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Pragmatic ethics and the new consultant
Author(s) -
Brown Howard
Publication year - 1996
Publication title -
environmental quality management
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.249
H-Index - 27
eISSN - 1520-6483
pISSN - 1088-1913
DOI - 10.1002/tqem.3310050402
Subject(s) - quality (philosophy) , business , extension (predicate logic) , competitive advantage , professional ethics , engineering ethics , environmental ethics , public relations , sociology , political science , marketing , engineering , computer science , epistemology , philosophy , programming language
Ethical, social, and environmental concerns are beginning to take hold in many businesses, often as an extension of total quality management. Many professional firms have eluded the global trend, but social and ecological realities are catching up. What will the new professional firm look like? This article looks at how firms are finding competitive advantage in old‐fashioned integrity, combined with management techniques and a new scientific understanding of what it takes to successfully adapt in a world of limited resources. “Ethics is awareness of interdependence…” Aldo Leopold.