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Alexei M Marcoux
Title: Associate Professor of Business Ethics
Office #: 1 EP 430
Phone: 312-915-6546
E-mail: amarcou@luc.edu


Personal Information

Degrees

  • PhD Bowling Green State University (Applied Philosophy), 2001
  • MA Bowling Green State University (Philosophy), 1995
  • BA University of San Francisco (Economics), 1988

    Additional Graduate and Professional Study:

  • Tulane University (graduate coursework in Economics and Philosophy), 1991-3
  • University of the Pacific, McGeorge School of Law (successful completion of One-L curriculum), 1988-9

Research Interests

  • Moral foundations of commercial transactions
  • Concept of business in business ethics
  • Moral partiality/impartiality in business practice

Professional Associations

  • Association of Private Enterprise Education
  • Society for Business Ethics
  • International Economics and Philosophy Society
  • Michael Oakeshott Association
  • The International Adam Smith Society

Professional Activities

  • Heartland Institute, Policy Advisor
  • Institute for Consumer Antitrust Studies, Advisory Board
  • Journal of Business Ethics, Reviewer (Philosophical Foundations and Corporate Governance sections)
  • Business Ethics Quarterly, Ad Hoc Reviewer

Awards

  • Graduate School of Business Faculty of the Year, Loyola University Chicago, 2005
  • Probationary Faculty Development Grant, Loyola University Chicago, Autumn 2004
  • Faculty Summer Research Fellowship, School of Business Administration, Loyola University Chicago, 2003
  • Philosophy Department Nominee, Distinguished Dissertation Award, Bowling Green State University, 2001
  • H B Earhart Fellowship, Earhart Foundation, 1998-9
  • University Dissertation Fellowship, Bowling Green State University, 1998-9
  • Best Paper Award, Society for Business Ethics Annual Meeting, 1998
  • Best Paper Award, Society for Business Ethics Annual Meeting, 1997

Courses Taught

  • Business Ethics (GB 441)
  • Ethics in Finance (GB 448)

Research Listings


REFEREED PUBLICATIONS
"Much Ado About Price Discrimination," Journal of Markets & Morality, Vol. 9 No. 1 2006

"The Concept of Business in Business Ethics," Journal of Private Enterprise, Vol. 21 No. 2 2006

"A Counterintuitive Argument for Resume Embellishment," Journal of Business Ethics, Vol. 63, No. 2 2006

"Snipers, Stalkers, and Nibblers: Online Auction Business Ethics," Journal of Business Ethics, Vol. 46, No. 2 2003

"A Fiduciary Argument Against Stakeholder Theory," Business Ethics Quarterly, Vol. 13, No. 1 2003

"Freeman and Evan: Stakeholder Theory in the Original Position," Business Ethics Quarterly, Vol. 9, No. 2 1999 , Co-Authors: James W. Child

"Who Are the Stakeholders?: The Failure of the Stakeholder-as-Contractor View," Business & Professional Ethics Journal, Vol. 17, No. 3 1998


PAPERS PRESENTED AT PROFESSIONAL MEETINGS
"Malden Mills: When Being a Good Company Isn't Good Enough," The Good Company: Sixth International Symposium on Catholic Social Thought and Management Education, Pontifical University of St Thomas (Angelicum), Rome, October 2006 , Co-presenting: Al Gini

"Business as a Practice: The Entrepreneurial Conception," Association of Private Enterprise Education Annual Meeting, April 2006

"Friedman's Expertise Argument Revis(it)ed," Association of Private Enterprise Education Annual Meeting, April 2005

"After Hansmann: What Remains of the Corporate Governance Debate?," Accountable Corporation Conference, Santa Clara University, February 2005

"Judeo-Christian Business Ethics: A Cautious Case for Epistemic Authority," The Ethics of Commerce Conference, Institute for Ethics and Spirituality in Business, Loyola University New Orleans, June 2004

"The Abuse and Use of 'Morality Pays'," Society for Business Ethics Annual Meeting, August 2004

"A Counterintuitive Argument for Resume Embellishment," Society for Business Ethics Annual Meeting, August 2003

"Snipers, Stalkers, and Nibblers: Online Auction Business Ethics," Society for Business Ethics Annual Meeting, August 2002

"New Directions in Business Ethics," At Our Best Conference, Santa Clara University, February 2001

"Triadic Stakeholder Theory Reconsidered," Society for Business Ethics Annual Meeting, August 2001

"Conflict or Harmony Among Stakeholder Interests?," Society for Business Ethics Annual Meeting, August 2000

"Comments on Wood and Logsdon, 'Toward a Theory of Business Citizenship'," Sixth Ruffin Lectures in Business Ethics, Darden School, University of Virginia, October 1999

"States of Individual Production and Contractarian Baselines: Donaldson's Project Reconsidered," Society for Business Ethics Session, American Philosophical Association Central Division Meetings, May 1999

"Balancing Act," Society for Business Ethics Session, American Philosophical Association Eastern Division Meetings, December 1998

