Morality, Ethics, and Values Outside and Inside Organizations: An Example of the Discourse on Climate Change
Morality, Ethics, and Values Outside and Inside Organizations: An Example of the Discourse on Climate Change
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DOI：
10.1007/s10551-013-1641-2
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发表时间：
2014-02-01
影响因子：
6.1
通讯作者：
Pronzini, Andrea
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作者：
Besio, Cristina;Pronzini, Andrea
关于气候变化的公开辩论充满了道德主张。然而，关于道德、伦理和价值观在这一问题上所起作用的科学知识仍然很少。从这一研究空白开始，我们专注于企业作为现代社会的中央决策者，并分析他们如何应对社会需求，为气候变化承担责任。虽然有关商业道德和气候变化的相关文献要么高度重视道德，要么表现出强烈的怀疑偏见，但我们的社会学模型将道德描述为一种不确定的力量：它可以导致可行的解决方案或仅仅加强现状，这取决于不同的公司如何看待它。我们描述了，一方面，道德价值观在媒体话语中的传播，另一方面是企业的具体反应。虽然媒体话语对公司产生了压力，要求它们负责任地行事，但它们的道德主张并没有提供明确的行动建议。因此，道德成为一种媒介，可以根据其内部动态重新指定组织。公司通过各种不同的反应将道德价值观转化为与其自身结构相容的东西：引入正式的道德结构（例如，道德结构）。例如，在一个实施例中，在某些情况下，道德仅仅成为一种表面现象，而在另一些情况下，道德则成为一种决策标准，深刻影响着公司的核心活动。
The public debate on climate change is filled with moral claims. However, scientific knowledge about the role that morality, ethics, and values play in this issue is still scarce. Starting from this research gap, we focus on corporations as central decision makers in modern society and analyze how they respond to societal demands to take responsibility for climate change. While relevant literature on business ethics and climate change either places a high premium on morality or presents a strong skeptical bias, our sociological model depicts morality as an indeterminate force: it can lead to both workable solutions or merely reinforce the status quo, depending on what different corporations make of it. We describe, on the one side, the diffusion of moral values in the media discourse on climate change and, on the other side, the specific responses of corporations. While the media discourse generates a pressure on corporations to act responsibly, their moral claims do not provide clear advice for action. As a result, morality becomes available to organizations as a medium that can be re-specified according to their internal dynamics. Corporations transform moral values into something compatible with their own structures through a variety of different responses: introducing formal ethical structures (e. g., codes of conduct), initiating value-oriented projects, or developing informal moral norms, and so on. In some occurrences, morality becomes a mere facade, while in others it serves as a decision-making criterion and deeply influences core activities in firms.