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The Ruffin Series in Business Ethics

R. Edward Freeman, Series Editor
 
These peer-reviewed volumes contain a selection of papers presented at the Ruffin Lectures in Business Ethics, a nationally recognized seminar now held every two years at the Darden Graduate School of Business Administration at the University of Virginia. These lectures bring together experts with different perspectives to explore particular topic in business ethics and each published volume is organized around the main theme of the discussions. The purpose of the Ruffin Series is to make the scholarly work of these events more accessible to both the academic community and ethics practitioners. The lectures and the series are sponsored by the Ruffin Foundation and the University of Virginia's Olsson Center of Applied Ethics, an international leader in the field of business ethics. Each volume is published on behalf of the Society for Business Ethics and the Darden School by the Philosophy Documentation Center.

The Ruffin Series in Business Ethics is indexed in ABI/INFORM, Business Source Complete, Current Contents/Social & Behavioral Sciences, PAIS International, and Philosopher's Index. Published authors include George Brenkert, Edwin M. Hartman, Richard Rorty, Sankaran Venkataraman, Deborah Vidaver-Cohen, Patricia Werhane, Andrew Wicks, and Donna J. Wood. Electronic access is provided through ABI/INFORM, Business Source Complete, and POIESIS: Philosophy Online Serials. For customers with limited access to the Internet the first three volumes of the Ruffin Series are available on CD-ROM along with 48 issues of Business Ethics Quarterly - the journal of the Society for Business Ethics. This fully searchable CD-ROM provides an excellent introduction to the study of business ethics and includes much of the work that has defined the field.
 
"The Ruffin Series is the primary source of leading edge, in-depth treatments of important current topics in business ethics." -- Thomas W. Dunfee, The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania
 
"The Ruffin Series continues to produce the premier publications in business ethics." -- Robert C. Solomon, Department of Philosophy, University of Texas at Austin
 
"The Ruffin lectures always push the frontier in business ethics research. The organizers always succeed in having speakers in areas that are not obviously associated with business and as a result moves the discipline in a way that toward comprehensive and general knowledge and away from narrow specialization." -- Norman E. Bowie, Carlson School of Management, University of Minnesota

Business, Science, and Ethics - The Ruffin Series, Volume 4
R. Edward Freeman and Patricia H. Werhane, Editors
· ISBN 1-889680-36-2 · Published March 2004 · Softbound · 316 pages · Institutions $40 · Individuals $20

This highly original work combines the ideas of business ethics with the perspectives of biology, evolution and evolutionary psychology. It develops the view that business ethicists have much to learn from the sciences about the processes of value creation and trade. Jessica Flack and Frans de Waal suggest that the origins of morality can be found in our evolutionary cousins, non-human primates. Paul Lawrence suggests that the human sense of morality is innate, or has evolved over a long period of time, and fulfills our need to bond with and care for others. Leda Cosmides and John Tooby argue that evolutionary psychology can be useful for understanding business ethics in its account of "cheater detection," participation in collective action, and the social construction of groups. William Frederick suggests that we come to see firms as natural phenomena. Also included are papers by Edwin Hartman, Joshua Margolis, Robert Solomon, Timothy Fort, David Messick, Saras Sarasvathy, Mollie Painter-Morland, Sandra Waddock, Joseph DesJardins, Ronald Mitchell, and Tara Radin.

Ethics and Entrepreneurship - The Ruffin Series, Volume 3
R. Edward Freeman and Sankaran Venkataraman, Editors
· ISBN 1-889680-24-9 · Published March 2002 · 246 pages · Institutions $40 · Individuals $20

In this volume top scholars in entrepreneurship and business ethics address the connection between entrepreneurship and ethics, and delve into the very heart of capitalism. If value creation and trade is at the center of the human activity known as business what is the role of ethics in that activity? George Brenkert leads with an overview of the ethical issues in entrepreneurship. S. Venkataraman argues that one of the main business ethics frameworks, stakeholder theory, is incomplete without paying attention to the equilibrating forces of entrepreneurship. Donna Wood and Jeanne Logsdon suggest that corporate citizenship plays a key role in understanding these issues. Other authors include Saras Sarasvarthy, Daniel R. Gilbert Jr., Ramakrishna Velamuri, Jeffrey Harrison, Dean Shepherd, Steven Michael, Sandra Waddock, Robbin Derry, Martin Calkins, Brad Brown, and Richard Nielsen.

