Business and the ethical implications of technology / / Kirsten Martin, Katie Shilton and Jeffery Smith, editors

• Pubblicazione: Cham, Switzerland : , : Springer, , [2022]; ©2022
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (301 pages)
• Disciplina: 174.4
• Soggetto topico: Business ethics; Technology - Moral and ethical aspects; Technology - Social aspects
• Persona (resp. second.): MartinKirsten; ShiltonKatie; SmithJeffery
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references.
• Nota di contenuto: Intro -- Contents -- Business and the Ethical Implications of Technology: Introduction to the Symposium -- Abstract -- Technology and the Scope of Business Ethics -- Technology as Value-Laden -- Corporate Responsibility for the Ethical Challenges of Technology -- The Interface of Business and Technology Ethics -- How Business Ethics Informs Technology Ethics -- Human Autonomy and Manipulation -- Trust -- Stakeholder Relations -- How Technology Ethics Informs Business -- Values in Design -- Ethical Implications of Technology and Social Informatics -- Navigating the Special Issue -- Technology and the Future of Employment -- Technology and Human Well-Being -- Technology and Governance -- Technology and Personal Integrity -- Technology and Trust -- References -- Technological Unemployment, Meaning in Life, Purpose of Business, and the Future of Stakeholders -- Abstract -- Two Challenges -- When Robots Take Over -- The Paradox in the Era of Abundance: The Axiological Challenge -- Meaning In Life -- The Contribution Thesis -- The Non-Glamorization Thesis -- Implications for Corporate Purpose -- The Teleological Challenge -- The Future of Stakeholders -- A Proposal: Back to the Greek Agora -- Conclusion -- References -- Is Employee Technological "Ill-Being" Missing from Corporate Responsibility? The Foucauldian Ethics of Ubiquitous IT Uses in Organizations -- Abstract -- Introduction -- Employees' Technological Ill-Being Due to Excessive Ubiquitous IT Use -- Freedom -- Privacy -- Respect -- The Sensitive Question of Responsibility -- Regulating Ubiquitous IT Uses: An Ethical Issue for Managers, a CSR for Organizations? -- A Responsibility Gap: Abdication on Addiction -- A Foucauldian Approach to the Relationship Among Ethics and Responsibilities -- Case Study: Research Method -- Research Design -- Data Collection -- Data Analysis -- Findings. ; Q1: How is the Reality of Technological Ill-Being Framed at the Automotive Group? -- A Strong CSR Policy, Without IT and Technological Ill-Being as Plausible Ethical Issues -- Q2: To What Extent are Organizational Actors Aware of Such Technological Ill-Being? -- From Un-awareness and Denegation to a Recognition of Ubiquitous IT Uses in Practice Calling Ethics to Mind -- Q3: Who is Ethically Responsible for Employees' Technological Ill-Being? -- On the Implicit Emergence of Ethical Self-engagement and Collective Reflexivity -- Theoretical Implications -- Implication 1: Technological Ill-Being-A Neglected Ethical Issue in CSR Policies Conceived of as a Techne -- Implication 2: Technological Ill-Being Unawareness as a Purposeful Abdication of Responsibility -- Implication 3: A Renewed Conception of Ethics as a Practice of the Self, Based on Ethical Awareness and Self-reflexivity, Engaged in Relation to Others -- Toward a Foucauldian Ethics of Ubiquitous IT Uses in Organizations -- Practical Implications: A Call to Create the Conditions of Self-engagement, from Desensitization to Re-sensitizing -- Limitations and Avenues for Research: Shaking Minds Through Better Awareness, Reflexivity, and Self-engagement -- References -- A Micro-ethnographic Study of Big Data-Based Innovation in the Financial Services Sector: Governance, Ethics and Organisational Practices -- Abstract -- Introduction -- Defining Big Data -- Big Data Innovation in Financial Services -- Governance and Ethical Dimensions of Big Data Analytics in Financial Services -- Research Methodology -- Case Study Description -- Data Collection and Analysis Methods -- Results -- The Big Data Moment: The Commoditisation of Payment-Card Data -- Value Proposition, Opt-In and Informed Consent -- Innovation Management within the Company -- Stakeholder Engagement -- Regulatory Environment. ; Towards Professionalisation and Standardisation of Processes -- Governance and Ethics of Big Data Analytics -- Organisational Practices -- Perceptions of Ethical and Responsible Behaviour -- Discussion and Conclusions -- References -- The Challenges of Algorithm-Based HR Decision-Making for Personal Integrity -- Abstract -- A Brief History of Algorithm-Based HR Decision-Making -- Algorithm-Based Decision-Making: Objective, Unbiased, and Efficient? -- The Assumption of Algorithm's Objectivity -- The Underlying Values of Algorithms -- Ethical Challenges to Employees Personal Integrity -- Algorithm-Based Decision-Making Marginalizes Human Sense-Making -- Algorithm-Based Decision-Making Underscores Blind Trust in Rules -- Algorithm-Based Decision-Making Lacks Moral Imagination -- Balancing Tensions