Moral Imagination in the Twenty-first Century : Individuals and Organizations

Werhane, Patricia H./ Bevan, David J.

Cambridge University Press（2025/11発売）

• 製本 Paperback:紙装版/ペーパーバック版／ページ数 225 p.
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9781009565844

Full Description

What role could or should moral imagination play in managerial and corporate decision-making? This book es 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.

Contents

1. Introduction; 2. Why do good people and great organizations do bad things?; 3. Social constructivism and the very idea of a conceptual scheme; 4. The Rashomon effect; 5.Moral imagination; 6. Moral reasoning and moral imagination; 7. Systems thinking, process philosophy and moral imagination; 8. Next stages: reformulating the paradigm of western industrial global capitalism through moral imagination; 9. Moral imagination in technological development Amanda McCroskery and Ben Zevenbergen.