著者

松井 亮太

出版者

日本経営倫理学会

雑誌

日本経営倫理学会誌 (ISSN:13436627)

巻号頁・発行日

vol.26, pp.117-133, 2019-02-28 (Released:2019-05-27)

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This paper conducted a comparative analysis about the falsification scandal uncovered at the nuclear department of the Tokyo Electric Power Company(TEPCO)in the 2000s and the insufficient tsunami risk assumption prior to the Fukushima nuclear accident which occurred in 2011 from a behavioral ethics standpoint. For the information source, I used the external lawyer investigation reports of the falsification scandal and the official investigation reports of the Fukushima nuclear accident. This paper also used the testimonies of the government investigation committee on the Fukushima nuclear accident which were publicly disclosed in 2014. As a result of the analysis, the common factors for the falsification scandal and the insufficient tsunami risk assumption were egocentric bias, loss framing, and moral licensing. In order to prevent unethical behavior and risk neglect, I made two recommendations based on the previous researches of behavioral ethics.

著者

高浦 康有

出版者

日本経営倫理学会

雑誌

日本経営倫理学会誌 (ISSN:13436627)

巻号頁・発行日

vol.19, pp.179-185, 2012-01-31 (Released:2017-08-08)

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This paper builds on the methodology of CMS(critical management studies), while using the analytical framework of H.A.Simon's modern organization theory. It specifically investigates the case of crush accident on the pedestrian bridge at the fireworks event in Akashi City 2001 on secondary materials such as news articles about judgments in the court. It analyses how various organizations like the city administrators, police and security company were related to cross-organizational decision-making on restricting/unrestricting flows of pedestrians to avoid the accident. A structural gap of responsibility in organizational decision-making process can be reviled as well as systematic oppression that modern organizations inevitably include, such as inhibition of the autonomous decisions of individuals, which 'value-neutral' management theory could not make explicit.

著者

大槻 修平

出版者

日本経営倫理学会

雑誌

日本経営倫理学会誌 (ISSN:13436627)

巻号頁・発行日

no.18, pp.27-39, 2011-03-31

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The purpose of this article is to identify an issue that a series of "social amplification of risk framework" studies have not focused on. For this purpose, the article discusses the following points: (1) four key concepts derived from Yucca Mountain site problem that led to the notion of "social amplification", namely, risk experience, information channels, amplification mechanisms and stigma, (2) how the "social amplification of risk framework" explains risk phenomena, (3) typical empirical studies based upon this framework, and (4) an issue those typical studies have failed to touch upon. In conclusion I emphasize how important to address this issue.

著者

大野 正英

出版者

日本経営倫理学会

雑誌

日本経営倫理学会誌 (ISSN:13436627)

巻号頁・発行日

vol.19, pp.241-253, 2012-01-31 (Released:2017-08-08)

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'Sanpo-yoshi (three parties good)', which means 'good for the seller, good for the buyer, good for the society', is usually regarded as the word which expresses the management philosophy of Omi merchants. In this paper, I revealed that it was not historic word and the first use of the word could be found in the moral theory of Dr. Chikuro Hiroike. He claimed that we should give sufficient moral considerations to the interests of the third parties, as well as of one's own and of the partner. This concept can be interpreted as a Japanese style stakeholder approach.

著者

李 昭娟

出版者

日本経営倫理学会

雑誌

日本経営倫理学会誌 (ISSN:13436627)

巻号頁・発行日

vol.21, pp.297-308, 2014-02-28 (Released:2017-08-08)

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This study aimed to examine the phenomenon of corruption observed throughout South Korean society by focusing on businesses and then elucidate the factors that affect and induce such a trend. First, South Korea's unique mechanism that breeds corruption in South Korean society was theoretically examined. The results indicated that nepotism causes corruption through the effects of four factors: 1) personal, 2) organizational, 3) social structural, and 4) cultural. Second, by focusing on businesses, a further analysis was conducted on the reality of nepotism among South Korean companies. It revealed that nepotism negatively influenced businesses by 1) increasing corruption caused by inappropriate means for taking over management, 2) weakening the independence of board of directors through the appointment of outside directors based on alumni relationships, and 3) disabling the function of the board of directors and increasing the inequality within the company through the appointment of professional managers based on regional bonds. Therefore, to understand the current forms of nepotism in South Korean society, such as mutual aid provided through the reciprocal action of blood, alumni, and regional relationships encouraged in the traditional Confucian society, it is inappropriate under the current situation to focus only on businesses. In fact, the application of nepotism for the self-interests of a company head's clan is aggravating corporate corruption and increasing the occurrence of scandals.

