Business Ethics and Racial Justice: A Critical Perspective / Tabitha Celeste Mustafa.

Format:

Book

Thesis/Dissertation

Author/Creator:

Mustafa, Tabitha Celeste, author.

Contributor:

University of Pennsylvania. Ethics and Legal Studies, degree granting institution.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Ethics.

Black studies.

Ethics and Legal Studies--Penn dissertations.

Penn dissertations--Ethics and Legal Studies.

Local Subjects:

Ethics.

Black studies.

Ethics and Legal Studies--Penn dissertations.

Penn dissertations--Ethics and Legal Studies.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (162 pages)

Contained In:

Dissertations Abstracts International 85-03A.

Place of Publication:

[Philadelphia, Pennsylvania] : University of Pennsylvania, 2022.

Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, 2023

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Race impacts nearly every aspect of modern society; business is no exception. This dissertation first sets about to argue that business firms have a moral duty to offer reparations to Black Americans for anti-Blackness. My research suggests that race-neutral approaches to theory offer insufficient resources to make appropriate moral prescriptions because racial capitalism is a pillar of the global socioeconomic order. One reason for reliance on race-neutral approaches, I argue, relates to the absence of race in business ethics scholarship and a lack of diversity among the discipline's scholars. I introduce empirical data to demonstrate the absence of race. Next, I turn to demonstrate that race-neutral approaches lack the necessary resources to effectively correct the injustices of the past and secure an equitable future. A critical analysis of a classic piece of business ethics scholarship by Norman E. Bowie provides further impetus for the worry that troubling implications may follow from principles derived from the traditional liberal philosophical approach to business ethics. At a high level, this dissertation provides a vision of what is possible while using a critical race framework and cautions against what can happen without the appropriate methodological tools. In this way, the first chapter proposes an example of what a critical approach to business ethics can offer in terms of corrective racial justice to Black Americans by utilizing an approach akin to a tort law framework-reparations. The second chapter implores using a critical race lens in business ethics and offers a racial justice framework to support its application in the field. The third chapter rejects race-neutral approaches to business ethics in favor of critical race aims and methodology that can consistently yield substantive social justice for racially oppressed groups.

Notes:

Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 85-03, Section: A.

Advisors: Allen, Anita L.; Committee members: Orts, Eric W.; Sepinwall, Amy J.

Department: Ethics and Legal Studies.

Ph.D. University of Pennsylvania 2023.

Local Notes:

School code: 0175

ISBN:

9798380388948

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