Environmental Challenges to Business - The Ruffin Series, Volume 2
Joel Reichart & Patricia H. Werhane, Editors
· ISBN 0-9679369-0-X · Published March 2000 · 249 pages · Institutions $40 · Individuals $20
 
This volume contains the 1997 Ruffin Lectures in Business Ethics delivered at the University of Virginia's Darden School of Business. These essays point to fresh thinking about environmental challenges to business on both local and global levels, and show that environmental thinking and ecological considerations are in the mainstream of management policies and corporate decision-making.

New Approaches to Business Ethics - The Ruffin Series, Volume 1
Patricia H. Werhane, Editor
· Published 1998 · 189 pages · Institutions $40 · Individuals $20
 
This volume contains a selection of the papers from the 1994 Ruffin Lectures in Business Ethics, delivered at the University of Virginia's Darden School of Business. These essays present a current overview of business ethics as a discipline, and argue in support of the further development of this area of study in a number of different directions.

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Volume 4: Business, Science, and Ethics

R. Edward Freeman and Patricia H. Werhane, Editors
· ISBN 1-889680-36-2 · Published March 2004 · 316 pages

  1. R. Edward Freeman and Patricia H. Werhane, Introduction
  2. Jessica C. Flack and Frans B. M. de Waal, "Monkey Business and Business Ethics: Evolutionary Origins of Human Morality"
  3. Joshua Margolis, "Responsibility, Inconsistency, and the Paradoxes of Morality in Human Nature"
  4. Robert C. Solomon, "Sympathy as a 'Natural' Sentiment"
  5. Paul R. Lawrence, "The Biological Base of Morality?"
  6. Timothy L. Fort, "A Deal, A Dolphin, and a Rock: Biological Contributions to Business Ethics"
  7. Leda Cosmides and John Tooby, "Knowing Thyself: The Evolutionary Psychology of Moral Reasoning and Moral Sentiments"
  8. David M. Messick, "Human Nature and Business Ethics"
  9. Saras D. Sarasvathy, "Founding Moral Reasoning on Evolutionary Psychology: A Critique and an Alternative"
  10. William C. Frederick, "The Evolutionary Firm and Its Moral (Dis)Contents"
  11. Mollie Painter-Morland, "The Possibility of Moral Responsibility Within Corporations as Complex Systems"
  12. Sandra A. Waddock, "A Developmental and Systemic Perspective on Frederick's 'The Evolutionary Firm and Its Moral (Dis)Contents'"
  13. Edwin M. Hartman, "De Rerum Natura"
  14. Lisa Newton, "Can Science Tell Us What is Right?"
  15. Robert A. Phillips, "Brief Remarks on the Evolutionary Method"
  16. Joseph DesJardins, "Explanation and Justification: The Relevance of the Biological and Social Sciences to Business Ethics"
  17. Ronald K. Mitchell, "Evolutionary Biology Research, Entrepreneurship, and the Morality of Security-Seeking Behavior in an Imperfect Economy"
  18. Tara J. Radin, "To Propagate and to Prosper: A Naturalistic Foundation for Stakeholder Theory"

