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Daryl Koehn
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    The Ground of Professional Ethics.Daryl Koehn - 1994 - New York: Routledge.
    As each week beings more stories of doctors, lawyers and other professionals abusing their powers, while clients demand extra services as at a time of shrinking resources; it is imperative that all practising professionals have an understanding of professional ethics. In _The Ground of Profesional Ethics_, Daryl Koehn discusses the practical issues in depth, such as the level of service clients can justifiably expect from professionals, when service to a client may be legitimately terminated and circumstances in which client confidences (...)
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  2. A Role for Virtue Ethics in the Analysis of Business Practice.Daryl Koehn - 1995 - Business Ethics Quarterly 5 (3):533-539.
    This article explores differences in the ways in which utilitarian, deontological and virtue/aretic ethics treat of act, outcome, and agent. I argue that virtue ethics offers important and distinctive insights into business practice, insights overlooked by utilitarian and deontological ethics.
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  3. Rethinking feminist ethics: care, trust and empathy.Daryl Koehn - 1998 - New York: Routledge.
    Rethinking Feminist Ethics bridges the gap between women theorists disenchanted with aspects of traditional theories that insist upon the need for some ethical principles. The book raises the question of whether the female conception of ethics based on care, trust and empathy can provide a realistic alternative to the male ethics based on duty and rule bound conception of ethics developed from Kant, Mill and Rawls. Koehn concludes that it cannot, showing how problems for respect of the individual arise also (...)
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    Virtue Ethics, the Firm, and Moral Psychology.Daryl Koehn - 1998 - Business Ethics Quarterly 8 (3):497-513.
    Business ethicists have increasingly used Aristotelian “virtue ethics” to analyze the actions of business people and to explore the question of what the standard of ethical behavior is. These analyses have raised many important issues and opened up new avenuesfor research. But the time has come to examine in some detail possible limitations or weaknesses in virtue ethics. This paper arguesthat Aristotelian virtue ethics is subject to many objections because the psychology implicit within the ethic is not well-suited for analyzing (...)
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    Integrity as a Business Asset.Daryl Koehn - 2005 - Journal of Business Ethics 58 (1-3):125-136.
    . In this post-Enron era, we have heard much talk about the need for integrity. Today’s employees perceive it as being in short supply. A recent survey by the Walker Consulting Firm found that less than half of workers polled thought their senior leaders were people of high integrity. To combat the perceived lack of corporate integrity, companies are stressing their probity. This stress is problematic because executives tend to instrumentalize the value of integrity. This paper argues that integrity needs (...)
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    What can eastern philosophy teach us about business ethics?Daryl Koehn - 1999 - Journal of Business Ethics 19 (1):71 - 79.
    This paper examines what, if anything, "Eastern philosophy" can teach us about business ethics. The whole idea of "Eastern ethics" or so-called "Asian values" is suspect on a number of scores. The paper argues that It is better to refer to specific ideas of particular thinkers influential within one country or tradition. The paper concentrates on the philosophy of two such thinkers – Watsuji Tetsuro of Japan and Confucius. When this more "micro" approach is adopted, we can learn some important (...)
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    How Would Confucian Virtue Ethics for Business Differ from Aristotelian Virtue Ethics?Daryl Koehn - 2020 - Journal of Business Ethics 165 (2):205-219.
    Confucianism is potentially relevant to business ethics and business practice in many ways. Although some scholars have seen Confucian thought as applicable to corporate social responsibility :433–451, 2009) and to corporate governance :30–43, 2013), only a few business ethicists :415–431, 2001b; Journal of Business Ethics 116:703–715, 2013; Romar in Journal of Business Ethics 38:119–131, 2002; Lam in The Analects, Penguin Classics, London, 2003; Chan in Journal of Business Ethics 77:347–360, 2008; Woods and Lamond in Journal of Business Ethics 102:669–683, 2011) (...)
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    East Meets West: Toward a Universal Ethic of Virtue for Global Business. [REVIEW]Daryl Koehn - 2013 - Journal of Business Ethics 116 (4):703-715.
    Rudyard Kipling famously penned, “East is East, West is West, and never the twain shall meet.” His poetic line suggests that Eastern and Western cultures are irreconcilably different and that their members engage in fundamentally incommensurable ethical practices. This paper argues that differing cultures do not necessarily operate by incommensurable moral principles. On the contrary, if we adopt a virtue ethics perspective, we discover that East and West are always meeting because their virtues share a natural basis and structure. This (...)