Between Compliance and Integrity -- Cushioning the Detrimental Effects of Algorithm-Based HR Decision-Making -- Conclusion -- References -- Digital Trust and Cooperation with an Integrative Digital Social Contract -- Abstract -- Introduction -- Theory Development -- Ethics for the Digital Business Community -- The "Community" in Digital Business -- Risk: The Need for Trust, Trustworthiness, and Cooperation in a Digital Environment -- Applying ISCT to Digital Business Communities -- Contracting ISCT -- Expanding the Moral Community to Digital Business Communities -- Formal Groups Based on Markets -- Formal Groups Based on Mutual Participation or Membership -- Informal Groups -- Value of Applying ISCT to Digital Business Communities -- Trust, Trustworthiness, and Cooperation in Digital ISCT -- Necessary Social Efficiency in Digital Communities -- Trust, Trustworthiness, and Cooperation for Social Efficiency -- Trustworthiness Enabling Trust -- Cooperation Resulting from Trust -- Digital Trust, Trustworthiness, and Cooperation-Building Micronorms. ; Moral Free Space Allows for Micronorm Development -- Communities Develop Digital Trust, Trustworthiness, and Cooperation Micronorms -- Trust, Trustworthy, and Cooperation Micronorms Encourage Efficient Pursuit of Economic Growth -- Examples of Digital Business Communities Encouraging Trust, Trustworthiness, and Cooperation with Micronorms -- Digital Business Communities can Develop Authentic Online Micronorms -- Micronorms of Trust, Trustworthiness, and Cooperation can be Legitimate -- Discussion -- Implications for Theory -- Advantage of Using ISCT for Trust, Trustworthiness, and Cooperation in Digital Business Communities -- Value of a Social Contract without Physical Commitment -- Digital Context Minimizes Significance of Some Critiques of Original ISCT Work -- Implied consent -- Community Dialogues -- Infinite Regress -- Summary -- Future Research -- Implications for Research -- Implications for Business -- References -- Multi-stakeholder Partnerships for Sustainability: Designing Decision-Making Processes for Partnership Capacity -- Abstract -- Introduction -- Context: Local Agenda 21 Multi-stakeholder Partnerships -- Environmental Complexity -- Partnership Capacity -- An Organization Design Perspective of Decision-Making Processes in Multi-stakeholder Partnerships -- Decision-Making Design -- Outcomes of Decentralized Decision-Making -- Mediators of Collaborative Decision-Making -- The Mediating Effect of Information and Communication Systems -- The Mediating Effect of Monitoring and Evaluation Systems -- Methods -- Sample and Procedure -- Measure Development -- Partnership Capacity (PC) -- Collaborative Decision-Making (CDM) -- Information and Communication Systems (COM) -- Monitoring and Evaluation Systems (MonEval) -- Control Variables -- Results -- Measurement Model -- Common Method Variance -- Structural Equation Model -- Discussion. ; Decentralized Decision-Making and Partnership Capacity in Multi-stakeholder Partnerships -- Implications for Practitioners -- Areas for Future Research and Limitations -- Conclusions -- References -- Shine a Light: How Firm Responses to Announcing Earnings Restatements Changed After Sarbanes-Oxley -- Abstract -- Introduction -- Theory and Hypotheses -- The Effect of New Legislation on Firm Behavior -- Coercive Pressure -- Proactive Normative Pressure -- Reactive Normative Pressure -- Sarbanes-Oxley and CEO Change After Restatement Announcements -- The Effect of Media Attention on Firm Behavior -- How Sarbanes-Oxley Amplifies the Effect of Media Attention on Firm Behavior -- Data and Analysis -- Empirical Setting -- Sample -- Measures -- Dependent Variable -- Independent Variables -- Control Variables -- Empirical Strategy -- Results -- Robustness Checks -- Costliness and Visibility -- Timing -- Discussion -- Generalizability and Future Research -- Acknowledgements -- References -- Gender Stereotyping by Location, Female Director Appointments and Financial Performance -- Abstract -- Introduction -- Gender Barriers in Boardrooms -- Regional Differences in Prejudicial Beliefs and Labor Market Outcomes -- Impact of Female Directors on Financial Performance -- Data and Methodology -- Differential Performance Across Regions for Hypothesis 1 -- Firm-Fixed Effects Estimation for Hypotheses 2 and 2a -- Results -- Regional Difference in Female Director Appointment -- Regional Variation in Financial Performance -- Financial Performance Before and After Female Director Appointment -- Robustness Tests -- Discussion and Conclusions -- Acknowledgement -- References -- The Impact of Corporate Tax Avoidance on Board of Directors and CEO Reputation -- Abstract -- Introduction -- Theory and Hypotheses Development. ; Tax Avoidance: The Pursuit of Cash Flows or a Social Irresponsibility?.
• Titolo autorizzato: Business and the ethical implications of technology
• ISBN: 3-031-18794-6
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910629274303321
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