Quaker Business Ethics as MacIntyrean Tradition

Burton, Nicholas and Sinnicks, Matthew (2022) Quaker Business Ethics as MacIntyrean Tradition. Journal of Business Ethics, 176 (3). pp. 507-518. ISSN 0167-4544

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Official URL: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10551-020-04706-y

Abstract

This paper argues that Quaker business ethics can be understood as a MacIntyrean tradition. To do so, it draws on three key MacIntyrean concepts: community, compartmentalisation, and the critique of management. The emphasis in Quaker business ethics on finding unity, as well as the emphasis that Quaker businesses have placed on serving their local areas, accords with MacIntyre’s claim that small-scale community is essential to human flourishing. The emphasis on integrity in Quaker business ethics means practitioners are well-placed to resist the compartmentalising pressures of contemporary work. Quaker business ethics is also highly critical of the manipulative forms of management that MacIntyre regards as dominant. As such, Quaker business ethics provides evidence that more morally ameliorative forms of running business organisations is possible, even if they remain difficult to achieve.

Item Type: Article
Uncontrolled Keywords: Management, Compartmentalisation, Community, MacIntyre, Quakers
Subjects: N100 Business studies
N900 Others in Business and Administrative studies
Department: Faculties > Business and Law > Newcastle Business School
Depositing User: Rachel Branson
Date Deposited: 18 Jan 2021 11:40
Last Modified: 29 Mar 2022 10:00
URI: http://nrl.northumbria.ac.uk/id/eprint/45240

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