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    Confucian Trustworthiness and the Practice of Business in China.Daryl Koehn - 2001 - Business Ethics Quarterly 11 (3):415-429.
    Confucius’s teachings fall under four headings: “culture, moral conduct, doing one’s best, and being trustworthy in what one says” (7/25).1 Trust or, more precisely, being trustworthy, plays a central role in the Confucian ethic. This paper begins by examining the Confucian concept of trustworthiness. The second part of the paper discusses how the ideal of trustworthiness makes itself felt inbusiness practices within China. The paper concludes by raising and addressing several objections to the Confucian emphasis ontrustworthiness.
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    A Defense of a Thomistic Concept of the Just Price.Daryl Koehn & Barry Wilbratte - 2012 - Business Ethics Quarterly 22 (3):501-526.
    Since St. Thomas Aquinas was one of the first scholastics to analyze the idea of a “just price,” economists, economic historians and philosophers interested in the philosophical underpinnings of the market have focused on Aquinas’s writings. One group insists that Aquinas defined the just price as the payment needed to cover sellers’ labor and material costs. A second camp vehemently counters that Aquinas’s just price is simply the going market price. We argue that neither of these views is correct. The (...)
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    Transforming Our Students: Teaching Business Ethics Post-Enron.Daryl Koehn - 2005 - Business Ethics Quarterly 15 (1):137-151.
    Teachers and managers strive to be determining causes, leading those whom we instruct or supervise to act in some ways rather than others. If we are seeking to be causes, then we ought to admit our mission and monitor how well we are doing. Yet, instead of owning up to our failures, we hide behind claims such as “some students are unteachable because their habits are bad,” or “we have little time to affect our students who are being indoctrinated by (...)
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    The Nature of and Conditions for Online Trust.Daryl Koehn - 2003 - Journal of Business Ethics 43 (1/2):3 - 19.
    As use of the Internet has increased, many issues of trust have arisen. Users wonder: will may privacy be protected if I provide information to this Internet vendor? Will my credit card remain secure? Should I trust that this party will deliver the goods? Will the goods be as described? These questions are not merely academic. A recent Boston Consulting Group study revealed that one out of ten consumers have ordered and paid for items online that never were delivered (Williams, (...)
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    Why Saying "I'm Sorry" Isn't Good Enough.Daryl Koehn - 2013 - Business Ethics Quarterly 23 (2):239-268.
    The number of corporate apologies has increased dramatically during the past decade. This article delves into the ethics of apologies offered by chief executive officers (CEOs). It examines ways in which public apologies on the part of a representative (CEO) of a corporate body (the firm) differ from both private, interpersonal apologies, on the one hand, and nation-state/collective apologies, on the other. The article then seeks to ground ethically desirable elements of a corporate apology in the nature or essence of (...)
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    A virtue ethics critique of ethical dimensions of behavioral economics.Daryl Koehn - 2020 - Business and Society Review 125 (2):241-260.
    Behavioral economics is the latest trendy form of economics. Increasingly theorists are advocating using behavioral economics to do normative ethics or claiming that the behavioralists’ findings render normative claims otiose. I argue in this paper that we should be extremely wary when it comes to accepting any such normative pronouncements. I argue that behavioral economics: (a) minimizes and/or misunderstands the role that character and architectonic life goals play in accounting for the why of ethical behavior, (b) fundamentally misconceives human practical (...)
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    Applying Aristotelian and Confucian Virtue Ethics to Humane Work in the Business Context.Daryl Koehn - 2022 - Humanistic Management Journal 7 (2):189-209.
    What is humane work? What does such work look like in a business context? This paper articulates two ways of thinking about humane work using an Aristotelian and a Confucian virtue ethics approach. This approach reveals the need to think about (1) work’s connection not merely with autonomy but with self-refinement and self-perfection, with craft, and with the production of genuinely good goods; (2) possible dangers (e.g., the risk of generating envy) of focusing too much on pay issues in connection (...)
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    Business and game-playing: The false analogy. [REVIEW]Daryl Koehn - 1997 - Journal of Business Ethics 16 (12-13):1447-1452.
