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Denis G. Arnold's Research

What follows is a list of many of my published essays and a few of my longer encyclopedia publications. The one’s highlighted in orange can be downloaded as a PDF file. If you wish to obtain a copy of the other essays you can request a copy from me via email at darnold1@utk.edu.

Agency & Coercion

  • Arnold, Denis G. “Corporate Moral Agency.” Midwest Studies in Philosophy, Volume XXX: “Shared Intentions and Collective Responsibility” (2006): 279-291.

  • Arnold, Denis G. “Coercion and Moral Responsibility.”American Philosophical Quarterly, 38: 1 (January 2001): 53-67.

Ethics & Global Labor Practices
(The Sweatshop Problem)

  • Arnold, Denis G. "Working Conditions: Safety and Sweatshops" (10,000 words) in TheOxford Handbook of Business Ethics, eds. George Brenkert and Tom Beauchamp. Oxford University Press, forthcoming.

  • Arnold, Denis G. and Norman E. Bowie. “Respect for Workers in Global Supply Chains: Advancing the Debate Over Sweatshops.” Business Ethics Quarterly 17:1 (January 2007): 135-145.

  • Arnold, Denis G. and Laura P. Hartman. "Worker Rights and Low Wage Industrialization: How to Avoid Sweatshops." Human Rights Quarterly 28,3 (August 2006): 676-700.

  • Laura P. Hartman and Denis G. Arnold. “Les Multinationales et L’Avenir des Sweatshops.” In Jean-Jacques Rose, ed. Responsabilité sociale de l’entreprise: Pour nouveau contra social. De Boeck, 2006.

  • Arnold, Denis G. and Laura P. Hartman. “Beyond Sweatshops:  Positive Deviancy and Global Labor Practices.”  Business Ethics:  A European Review, 14: 3 (July 2005): 206 – 222.

  • Arnold, Denis G. and Norman E. Bowie. “Sweatshops and Respect for Persons.” Business Ethics Quarterly 13: 2 (April 2003): 221-242. Reprinted in:
    • Frederick R. Adams, Ethical Issues in the 21 st Century: Essays Commemorating the 100 th Anniversary of the American Philosophical Association, PDC Press, 2003;
    • Tom Beauchamp and Norman E. Bowie, eds., Ethical Theory and Business, 7th ed., Prentice-Hall, 2003;
    • Laura P. Hartman, Perspectives in Business Ethics, 3 rd ed. McGraw Hill, 2004;
    • Joseph R. DesJardiins and John J. McCall, Contemporary Issues in Business Ethics, 5 th ed., Wadsworth 2004;
    • Lisa Newton and Maureen Ford, eds., Taking Sides: Clashing Views on Controversial Issues in Business Ethics and Society, Dushkin-McGraw Hill, 9 th ed. 2006;
    • Tom Beauchamp, Norman E. Bowie and Denis G. Arnold, eds., Ethical Theory and Business, 8th ed., Prentice-Hall, 2007;
    • Christina Sommers, Vice and Virtue in the Business World, Wadworth 2008.

  • Arnold, Denis G. “Moral Reasoning, Human Rights, and Global Labor Practices.” In Rising Above Sweatshops: Innovative Management Approaches to Global Labor Practices, Laura P. Hartman, Denis G. Arnold, and Richard Wolkutch, eds., Praeger 2003. Reprinted in:
    • Ethical Theory and Business, 7th ed., Tom Beauchamp and Norman E. Bowie, eds. Prentice-Hall, 2003.

  • Arnold, Denis G. and Laura P. Hartman. “Moral Imagination and the Future of Sweatshops.” Business and Society Review, 108: 4 (Winter 2003): 425-461.

  • Arnold, Denis G. “Exploitation and the Sweatshop Quandary.” Business Ethics Quarterly 13: 2 (April 2003): 243-256. A review essay of Exploitation by Alan Wertheimer and The Sweatshop Quandary: Corporate Responsibility on the Global Frontier by Pamela Varley, ed.

Global Business Ethics
(But Not Sweatshops)

  • Arnold, Denis G. “International Business Ethics” (6,000 word entry). Encyclopedia of Business Ethics and Society, ed. Robert W. Kolb. Sage, 2007.

  • Arnold, Denis G. “The Human Rights Obligations of Multinational Corporations" in David Crowther and Nicholas Capaldi, eds., Companion to Corporate Social Responsibility, Ashgate, forthcoming.

  • Arnold, Denis G. “The Ethics of Global Outsourcing” in Gabriel Flynn, ed., Leadership and Values for Business: European and American Perspectives. Springer, forthcoming.

  • Arnold, Denis G. “Libertarian Theories of the Corporation and Global Capitalism." Journal of Business Ethics, 48: (December 2003): 155-173.

Business Ethics and the Natural Environment

  • Arnold, Denis G. and Keith Bustos. "Business, Ethics, and Global Climate Change." Business and Professional Ethics Journal, 22: 2/3 (Summer/Fall 2005): 103-130. To be reprinted in:
    • Tom Beauchamp, Norman E. Bowie and Denis G. Arnold, eds., Ethical Theory and Business, 8th ed., Prentice-Hall, 2007.

  • Arnold, Denis G. “ Moral Imagination, Stakeholder Engagement, and Genetically Modified Organisms ” in Robert W. Kolb, ed., The Ethics of Genetic Commerce. Blackwell, 2007.

  • Arnold, Denis G. “Texaco in the Ecuadorean Amazon.” In Ethical Theory and Business, 6th ed., Tom Beauchamp and Norman E. Bowie, eds. Prentice-Hall, 2001. Expanded, revised, and reprinted in:
    • Ethical Theory and Business , 7th ed., Tom Beauchamp and Norman E. Bowie, eds. Prentice-Hall, 2003; and
    • Case Studies in Business Ethics , 2nd ed.. Al Gini, ed., Prentice Hall, 2004.
    • Honest Work: A Business Ethics Reader , Joanne Ciulla, Robert Solomon, and Clancy Martin, eds., Oxford University Press, 2006.
    • Ethical Theory and Business , 8th ed., Tom Beauchamp, Norman E. Bowie and Denis G. Arnold, eds. Prentice-Hall, 2007.

Other Business Ethics

  • Arnold, Denis G. “The Ethics of Direct to Consumer Pharmaceutical Marketing” in Denis G. Arnold, ed., Ethics and the Business of Biomedicine, forthcoming

  • Arnold, Denis G. “The Practice of Business in the Kingdom of Ends ” in Jeffery Smith, ed., Normative Theory and Business. Rowman & Littlefield, forthcoming.

  • Arnold, Denis G. and Scott J. Reynolds. “Business Ethics Research” (6,000 word entry). Encyclopedia of Business Ethics and Society, ed. Robert W. Kolb. Sage, 2007.

  • Arnold, Denis G. “Corporate Moral Agency.” Midwest Studies in Philosophy, Volume XXX: “Shared Intentions and Collective Responsibility” (2006): 279-291