Ethical theories provide systematic accounts of right and wrong, drawing on traditions such as consequentialism, which assesses the moral value of actions by their outcomes; deontology, which ...

The organizational theory of corporate social responsibility revolves around the discretionary, ethical, legal and economic expectations placed on businesses by society, according to the Reference For ...

Ethical theory comprises the systematic study of moral principles that guide human conduct. Classical approaches include consequentialism, which judges actions by their outcomes, and deontology, which ...

Conceptual frameworks drawn from theories that have shaped the study of ethics over centuries can help us recognize and describe ethical issues when we encounter them. In this way, a basic grasp of ...

The ethical theory of W.D. Ross (1877-1971) has many strengths. First, it reflects some of our better common sense moral commitments. Second, it is pluralistic, in the sense that Ross believed we have ...

The purpose of Aquinas's Ethics is to place Thomas Aquinas's moral theory in its full philosophical and theological context and to do so in a way that makes Aquinas (1224/5-1274) readily accessible to ...

Ethical leadership is losing ground in 2025. In today's dynamic corporate environment, influential critics often challenge and undermine leaders who commit to ethical leadership. These conflicts ...

The field of medicine has long had formal ethical rules in place. But there may also be good reasons for researchers in the humanities and social sciences to sometimes make ethical judgments differing ...

Jonathan Kwan is an Assistant Professor of Philosophy at New York University Abu Dhabi and was previously the Markkula Center’s Inclusive Excellence Postdoctoral Fellow in Immigration Ethics. Views ...

Tobey Karen Scharding, a visiting professor and fellow at Rutgers Business School’s Institute of Ethical Leadership, has carved out an area of academic research that raises questions about the ethical ...

The center's clinical ethics personnel engage in scholarship focusing on the practice of clinical ethics consultation as well as on the challenging theoretical questions that arise in the clinical ...