Virtue and Vice Attributions in the Business Context: An Experimental Investigation

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• 作者：Brian Robinson (1)
  Paul Stey (2)
  Mark Alfano (3)
  
• 关键词：Attributions ; Knobe effect ; Side ; effect ; Side ; effect effect ; Vice ; Virtue
• 刊名：Journal of Business Ethics
• 出版年：2013
• 出版时间：April 2013
• 年：2013
• 卷：113
• 期：4
• 页码：649-661
• 全文大小：433KB
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• 作者单位：Brian Robinson (1)
  Paul Stey (2)
  Mark Alfano (3)
  
  1. Grand Valley State University, Allendale, MI, USA
  2. University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, IN, USA
  3. Princeton University Center for Human Values, Princeton, NJ, USA
  
• ISSN：1573-0697

文摘

Recent findings in experimental philosophy have revealed that people attribute intentionality, belief, desire, knowledge, and blame asymmetrically to side-effects depending on whether the agent who produces the side-effect violates or adheres to a norm. Although the original (and still common) test for this effect involved a chairman helping or harming the environment, hardly any of these findings have been applied to business ethics. We review what little exploration of the implications for business ethics has been done. Then, we present new experimental results that expand the attribution asymmetry to virtue and vice. We also examine whether it matters to people that an effect was produced as a primary or side-effect, as well as how consumer habits might be affected by this phenomenon. These results lead to the conclusion that it appears to be in a businessperson’s self-interest to be virtuous.