dee, J. (2007). A Toy Maker’s Conscience. New York Times Magazine, 157(54167), 34-39.

Sirsly, C.-A. T. (2009). 75 years of lessons learned: chief executive officer values and corporate social responsibility. The Journal of Management History,15(1), 78.