Business Ethics

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Featured Books

Featured articles:

  • Garst, J., Blok, V., Branzei, O., Jansen, L., Omta, O. (2021) “Towards a Value-Sensitive-Absorbtive Capacity Framework: Navigating Inter-value and Inter-value Conflicts to Answer the Societal Call for Health”, Business and Society 60(6): 1349-1386
  • Osagie, E., Wesselink, R., Blok, V., Mulder, M. (2020), “Learning Organization for Corporate Social Responsibility Implementation; Unravelling the intricate relationships between Organizational and Operational LO Characteristics”, Organization & Environment (10.1177/1086026620933915)
  • Brand, T., Blok, V., Verweij, M. (2020) “Stakeholder dialogue as agonistic deliberation: exploring the role of conflict and self-interest in business-NGO interaction”, Business Ethics Quarterly, 30(1): 3-30
  • Blok, V. (2019), “Innovation as Ethos. Moving beyond CSR and Practical Wisdom in Innovation Ethics”. Handbook of Philosophy of Management. Dordrecht: Springer (10.1007/978-3-319-48352-8_19-1)
  • Blok, V. (2019), “From Participation to Interruption: Toward an ethics of stakeholder engagement, participation and partnership in CSR and responsible innovation”. Von Schomberg, R. (ed.) Handbook Responsible Innovation: A Global Resource. Northhampton: Edward Elgar Publishing, 243-257
  • Blok, V. (2017), “Bridging the Gap between Ethical Principles and Actual Responsible Behaviour: Toward  a Performative Concept of Corporate Codes”. Philosophy of Management 16(2): 117-136
  • Blok, V. (2017), “Levinasian Ethics in Business”, Encyclopedia of Business and Professional Ethics (Springer: Dordrecht) (in press).
  • Tempels, T., Blok, V., Verweij, M. (2017) “Understanding Political Responsibility in Corporate Citizenship: Towards a shared responsibility for the common good”, Journal of Global Ethics 13(1): 90-108
  • Blok, V., Gremmen, B., Wesselink, R. (2016) “Dealing with the Wicked Problem of Sustainable Development. The Role of Individual Virtuous Competence”. Business & Professional Ethics Journal 34(3): 297-327 (DOI: 10.5840/bpej201621737)
  • Osagie, E., Wesselink, R., Blok, V., Lans, T., Mulder, M. (2016) “Individual Competencies for Corporate Social Responsibility: A Literature and Practice Perspective”, Journal of Business Ethics 135(2): 233-252(DOI 10.1007/s10551-014-2469-0)
  • Blok, V., (2013) “The Power of Speech Acts: Reflections on a Performative Concept of Ethical Oaths in Econom ics and Business”, Review of Social Economy, 71(2)(2013), pp. 187-208