"A Fiduciary Argument Against Stakeholder Theory," Society for Business Ethics Annual Meeting, August 1998

"Coming to Terms with Consequentialism: Stakeholder Theory and its Conceptual Roots," Society for Business Ethics Session, American Philosophical Association Central Division Meetings, May 1998

"Freeman and Evan: Stakeholder Theory in the Original Position," Society for Business Ethics Annual Meeting, August 1997 , Co-presenting: James W Child

"Stakeholder Theory's Ephemeral Normative Core," Society for Business Ethics Session, American Philosophical Association Central Division Meetings, April 1997 , Co-presenting: James W Child


CONTRIBUTIONS OR CHAPTERS IN BOOKS
""Business Ethics Gone Wrong"," Marc Street eds., Taking Sides: Clashing Views on Management, (McGraw-Hill/Dushkin), 2007

"Social Contract," David S Clark eds., Encyclopedia of Law and Society: American and Global Perspectives, (Sage), forthcoming 2006

"The Libertarian Alternative to Social Justice," Michael J Maher and Daniel Hartnett, SJ eds., Just Readings, (http://www.luc.edu/missionandministry/JustReadings.pdf), 2005

"Business Ethics Gone Wrong," Marc Street eds., Taking Sides: Clashing Views on Controversial Issues in Management, (McGraw Hill/Dushkin), 2005

"Business Ethics Gone Wrong," Parth J Shah eds., Morality of Markets, (Academic Foundation Press/Centre for Civil Society), 2004

"Business Ethics Gone Wrong," Parth J Shah eds., Do Corporations Have Social Responsibility?, (Centre for Civil Society), 2001

"Balancing Act," Joseph R. DesJardins and John J. McCall eds., Contemporary Issues in Business Ethics, (Wadsworth), 4th Ed. 2000


OTHER RESEARCH ACTIVITY
"Remarks on Corporate Social Responsibility," Discussant: Panel on Corporate Social Responsibility, Mid-Continent AACSB Meeting, October 2006

"Reservation Price Deception and Mutually Beneficial Exchange," Invited Talk: Opus College of Business, University of St Thomas (Minnesota), October 2006

""What Are Market Based Arguments Intended to Show?"," Discussant: Panel on Markets and Business Ethics, Society for Business Ethics Annual Meeting, August 2006

"Business-Focused Business Ethics," Invited Talk: Daniels College of Business, University of Denver, January 2006

"Toward an Entrepreneurial Conception of Business," Invited Talk: College of Business, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, March 2006

"Philosophy: Accountants Need It," Invited Talk: College of Business Administration and National Center for Business Ethics, Loyola University New Orleans, February 2006

"Deception and Benefit in Business," Invited Talk: Prudential Lecture, Prudential Business Ethics Center, Rutgers Business School, March 2005

"Reservation Price Deception and Mutually Beneficial Exchange," Invited Talk: Social Philosophy & Policy Center and Department of Philosophy, Bowling Green State University, October 2004

"Employment and Employee Rights," Discussant: Author Meets Critics Panel on Patricia Werhane, et al, 'Employment and Employee Rights', Society for Business Ethics Session, American Philosophical Association Central Division Meetings, April 2004

"Much Ado About Online Price Discrimination," Invited Talk: Department of Management and Markkula Center for Applied Ethics, Santa Clara University, December 2003

"Toward a General Theory of Fiduciary Relations," Invited Talk: Legal Studies Department, The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania, November 2002

"Snipers, Stalkers, and Nibblers: Online Auction Business Ethics," Invited Talk: Department of Management and Markkula Center for Applied Ethics, Santa Clara University, March 2002

"Business Ethics Gone Wrong," Cato Policy Report, Vol. 22, No. 3 2000 , Reprinted by Accessible via Web at: http://www.cato.org/pubs/policy_report/v22n3/cpr-22n3.html

"Shareholder Theory in Schematic Form," Invited Talk: Strategic Management Research Center, Carlson School of Management, University of Minnesota, October 2000

"Conflict or Harmony Among Stakeholder Interests?," Invited Talk: Philosophy Department, Saint Cloud State University, April 2000

"Kantian Approaches to Business Ethics," Discussant: Author Meets Critics Panel on Norman Bowie, 'Business Ethics: A Kantian Perspective', Society for Business Ethics Annual Meeting, August 2000

"Stakeholder Theory: Libertarian Defenses," Discussant: Panel on Stakeholder Theory and Libertarianism, Society for Business Ethics Annual Meeting, August 1999

"Business Ethics: The State of Play," Invited Talk: Philosophy Department, Saint Cloud State University, November 1999

Research in Progress

Title: Reservation Price Deception and Mutually Beneficial Exchange
Area of Research: Moral foundations of commercial transactions

Title: Arbitrage and Extortion in Locke's _Venditio_
Area of Research: Moral foundations of commercial transactions

Title: Toward an Entrepreneurial Conception of Business
Area of Research: Concept of business in business ethics