Volume 3: Ethics and Entrepreneurship

R. Edward Freeman and Sankaran Venkataraman, Editors
· ISBN 1-889680-24-9 · Published March 2002 · 246 pages

  1. R. Edward Freeman and Sankaran Venkataraman, Introduction
  2. George Brenkert, "Entrepreneurship, Ethics and the Good Society"
  3. Sankaran Venkataraman, "Stakeholder Value Equilibration and the Entrepreneurial Process"
  4. Donna J. Wood and Jeanne M. Logsdon, "Business Citizenship: From Individuals to Organizations"
  5. Saras D. Sarasvathy, "Entrepreneurship as Economics with Imagination"
  6. Daniel R. Gilbert, Jr., "Ethics, Management, and the Existentialist Entrepreneur"
  7. S. Ramakrishna Velamuri, "Entrepreneurship, Altruism and the Good Society"
  8. Jeffrey S. Harrison, "A Stakeholder Perspective of Entrepreneurial Activity: Beyond Normative Theory"
  9. Dean A. Shepherd, "Stakeholder Value Equilibration, Disequilibration and the Entrepreneurial Process"
  10. Steven C. Michael, "Time to Discovery: The Role of Time in the Entrepreneurial Discovery Process"
  11. Sandra Waddock, "A Commentary on 'Stakeholder Value Equilibration and the Entrepreneurial Process'"
  12. Robbin Derry, "Seeking a Balance: A Critical Perspective on Entrepreneurship and the Good Society"
  13. Martin Calkins, "Silicon Valley's Next Generation of Entrepreneurs"
  14. Brad Brown, "Entrepreneurship and Ethics in the Chinese Context"
  15. Richard P. Nielsen, "Business Citizenship and United States 'Investor Capitalism': A Critical Analysis"

Volume 2: Environmental Challenges to Business

Joel Reichart and Patricia H. Werhane, Editors
· ISBN 0-9679369-0-X · Published March 2000 · 249 pages

  1. Patricia H. Werhane and Joel Reichart, Introduction
  2. Carolyn Merchant, "Partnership Ethics: Business and the Environment"
  3. George Brenkert, "Partners, Business and the Environment"
  4. Paul Shrivastava, "Ecocentering Strategic Management"
  5. Laura Westra, "Integrating the Social Contract and the Ecological Approach"
  6. Mark Sagoff, "Do We Consume Too Much?"
  7. Rogene A. Buchholz, "Toward a New Ethic of Production and Consumption"
  8. Sandra B. Rosenthal, "The Four Good Reasons for Limiting Consumption: A Pragmatic Perspective"
  9. Ernest Partridge, "How Much is Too Much?"
  10. Gordon G. Sollars and R. Edward Freeman, "Sagoff's Environmentalism: An Economic and Ethical Critique"
  11. William A. McDonough, "A Boat for Thoreau"
  12. Michael Gorman, "Imaginative Design Challenges to 'Do We Consume Too Much?'"
  13. R. Edward Freeman and Joel Reichart, "Toward a Life-Centered Ethic for Business"
  14. Bryan G. Norton, "Clearing the Way for a Life-Centered Ethics for Business"
  15. Kristen Shrader-Frechette, "Ethics and the Challenge of Low Dose Exposures"
  16. Vivian E. Thomson, "Getting the Lead Out: Grab-Bag Ethics in Environmental Policymaking"
  17. Lee E. Preston, "Global Economy; Global Environment: Relationships and Regimes"
  18. Lisa Newton, " Scaffold for Muir: A Logic for Environmental Protection"
  19. Edward Stead and Jean Garner Stead, "Earth: A Spiritual Stakeholder"

but3Volume 1: New Approaches to Business Ethics

Patricia H. Werhane, Editor
· Published 1998 · 189 pages

  1. Richard Rorty, "Can American Egalitarianism Survive A Globalized Economy?"
  2. George Brenkert, "Marketing and the Vulnerable"
  3. John Danley, "Beyond Managerialism"
  4. R. Edward Freeman, "Poverty and the Politics of Capitalism"
  5. Norman Bowie, "A Kantian Theory of Capitalism"
  6. Andrew Wicks, "How Kantian a Kantian Theory of Capitalism?"
  7. Patricia H. Werhane, "Moral Imagination and the Search for Ethical Decision Making in Management"
  8. Joanne B. Ciulla, "Imagination, Fantasy, Wishful Thinking and Truth"
  9. Larue T. Hosmer, "Lessons from the Wreck of the Exxon Valdez: The Need for Imagination, Empathy and Courage"
  10. Deborah Vidaver-Cohen, "Moral Imagination in Organizational Problem-Solving: An Institutional Perspective"
  11. David M. Messick, "Social Categories and Business Ethics"
  12. Donna J. Wood, "Ingroups and Outgroups: What Psychology Doesn't Say"
  13. Edwin M. Hartman, "Altruism, Ingroups and Fairness: Comments on Messick"

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