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Care Ethics and Business Management (2)

Are you a caring manager? Do you work for a caring company? This post may help answer these and related questions. It follows the first post, which outlined the ethics of care.

The relationship between business management and care ethics goes back a relatively long time but in a relatively silent way. The early, and to this day probably the most significant context, for care ethics in business focuses on stakeholder theory within the more general context of corporate governance.

Introduction

Care ethics challenges the neoclassical understanding of business. Friedman promulgated the principle that business organizations should focus solely on increasing shareholder value.… Read the rest