著者

杉本 俊介

出版者

日本経営倫理学会

雑誌

日本経営倫理学会誌 (ISSN:13436627)

巻号頁・発行日

vol.30, pp.49-59, 2023-03-30 (Released:2023-05-04)

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Virtue ethics approaches in business ethics have received increasing research attention in recent years. In these studies, wisdom, courage, temperance, justice, team spirit, teamwork, collaboration, and integrity are specifically mentioned as virtues, but are these regarded as virtues in the Japanese business scene? This presentation aims to identify the qualities that are regarded as virtues in the Japanese business scene, on the basis of the management philosophy of Japanese companies. Text mining is employed to investigate the virtues included in management philosophy and their frequency. KH Coder is used to extract the virtues from frequently occurring words in the management philosophy. The extracted virtues are contribution, trustworthiness, creativity, fairness, responsibility, and so on. From this, it is evident that the virtues in the Japanese business scene are very different from those found in previous studies.

著者

佐藤 陽一

出版者

日本経営倫理学会

雑誌

日本経営倫理学会誌 (ISSN:13436627)

巻号頁・発行日

no.8, pp.51-62, 2001-03-31

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Since the Ikeda cabinet revived the current decoration system in 1963, many businessmen have been decorated. Nowadays, because of the increased tenacity of acquiring a decoration,senior executives pursue a higher position and stay there for a longer period.Aging and moral hazards have become conspicuous phenomena among them. If the current deplorable system is abolished,if aged leaders change their interest into a service to the public utilizing their insight and expertise, and if the younger generation demonstrate their ability as new leaders, then we can expect a vital ethical 21st century.

著者

杉本 俊介

出版者

日本経営倫理学会

雑誌

日本経営倫理学会誌 (ISSN:13436627)

巻号頁・発行日

vol.29, pp.253-265, 2022-03-20 (Released:2022-11-03)

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This paper provides a theoretical basis for organizational virtue and proposes a framework for ethical evaluation of organizational scandals that cannot be assessed using individual virtue standards. I first review traditional virtue ethics and show its limitations. Next, I focus on how organizational virtue can overcome these limitations and examine previous research. I then define an organizational virtue as a character trait that helps stakeholders flourish and propose a framework for organizational virtue ethics based on this definition. Finally, I attempt an ethical evaluation of the Japan Post Insurance scandal within the proposed framework.

著者

大塚 祐一

出版者

日本経営倫理学会

雑誌

日本経営倫理学会誌 (ISSN:13436627)

巻号頁・発行日

vol.26, pp.103-115, 2019-02-28 (Released:2019-05-27)

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The notion of integrity, one of the central concepts in business ethics, has been perceived as a virtue of character and recognized as an essential quality that manager and leader should hold. Every time corporate scandals and corporate unethical behavior come into the open, we repeatedly hear the word. However, despite the common sense that integrity is important, there is no common definition or understanding because of its ambiguity. In this paper, as a first step of understanding of integrity, I will roughly describe the outline of integrity. In that work, I will classify the previous studies on integrity into broad sense and narrow sense and then try to give integrated interpretation of integrity.

著者

宮川 準

出版者

日本経営倫理学会

雑誌

日本経営倫理学会誌 (ISSN:13436627)

巻号頁・発行日

vol.17, pp.123-136, 2010-03-31 (Released:2017-08-08)

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Major Apparel brands, Nike, Gap have developed the self-regulation approach to manage 'Sweatshop Issue' during last 10 years. Along with the dispute between corporations and labor/human rights organization, this approach has evolved into the detailed monitoring/disclosure program, hardly seen among other industries. But evaluating the CSR reports they disclosed, the level of coherence and remediation in the contract factories is still far from the ideal, after 10 years of their private initiatives. Looking ahead, it seems this approach would lose faith in public and also in apparel giants themselves. Actually their initiatives had significant effect on the trend of the issue, but smaller corporations cannot take similar path because of its burden. Thus less self-regulative, more public, coherent approach is demanded near future. Larger public international entity like ILO could take this role, but this idea takes time to be realized, based on the experiences of Nike, Gap.