    A number of business writers have argued that business is a game and, like a game, possesses its own special rules for acting. While we do not normally tolerate deceit, bluffing is not merely acceptable but also expected within the game of poker. Similarly, lies of omission, overstatements, puffery and bluffs are morally acceptable within business because it, like a game, has a special ethic which permits these normally immoral practices. Although critics of this reasoning have used deontological and utilitarian (...)
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    Why Saying "I'm Sorry" Isn't Good Enough.Daryl Koehn - 2013 - Business Ethics Quarterly 23 (2):239-268.
    The number of corporate apologies has increased dramatically during the past decade. This article delves into the ethics of apologies offered by chief executive officers (CEOs). It examines ways in which public apologies on the part of a representative (CEO) of a corporate body (the firm) differ from both private, interpersonal apologies, on the one hand, and nation-state/collective apologies, on the other. The article then seeks to ground ethically desirable elements of a corporate apology in the nature or essence of (...)
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    Toward an Ethic of Exchange.Daryl Koehn - 1992 - Business Ethics Quarterly 2 (3):341-355.
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    A Response to Rorty.Daryl Koehn - 2006 - Business Ethics Quarterly 16 (3):391-399.
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    Do Investors See Value in Ethically Sound CEO Apologies? Investigating Stock Market Reaction to CEO Apologies.Daryl Koehn & Maria Goranova - 2018 - Journal of Business Ethics 152 (2):311-322.
    Since the late 1990s, the number of apologies being offered by CEOs of large companies has exploded. Communication and management scholars have analyzed whether and why some of these apologies are more effective or more ethical than others. Most of these analyses, however, have remained at the anecdotal level. Moreover, the practical, economic consequences of apologies have not been examined. Almost no rigorous or systematic empirical work exists that examines whether stakeholders reward firms whose CEOs give apologies that are more, (...)
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    On Responsibility in China: Understanding and Practice.Xiaohe Lu & Daryl Koehn - 2015 - Journal of Business Ethics 127 (3):607-622.
    “Responsibility” in Chinese consists of two words: “ze” and “ren” . In modern Chinese, although the two words “ze” and “ren” are mostly used as one word, people can still discern the close relationship between ze and right and between ren and the duty associated with a position or a power. In modern life, however, there is a serious problem with these historically close, key relationships. This paper raises the crucial question: how should we understand and deal with the separation (...)
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    Living with the dragon: thinking and acting ethically in a world of unintended consequences.Daryl Koehn - 2010 - New York: Routledge.
    Preliminary definitions and distinctions -- Causes of unintended consequences -- The challenges unintended consequences pose for standard moral frameworks -- Possible ethical remedies.
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    A Response to Rorty.Daryl Koehn - 2006 - Business Ethics Quarterly 16 (3):391-399.
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    Can and should businesses be friends with one another and with their stakeholders.Daryl Koehn - 1998 - Journal of Business Ethics 17 (15):1755 - 1763.
    An increasing number of philosophers have suggested that businesses be conceived on the model of friendship. The paper sketches two different models of friendship – Aristotelian and Kantian. This paper examines whether and in what sense these models are appropriate to business. Care must be taken to specify which type of friendship is meant before treating businesses as friendships. Whether businesses can be friends with one another and with their stakeholders depends crucially upon the type of friendship involved.
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    Ethics, Morality, and Art in the Classroom.Daryl Koehn - 2010 - Journal of Business Ethics Education 7:213-232.
    Scholars are increasingly interested in possible relationships between aesthetics and ethics and in the pedagogical value of art. This paper considers some specific works of art and explores their multi-faceted relation to ethics and morality. I argue that art has both positive and negative relationships to ethics and morality (which I distinguish in a very rough way as the paper progresses). Art works of various sorts may productively be used in the business ethics classroom,but instructors need to keep in mind (...)
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    Ethical issues connected with multi-level marketing schemes.Daryl Koehn - 2001 - Journal of Business Ethics 29 (1-2):153 - 160.
    Multi-level marketing (MLM) schemes are one of the fastest growing types of business. However, little has been written about the ethics of MLMs. This oversight is somewhat surprising, especially because some prominent MLMs have been accused of being pyramid schemes. Pyramid schemes were the number one type of internet fraud in 1996, and the fourth most common form of internet fraud in 1997 (National Consumers League, 1997). This paper examines the nature of MLMs and their similarities with and differences from (...)
