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Cropanzano, Russell S., Massaro, Sebastiano and Becker, William J. (2017) Deontic justice and organizational neuroscience. Journal of Business Ethics, 144 (4). pp. 733-754. doi:10.1007/s10551-016-3056-3 ISSN 0167-4544.
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Official URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10551-016-3056-3
Abstract
According to deontic justice theory, individuals often feel principled moral obligations to uphold norms of justice. That is, standards of justice can be valued for their own sake, even apart from serving self-interested goals. While a growing body of evidence in business ethics supports the notion of deontic justice, skepticism remains. This hesitation results, at least in part, from the absence of a coherent framework for explaining how individuals produce and experience deontic justice. To address this need, we argue that a compelling, yet still missing, step is to gain further understanding into the underlying neural and psychological mechanisms of deontic justice. Here, we advance a theoretical model that disentangles three key processes of deontic justice: The use of justice rules to assess events, cognitive empathy, and affective empathy. Together with reviewing neural systems supporting these processes, broader implications of our model for business ethics scholarship are discussed.
Item Type: | Journal Article | ||||||||||
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Subjects: | B Philosophy. Psychology. Religion > BJ Ethics R Medicine > RC Internal medicine > RC0321 Neuroscience. Biological psychiatry. Neuropsychiatry |
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Divisions: | Faculty of Social Sciences > Warwick Business School > Behavioural Science Faculty of Social Sciences > Warwick Business School |
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Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH): | Ethics, Justice, Neurosciences | ||||||||||
Journal or Publication Title: | Journal of Business Ethics | ||||||||||
Publisher: | Springer Netherlands | ||||||||||
ISSN: | 0167-4544 | ||||||||||
Official Date: | September 2017 | ||||||||||
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Volume: | 144 | ||||||||||
Number: | 4 | ||||||||||
Number of Pages: | 21 | ||||||||||
Page Range: | pp. 733-754 | ||||||||||
DOI: | 10.1007/s10551-016-3056-3 | ||||||||||
Status: | Peer Reviewed | ||||||||||
Publication Status: | Published | ||||||||||
Access rights to Published version: | Open Access (Creative Commons) | ||||||||||
Date of first compliant deposit: | 1 April 2016 | ||||||||||
Date of first compliant Open Access: | 1 April 2016 |
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