Society for Business Ethics 2024 Annual Meeting

Paper Abstracts: Session 2

 

Session 2A: Book 1

  • Gustafson, Marcoux And McDonald Engage With James Stacey Taylor About His Book: Markets With Limits: How The Commodification Of Academia Derails Debate

Session 2B: Book 2

  • Coffee With Andrew Lynn, Author Of Saving The Protestant Ethic: Creative Class Evangelicalism And The Crisis Of Work

Session 2C: Book 3

  • Coffee With The Author: Degrowth: An Experience Of Being Finite

Session 2D: Encouraging Women And Organizational Apology

  • You Can’t Win If You Don’t Try: Encouraging Women To Pitch Entrepreneurial Ideas
    • Women are underrepresented in entrepreneurship and when they do pursue entrepreneurship, they face biases in getting funding to succeed, which can have negative broader effects on business ethics more generally. To address these issues, we step back and study differences in women’s intent to pitch entrepreneurial ideas in pitch competitions, which can provide valuable feedback and experience for later pitches to potential investors. We hypothesize that women are less likely to intend to pitch, but that can be overcome by low stakes pitching experiences and all women judges. We find support for our first two hypotheses with a sample of business school students but in a Prolific sample of nascent entrepreneurs, women became less likely, instead of more likely, to pitch after low stakes pitch experience. That may be due to the low stakes pitch experience in the Prolific sample activating stereotype threat, making women more self-conscious, instead of confident. All women judges generally increased the likelihood of pitching, while women were less likely to pitch to all men judges. We contribute to the literature on women entrepreneurship and pitching by suggesting women and discuss potential interventions to help encourage women pitching, and potentially increase women’s entrepreneurship and success.
  • ‘Sorry?’: Organizational Apology As Remedy For Business-Related Human Rights Abuses Case Of The Fair Food Program
    • The organizational apology is an under-examined response to organizational transgressions or crises. This contribution investigates a niche and understudied role of organizational apologies as an integral part of non-state remedial systems for business-related human rights abuses. Empirical data for this research was generated from a case study of the Fair Food Program. The study analyzed the entire remedial system of the Program, and this paper focuses on a unique remedial approach – obligatory apologies within an organization. A literature review of the history of apologies was conducted alongside empirical analysis of data collected from an observation of obligatory apology sessions in the organization. This paper analyzes the effect of enforcement upon organizational apologies and proposes that enforcement of apologies can strengthen the power disruption potential of the phenomenon as well as decrease the potential biased or misleading information in the contextualization of concrete remedial consequences. Both dimensions result in strengthening the effectiveness of remedy, legitimizing rights, and restoring dignity to rightsholders. The paper contributes to the limited existing research on organizational apologies as well as to Business and Human Rights discussions regarding alternative approaches to effective remedy.

Session 2E: Workshop 1

  • Transforming Futures: Integrating Building, Intersectionality, And Love-Centered Approaches Into Business Intelligence Education