Business ethicists have a point when ethics and interests do not clash. The current surge in corporate ethics has resulted in an odd irony: the more established the subject gets in business schools, the more perplexing—and even off-putting—it looks to actual managers. The difficulty is that business ethics has yet to give any real assistance to managers in either of these areas, and even business ethicists recognize this. One can't help but note how frequently papers in the area lament a lack of direction or a poor match with real-world ethical issues confronting real-world managers. Far too many business ethicists have held a rare moral high ground, disconnected from the great majority of managers' genuine concerns and real-world issues. They have been excessively obsessed with absolutist conceptions of what it means for managers to be ethical, with overly broad criticisms of capitalism as an economic system, with thick and abstract theorizing, and with prescriptions that only relate tangentially to management practice.

Anjali Krishna SS

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