Patricia H Werhane

Biographic Data

ID3788775
NAMEPatricia H Werhane
GIVEN NAMESPatricia H
FAMILY NAMEWerhane
SIGNATUREWERHANE P H
AFFILIATIONSDePaul University
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS23
TOTAL CITATIONS6
WORKS AS AUTHOR21
WORKS AS EDITOR2
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1980
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2023
H-INDEX1

  • Leadership, Gender, and Organization

    Open AccessMollie Painter‐Morland, Mollie Painter et al.EDITORBOOKIssues in Business Ethics2023

  • Leadership, Engineering and Ethical Clashes at Boeing

    Open AccessElaine Englehardt, Luis Ciriza Aríztegui et al.ARTICLEScience and Engineering Ethics2021

    When there are disasters in our society, whether on an individual, organizational or systemic level, individuals or groups of individuals are often singled out for blame, and commonly it is assumed that the alleged culprits engaged in deliberate misdeeds. But sometimes, at least, these disasters occur not because of deliberate malfeasance, but rather because of complex organizational and systemic circumstances that result in these negative outcom…

  • Spheres of Influence

    Open AccessAndrew C Wicks, T C Bjornn et al.ARTICLEJournal of Business Ethics2021

    Michael Walzer is one of the most distinguished political philosophers and social critics of this century. His ideas have had great import and influence in political philosophy and political discussion, yet very few of his ideas have been incorporated explicitly into the business ethics literature. We argue that Walzer's work provides an important conceptual canvas for business ethics scholars that has not been adequately explored. Scholars in bu…

  • Some Musings About the Future of Business Ethics Scholarship

    Open AccessPatricia H WerhaneARTICLEJournal of Business Ethics2020

  • Employment at Will

    Open AccessPatricia H Werhane, Tara J RadinCHAPTERWiley Encyclopedia of Management2015

    Employment at will (EAW), a common law doctrine dating back to 1887, states that absent law, contract obligations, or (in the U.S.) union agreements, employers have the right to hire, promote, demote, and fire whomever and whenever they wish “for a good cause, for no cause, or even for causes that are morally wrong, thereby without being guilty of legal wrong”. Effectively, EAW lets employers sidestep due process and grievance procedures. Legal t…

  • Moral Imagination

    Open AccessPatricia H WerhaneCHAPTERWiley Encyclopedia of Management2015

    The idea of moral imagination derives historically from the work of A dam S mith and I mmanuel K ant. In business ethics, moral imagination is defined as the ability in particular circumstances to discover and evaluate possibilities not merely determined by that circumstance, or limited by its operative mental models, or merely framed by a set of rules or rule‐governed concerns. In management decision making, moral imagination entails perceiving …

  • Due Process

    Open AccessPatricia H Werhane, Tara J RadinCHAPTERWiley Encyclopedia of Management2015

    A means by which one can appeal a decision in order to get an explanation of that action and/or a disinterested, objective, or fair judgment of its rightness or wrongness.

  • Organizational Moral Distress

    Open AccessAnn E Mills, Patricia H WerhaneCHAPTERWiley Encyclopedia of Management2015

    Moral distress has been identified at the individual level and defined as the anguish a person may experience faced with a situation in which the individual knows the right thing to do but is prevented from doing it by institutional constraints. In this article, we take a broader approach and apply the idea of moral distress to the organizational level. We call this concept organizational moral distress. Organizational moral distress is, in part,…

  • Corporate Moral Agency and the Responsibility to Respect Human Rights in the UN Guiding Principles

    Open AccessPatricia H WerhaneARTICLEBusiness and Human Rights Journal2015Cited by: 4References: 15

    In 2011 the United Nations (UN) published the ‘Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights: Implementing the United Nations “Protect, Respect, and Remedy” Framework’ (Guiding Principles). The Guiding Principles specify that for-profit corporations have responsibilities to respect human rights. Do these responsibilities entail that corporations, too, have basic rights? The contention that corporations are moral persons is problematic because i…

  • Business Ethics in Theory and Practice

    Patricia Werhane, Patricia H Werhane et al.EDITORBOOKBusiness Ethics in Theory and…2013

  • Obstacles to Ethical Decision-Making

    Open AccessPatricia H Werhane, Laura Pincus Hartman et al.BOOKObstacles to Ethical Decision-Makin…2013

    In commerce, many moral failures are due to narrow mindsets that preclude taking into account the moral dimensions of a decision or action. In turn, sometimes these mindsets are caused by failing to question managerial decisions from a moral point of view, because of a perceived authority of management. In the 1960s, Stanley Milgram conducted controversial experiments to investigate just how far obedience to an authority figure could subvert his …

  • Moral Imagination, Trading Zones, and the Role of the Ethicist in Nanotechnology

    Open AccessMichael E Gorman, Patricia H Werhane et al.ARTICLENanoEthics2009Cited by: 1References: 9

  • The Business Ethics within Bioethics

    Patricia H Werhane, Leonard J WeberARTICLEThe Hastings Center Report2002

    L eonard Weber's Business Ethics in Healthcare is a well-timed and important book to add to the growing collection of new monographs and articles on organizational and economic aspects of health care. Unlike some of the other new texts, the book focuses primarily on the business of health care delivery. It does not deal directly with issues in clinical, professional, or biotechnological ethics. It addresses business ethics issues. Weber distingui…

  • Business Ethics and the Origins of Contemporary Capitalism

    Open AccessPatricia H WerhaneARTICLEJournal of Business Ethics2000

  • Organizing Ethics

    George J Agich, Edward M Spencer et al.ARTICLEThe Hastings Center Report2000

  • Justice and Trust

    Open AccessPatricia H WerhaneARTICLEJournal of Business Ethics1999

  • Adam Smith, Aristotle, and the Virtues of Commerce

    Open AccessMartin Calkins, Martin J Calkins et al.ARTICLEThe Journal of Value Inquiry1998

  • Capitalism as a Moral System

    Walter Eltis, Spencer J Pack et al.ARTICLEThe Economic History Review1994

  • Capitalism as a Moral System

    Vanessa Brown, Vivienne Brown et al.ARTICLEThe Economic Journal1993Cited by: 1

    Journal Article Capitalism as a Moral System: Adam Smith's Critique of the Free Market Economy. Adam Smith and His Legacy for Modern Capitalism Get access Capitalism as a Moral System: Adam Smith's Critique of the Free Market Economy. By Spencer J. Pack. (Aldershot: Edward Elgar, 1991. Pp. viii + 199. £35.00 hardback. ISBN 1 85278 442 3.)Adam Smith and His Legacy for Modern Capitalism. By Patricia H. Werhane. (Oxford and New York: Oxford Universi…

  • Wittgenstein and moral realism

    Open AccessPatricia H WerhaneARTICLEThe Journal of Value Inquiry1992

  • Responsibility, Rights and Welfare

    Open AccessPatricia H WerhaneARTICLEPhilosophical Books1989

  • Some paradoxes in Kripke's interpretation of Wittgenstein

    Open AccessPatricia H WerhaneARTICLESynthese1987

  • Business Ethics

    Clarence C Walton, Charles W Powers et al.ARTICLEThe Hastings Center Report1980

    Even casual awareness of that fragment of recent intellectual history related to corporate behavior should dispel the belief that scholarly interest in business ethics represents a kneejerk reaction to the Gulf, Lockheed, and similar fiascoes. Such interest has been simmering for a long time. Nearly twenty years have elapsed since William Ruder, Assistant Secretary of Commerce in the Kennedy Administration, completed a government-sponsored survey…