About the event
The first of the Trinity term's R:ETRO - Reputation: Ethics, Trust, and Relationships at Oxford - seminar series.
Hasko von Kriegstein, Associate Professor in the Department of Law and Business, Ted Rogers school of Management, Toronto Metropolitan University will be the guest speaker for a seminar being hosted by Alan Morrison, Professor of Law and Finance at Saïd Business School, and Rita Mota, International Research Fellow (IRF) at Saïd Business School and Assistant Professor at ESADE Business School, as part of the R:ETRO seminar series - Reputation: Ethics, Trust, and Relationships at Oxford.
Abstract:
Academics and practitioners whose work revolves around ethics in business are all too familiar with the saw that 'business ethics' is a contradiction in terms. It’s often encountered as a joke, though one typically taken to contain a grain of truth, and sometimes as a serious contention.
This lecture will begin by unpacking and critiquing some arguments for why one might think that there is a deep conceptual tension between ethics and business that would vindicate this type of Business Ethics Denial.
The lecture will then address the idea that business ethics denial itself is partly responsible for the prevalence of unethical and illegal conduct in the business context.
