What is it about?
This article draws upon Aristotle's 'Nicomachean Ethics', and comparison with writing on ethics in medicine and other established professions, as a basis for theorising about management consultancy ethics.
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Why is it important?
The literature on management consultancy ethics is sparse, even though the work of many academics, writing from a critical perspective, raises significant questions about the ethics of management consulting practice. This article identifies the distinctiveness of management consulting practice from an ethical perspective, and sets out propositions as to how management consultants and the firms that employ them should act in order to meet good ethical standards.
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I hope through this article to have highlighted the paradox that, although management consulting is perhaps the archetypal 'knowledge-intensive industry', there is no generally accepted body of management consultancy knowledge, and to have drawn attention to the implications of this paradox for the ethics of management consulting practice.
Dr David Shaw
Independent Researcher
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This page is a summary of: Aristotle and the Management Consultants: Shooting for Ethical Practice, Philosophy of Management, December 2019, Springer Science + Business Media,
DOI: 10.1007/s40926-019-00125-w.
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