Cynicism and corporate integrity: Obstacles and possibilities for moral communication

Erik de Bakker

Cynicism and corporate integrity: Obstacles and possibilities for moral communication

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Erik de Bakker

Erik de Bakker LEI, Wageningen University and Research Centre, Burgemeester Patijnlaan 19, P.O. Box 29703, 2502 LS The Hague, The Netherlands, erik.debakker@wur.nl

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Pages:: 103–108

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.3920/9789086865758_016

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Paying thorough attention to cynical action and integrity could result in a less naive approach to ethics and moral communication. In this article the issues of integrity and cynicism are discussed on a theoretical and a more practical level. In the first part, Habermas’ approach of communicative action (1981) is confronted with Sloterdijk’s concept of cynical reason (1983). In the second part, the focus will be on the constraints and possibilities for moral communication within a business context. Discussing the corporate integrity approach of Kaptein and Wempe will do this. This approach can be considered as a valuable and insightful contribution to the question of how to deal with (dilemmas of) conflicting interests, open discussion, fairness, and strategic decision-making in the context of stakeholder dialogue. However, it is concluded that Kaptein and Wempe seem to overstretch the concept of corporate integrity by their inclination to make it an all-purpose remedy for corporate dilemmas.

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Ethics and the politics of food

Preprints of the 6th Congress of the European Society for Agricultural and Food Ethics

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Print Publication Date:: 10 Oct 2006

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