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    Ethics in a Technological Age.Daryl Koehn - 1999 - Business and Society Review 104 (1):57-90.
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    Ethics, Morality, and Art in the Classroom.Daryl Koehn - 2010 - Journal of Business Ethics Education 7:213-232.
    Scholars are increasingly interested in possible relationships between aesthetics and ethics and in the pedagogical value of art. This paper considers some specific works of art and explores their multi-faceted relation to ethics and morality. I argue that art has both positive and negative relationships to ethics and morality (which I distinguish in a very rough way as the paper progresses). Art works of various sorts may productively be used in the business ethics classroom,but instructors need to keep in mind (...)
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    The Ethics of Quality: Problems and Preconditions. [REVIEW]Mohamad R. Nayebpour & Daryl Koehn - 2003 - Journal of Business Ethics 44 (1):37 - 48.
    A number of advocates for TQM contend that firms who embrace TQM will automatically and naturally act in ethically sound ways (Roth, 1993; Pace, 1999; Steeples, 1994). This claim is a strong one. This paper assesses its truth. We consider the many ways in which quality initiatives, if undertaken in good faith, can foster sound ethics. We explore the various ways in which TQM presupposes, and thus cannot engender, ethical behavior. And, finally, we identify some of the ethical blind spots (...)
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    What Is Practical Judgement?Daryl Koehn - 2000 - Professional Ethics, a Multidisciplinary Journal 8 (3):3-18.
  31. The nature of evil.Daryl Koehn - 2005 - New York: Palgrave-Macmillan.
    In The Nature of Evil, Daryl Koehn takes us on a sweeping tour of different interpretations of evil. In this timely and serious discussion she argues that evil is not intentional malice, but rather violence that stems from a false sense of self. Violence is not true evil but a symptom of the underlying evil of our failure to really know who we are. Koehn examines situations in which good intentions can have horrific results. She explores such works as The (...)
     
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    Local Insights, Global Ethics for Business.Daryl Koehn (ed.) - 2001 - Rodopi.
    This book evaluates strategies for managing ethical conflict. Macro-approaches that attribute select values to entire peoples and claim supremacy for these values are suspect. A micro-approach, focusing on the ethics of individual thinkers, is better. The study uses the ethics of Confucius and Tetsuro Watsuji to derive a process-based universal ethic that respects local differences yet is not relativistic.
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    The ethics of business: Moving beyond legalism.Daryl Koehn - 1996 - Ethics and Behavior 6 (1):1 – 16.
    The economist Milton Friedman argued that business has only one ethical responsibility: Business has a responsibility to employ all available legal means to increase corporate profits owed to stockholders (Friedman, 1993). In this article, I explore why business students find this argument so attractive. I then argue that, as an account of business ethics, Friedman's legalism is both theoretically and practically unsound. I close with some suggestions as to what would constitute a truly ethical understanding of business practice.
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  34. Trust and Business.Daryl Koehn - 1997 - Business and Professional Ethics Journal 16 (1-2):7-28.
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    Traversing the Inferno.Daryl Koehn - 2000 - Business Ethics Quarterly 10 (1):255-268.
    The discipline of business ethics traditionally has paid too much attention to articulating and applying the moral law and has devoted too little thinking to the nature and consequences of evil for our souls. For purposes of this discussion, I shall limit myself to Dante’s vision of evil as a diminution of human being. On his journey through hell, Dante encounters the shades—people who, through their own actions, have rendered themselves less than fully human. This paper concentrates especially on the (...)
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    Post-credit crisis: what new concepts are needed? Which old notions or practices should be abandoned? [REVIEW]Daryl Koehn - 2012 - Asian Journal of Business Ethics 1 (1):35-45.
    The recent financial meltdown in the US mortgage markets and the ongoing budgetary crises in Europe suggest that we are at an economic and ethical crossroads. What has caused the problems? Do we need to rethink in some fundamental way our ethical notions and some of our practices? These questions clearly are not separable, for, as I shall argue, some of our ideas about corporate responsibilities, technological innovations, and nation states’ ability to regulate corporations have been a cause of the (...)