著者

林 寿和

出版者

日本経営倫理学会

雑誌

日本経営倫理学会誌 (ISSN:13436627)

巻号頁・発行日

vol.25, pp.111-127, 2018-02-28 (Released:2018-04-13)

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This paper analyzes how the volume of disclosed information and/or impression management in corporate reporting affect companies’ ESG scores, and thus positive screening based on ESG scores by using simulation models. The key findings of this paper are as follows. Firstly, the accuracy rate of positive screening would be significantly affected by the information volume and/or impression management. Secondly, an increase in the number of evaluation items or date points to calculate ESG score seem to provide more multi-dimensional ESG evaluation. However, under the circumstances where the effect of the volume of disclosed information and/or impression management on ESG evaluation exists, the accuracy rate would not be necessarily improved. Thirdly, introduction and tightening of disclosure regulations would improve the accuracy rate, but its marginal effect is incremental. When practitioners employ ESG scoring based on corporate reporting, they need to consider appropriate measures to eliminate or reduce the negative effects.

著者

峰内 謙一

出版者

日本経営倫理学会

雑誌

日本経営倫理学会誌 (ISSN:13436627)

巻号頁・発行日

vol.22, pp.303-316, 2015-01-31 (Released:2017-08-08)

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As Japanese stock prices recover from global financial meltdown, more investors - notably institutional investors returning to stock markets after the Lehman Shock - are demanding to improve the governance of Japanese corporations and call for adopting the Anglo-American model of shareholder primacy. Apparently motivated by their outcries, the Abe administration seems to have expressed support for Anglo-American style of governance without substantive discussion of the merits and deficiencies of Japanese corporate governance. Unlike Anglo-American model with its short-termism, Japan's governance model is founded on the principle of long-term corporate sustainability. This paper discusses both governance models and suggest that Japan's type can even be future world model. It argues that Anglo-American type governance is unnecessary and detrimental to Japanese corporations. It advocates the need to establish a new governance model based on Japan's "Audit & Supervisory Board" system. The paper concludes by offering recommendations that seem feasible in the author's experience as a member of the above board.

著者

樋口 晴彦

出版者

日本経営倫理学会

雑誌

日本経営倫理学会誌 (ISSN:13436627)

巻号頁・発行日

vol.24, pp.179-197, 2017 (Released:2018-04-11)

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The study found three causes of the inspection deficiencies; no inspection manual, little training for inspection personnel, and pressure of shorter working hours, which derived from the strategy of the inspection company to give high priority to increase the number of orders. Additionally it showed two typical mechanism to induce organizational misconducts; doctrinaire practice of strategy and excessive reliance on OJT (on-the-job training).

著者

杉本 俊介

出版者

日本経営倫理学会

雑誌

日本経営倫理学会誌 (ISSN:13436627)

巻号頁・発行日

vol.24, pp.199-211, 2017 (Released:2018-04-11)

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The moral justification for external whistleblowing has been the subject of significant recent debate. The main arguments on either side have been drawn from either consequentialism or deontology. Recently, some scholars have argued that these arguments miss two points:‘tragicality’and the moral remainder. These scholars intend their critiques to show insufficiencies rather than defects in the consequentialist and deontological accounts. However, these critiques may instead be taken to show that alternative approaches are more suitable for an analysis of external whistleblowing. Drawing on this suggestion, in this paper, I defend a virtue ethics approach to the justifiability of external whistleblowing.

著者

今井 祐

出版者

日本経営倫理学会

雑誌

日本経営倫理学会誌 (ISSN:13436627)

巻号頁・発行日

vol.22, pp.263-272, 2015-01-31 (Released:2017-08-08)

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Mr. KAZUO INAMORI who has two success stories in KYOCERA Corporation and KDDI Corporation in business expansion was nominated as a chairman of JAL which went into bankruptcy in 2010. In JAL he applied successfully INAMORI's philosophy consisting of (1) leadership education, (2) making the new management philosophy, and (3) the profit management system so-called "Amoeba" management. It is important that his decision criteria should be based on sound truths and principles, such as the morality and ethics that answer to "What is the right thing for me, as a human being, to do?" I tested theoretically INAMORI's philosophy based on (1) the analysis of Ph.D. Iwao Taka on JAL, (2) the leadership theory of Ph.D. Atsushi Aoyama, and (3) the ethical arrangement in work- place of Ph.D. Nobuyuki Demise etc. The conclusion is that INAMORI's philosophy can effectively and widely be applied to the companies that are under rebirth from bankruptcy, loss, and low profit for a long time etc..

