Moral imagination in the twenty-first century : individuals and organizations / Patricia H. Werhane, David J. Bevan.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Werhane, Patricia Hogue, author.

Bevan, David, 1948- author.

Standardized Title:

Moral imagination and management decision-making

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Business ethics.

Decision making--Moral and ethical aspects.

Decision making.

Management--Moral and ethical aspects.

Management.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (225 pages)

Edition:

Revised edition.

Place of Publication:

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2025.

System Details:

text file

Summary:

"What role could or should moral imagination play in managerial and corporate decision-making? This book focuses on three simple questions: why do ordinary, decent managers engage in questionable behavior? Why do successful companies ignore the ethical dimensions of their processes, decisions, and actions? And what motivates a successful company such as McDonald's, which closed its 800 restaurants in Russia, to depart from a large and very profitable market? Working from the assumption that all human experience is socially constructed and incomplete, this book argues that a critical missing element in many instances of alleged managerial or corporate wrongdoing is a simple phenomenon: moral imagination. In this fully updated edition, three new chapters and topical case studies, such as Boeing and Google, allow readers to bring process philosophy and systems insights into organizational and managerial thinking. A valuable resource for scholars, students and corporate decision-makers."-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Why do good people and great organizations do bad things?

Social constructivism and the very idea of a conceptual scheme

The rashomon effect

Moral imagination

Moral reasoning and moral imagination

Systems thinking, process philosophy, and moral imagination

Next stages

Moral imagination in technological development

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Online resource; title from PDF title page (viewed November 7, 2025)

Other Format:

Print version :

ISBN:

9781009565882

1009565885

OCLC:

1545080808

Publisher Number:

CIPO000293596

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license