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None of your business ethics : essays in secrecy, ethics, and commerce / Matthew Thomas Caulfield.
- Format:
- Book
- Thesis/Dissertation
- Author/Creator:
- Caulfield, Matthew Thomas, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Ethics.
- Testimony.
- Verbal communication.
- Economic life.
- Debates.
- Society.
- Neutrality.
- Sociology.
- Essays.
- Morality.
- Philosophy.
- Ethics and legal studies--Penn dissertations.
- Penn dissertations--Ethics and legal studies.
- Local Subjects:
- Ethics.
- Testimony.
- Verbal communication.
- Economic life.
- Debates.
- Society.
- Neutrality.
- Sociology.
- Essays.
- Morality.
- Philosophy.
- Ethics and legal studies--Penn dissertations.
- Penn dissertations--Ethics and legal studies.
- Genre:
- Academic theses.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (252 pages)
- Contained In:
- Dissertations Abstracts International 83-02A.
- Place of Publication:
- [Philadelphia, Pennsylvania] : University of Pennsylvania ; Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, 2021.
- Language Note:
- English
- System Details:
- Mode of access: World Wide Web.
- text file
- Summary:
- What is the place of secrecy in economic life? Using concepts from business ethics, organizational theory, legal theory, and normative political economy, this dissertation presents novel arguments concerning corporate and individual moral privileges to conceal information within firms and markets. Essay 1 addresses a range of theoretical issues in secrecy, transparency, and moral theory. Essay 2 considers a particular contested case of corporate secrecy-pay secrecy. This essay's applied discussion also generates several additional insights for a more general ethics of corporate secrecy and self-regulation. Essay 3 shifts away from the corporate perspective toward the market actor's perspective, investigating the moral-economic justifications we may have for refusing to transact with certain other actors in markets. It illustrates how secrecy and information asymmetries can serve as core, morally beneficial features of markets. In total, this dissertation represents a significant step toward a more nuanced ethical perspective on secrecy: its role and value in markets; the reasons market actors may have to advance or thwart it; and the associated duties and privileges that attach to managers in relation to stakeholders and larger society.
- Notes:
- Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 83-02, Section: A.
- Advisors: Strudler, Alan; Committee members: Donaldson, Thomas; Singer, Daniel J.
- Department: Ethics and Legal Studies.
- Ph.D. University of Pennsylvania 2021.
- Local Notes:
- School code: 0175
- ISBN:
- 9798535570402
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
- This item must not be sold to any third party vendors.
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