著者

垣堺 淳

出版者

日本経営倫理学会

雑誌

日本経営倫理学会誌 (ISSN:13436627)

巻号頁・発行日

vol.17, pp.137-146, 2010

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One of the popular themes of business ethics has been what really the purpose of a business firm is-in other words, what are the means and what are the ends. Bowie's approach for this theme is addressing the question "How would a business firm in a capitalist economy be structured and managed according to Kant's ethics?" He answers this question using Kant's three formulations of categorical imperative. This paper is set out in the following way. First, rivalry between stockholder theory and stakeholder theoty is analysed. Then features of Bowie's Kantian Capitalism are clarified. Finally, availabilities of categorical imperative in a real business situation are indicated.

著者

武藤 信夫 佐藤 陽一

出版者

日本経営倫理学会

雑誌

日本経営倫理学会誌 (ISSN:13436627)

巻号頁・発行日

no.9, pp.115-123, 2002-03-31

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We have to learn the essence of business ethics from Ryoi Suminokura and his son,Soan,who,based on Kyoto,had a splendid performance in a trade business about 400 years ago when the era changed to the Azuchi-Momoyama and the Edo period after the Sengoku.They regulated "Shuuchuu-kiyaku" (舟中規約) , or the code on the shipboard,which showed their creed that the profit is only the result from their confidence and obligation.We can understand its value from the fact that it was submitted through his Friend Seika Fujiwara (藤原惺窩) to "Shuin-sen" (朱印船) on 1603,the first trading ship to abroad authorized by the goverment of Edo.Still more it is also remarkable that Ryoi tried to increase social welfare and public interest,excavating riversby his own property or supporting to learning,art,science and culture.

著者

高浦 康有

出版者

日本経営倫理学会

雑誌

日本経営倫理学会誌 (ISSN:13436627)

巻号頁・発行日

no.19, pp.179-185, 2012-01-31

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This paper builds on the methodology of CMS(critical management studies), while using the analytical framework of H.A.Simon's modern organization theory. It specifically investigates the case of crush accident on the pedestrian bridge at the fireworks event in Akashi City 2001 on secondary materials such as news articles about judgments in the court. It analyses how various organizations like the city administrators, police and security company were related to cross-organizational decision-making on restricting/unrestricting flows of pedestrians to avoid the accident. A structural gap of responsibility in organizational decision-making process can be reviled as well as systematic oppression that modern organizations inevitably include, such as inhibition of the autonomous decisions of individuals, which 'value-neutral' management theory could not make explicit.

著者

久野 桂

出版者

日本経営倫理学会

雑誌

日本経営倫理学会誌 (ISSN:13436627)

巻号頁・発行日

vol.4, pp.3-9, 1997-03-31 (Released:2017-07-28)

著者

福田 智美

出版者

日本経営倫理学会

雑誌

日本経営倫理学会誌 (ISSN:13436627)

巻号頁・発行日

vol.29, pp.85-102, 2022-03-20 (Released:2022-11-03)

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This paper discusses how governance issues can impact the value of Japanese companies. Japan’s Corporate Governance Code was first introduced in 2015, and has since been revised twice since then. The latest revision emphasizes gender and other types of diversity, as well as the importance of outside directors. The number of female outside directors increased from 159 in 2014 to 1,835 in 2021. How did the addition of female outside directors improve corporate value and management? Previous research on the issue finds both positive and negative aspects of the appointment of female directors on corporate value. This is due to its short history and small number of female directors. This paper interviewed nine companies listed on the Tokyo Stock Exchange from three industries and analyzed them using a qualitative method known as SCAT. I conclude that the introduction of female outside directors had a positive effect on the corporate value.