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  37. Aesthetics and Business Ethics.Dawn Elm & Daryl Koehn (eds.) - 2013 - Dordrecht: Imprint: Springer.
    Ludwig Wittgenstein famously said, "Ethics is aesthetics." It is unclear what such a claim might mean and whether it is true. This book explores contentious issues arising at the interface of ethics and aesthetics. The contributions reflect on the status of aesthetic en ethical judgments, the relation of aesthetic beauty and ethical goodness and art and character development. The book further considers the potential role art could play in ethical analysis and in the classroom and explores in what respects aesthetics (...)
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  38. Does not mean that he must be ruthless, cruel.Daryl Koehn - forthcoming - Ethics in the Workplace: Selected Readings in Business Ethics.
     
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  39. Ethical issues in human resources.Daryl Koehn - 2002 - In Norman E. Bowie (ed.), The Blackwell Guide to Business Ethics. Blackwell. pp. 6--225.
     
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  40. Spotting Ethical Spin-Offs: A Review of Michael Santoro’s Profits and Principles - Profits and Principles: Global Capitalism and Human Rights in ChinaMichael A. Santoro Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 2000 $26.00. [REVIEW]Daryl Koehn - 2003 - Business Ethics Quarterly 13 (2):257-260.
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  41. Snow Brand Milk Products (A).Jenny Mead, Regina Wentzel Wolfe, Akira Saito & Daryl Koehn - 2010 - Journal of Business Ethics Education 7:103-116.
    This three-case series examines the dilemma that faced the Japanese company Snow Brand Milk Products (SBM) as it confronted the task of rebuilding and revitalization after a series of scandals, many self-induced, had threatened the company’s future. The A case begins in spring 2002 when leading consumer activist Nobuko Hiwasa was invited to join Snow Brand’s board of directors. The CEO wanted her to assist in SBM’s revitalization efforts, which were beingimplemented in the wake of two recent scandals—contaminated milk and (...)
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  42. Snow Brand Milk Products (C).Jenny Mead, Regina Wentzel Wolfe, Akira Saito & Daryl Koehn - 2010 - Journal of Business Ethics Education 7:125-127.
    In the C case, the turnaround at SBM has been effected. Most significant is the company’s realization that it exists to serve the consumer and, through that service, the broader society. This brief case outlines the successes Hiwasa pushed SBM management to accomplish and introduces the challenges the company faced in 2009: primarily, continuing to build its corporate social responsibility approach and addressing environmental and social issues.
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    The Ethics of Policing. [REVIEW]Daryl Koehn - 1996 - Teaching Philosophy 19 (4):412-415.
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    Capitalism & ethics.Gabriel Flynn, Michael Aßländer & Daryl Koehn - 2023 - Business Ethics, the Environment and Responsibility 32 (S1):1-3.
    Business Ethics, the Environment &Responsibility, Volume 32, Issue S1, Page 1-3, April 2023.
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    Re-Thinking Power - Kinds of PowerJames Hillman New York: Doubleday, 1995.Daryl Koehn - 1998 - Business Ethics Quarterly 8 (1):179-186.
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    Narrative Business Ethics Versus Narratives Within Business Ethics: Problems and Possibilities From an Aristotelian Virtue Ethics Perspective.Daryl Koehn - forthcoming - Journal of Business Ethics:1-17.
    Applied ethicists’ interest in narratives and narratives ethics has grown steadily. Some thinkers position narratives as supplements to ethics, while others see narratives as new form of ethics comparable to virtue or deontological ethics. In this paper, I analyze some of the main ethical claims being made on behalf of business and literary narratives from the perspective of Aristotelian virtue ethics. I argue that, while narratives can significantly contribute to the development of our character, to a better grasp of virtues (...)
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    Report from the President.Daryl Koehn - 2003 - The Society for Business Ethics Newsletter 13 (4):1-1.
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    Figures of Evil in the Business World.Daryl Koehn - 2003 - Business and Professional Ethics Journal 22 (3):3-21.
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    Re-thinking Power. [REVIEW]Daryl Koehn - 1998 - Business Ethics Quarterly 8 (1):179-186.
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    CIC Report.Daryl Koehn & Lu Xiaohe - 2008 - The Society for Business Ethics Newsletter 19 (1):4-5.
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