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John Boatright

John Boatright
Title: Professor
Office #: McGuire Hall 420
Phone: 312-915-6994
E-mail: jboatri@luc.edu


Personal Information

Degrees

  • Ph.D., University of Chicago, 1971
  • M.A., University of Chicago, 1966
  • B.A., College of Wooster, 1964

Research Interests

  • Business ethics, with current work on ethical issues in corporate governance and ethics in finance.

Professional Associations

  • Academy of Legal Studies in Business
  • Academy of Management 
  • American Philosophical Association
  • Association for Practical and Professional Ethics
  • European Business Ethics Network
  • International Association for Business and Society
  • International Economics and Philosophy Society
  • International Society of Business, Economics, and Ethics
  • Society for Business Ethics

Professional Activities

  • President of the Society for Business Ethics, 1997-98. Executive Director, Society for Business Ethics, 2000-2004. Member of the Executive Committee, 1994-2004.
  • Editorial Board of Business Ethics Quarterly, Journal of Business Ethics, and Business and Society Review.

Courses Taught

  • Business Ethics
  • Ethical Aspects of Corporate Decision Making
  • International Business Ethics

Research Listings


REFEREED PUBLICATIONS
"Is There an Internal Morality of Contracting?," Academy of Management Review, 32(1) 2007

"What's Wrong--and What's Right--with Stakeholder Management," Journal of Private Enterprise, 21(2) 2006

"Individual Responsibility in the American Corporate System," Business & Professional Ethics Journal, 23(1-2) 2004

"Individual Responsibility and the Sarbanes-Oxley Act," Government Law and Policy Journal, 6 2004

"Employee Governance and the Ownership of the Firm," Business Ethics Quarterly, Winter 2004

"Introduction to the Special Issue in Finance," Business Ethics Quarterly, 13 2003 , Co-Authors: Jeffrey Peterson

"Contractors as Stakeholders: Reconciling Stakeholder Theory with the Nexus-of-Contracts Firm," Journal of Banking and Finance, 2002

"The Future of Corporate Social Responsibility," Business and Professional Ethics Journal, 2001

"Conflicts of Interest in Financial Services," Business and Society Review, 2000

"Globalization and the Business of Ethics," Business Ethics Quarterly, 2000

"Does Business Ethics Rest on a Mistake?," Business Ethics Quarterly, 1999

"The Ethics of Arbitration in the Securities Industry," Business and Society Review, 1998

"Teaching Finance Ethics," Teaching Business Ethics, 1998

"Business Ethics and the Theory of the Firm," American Business Law Journal, 34 1996

"Fiduciary Duties and the Shareholder-Management Relation: Or, What's So Special about Shareholders?," Business Ethics Quarterly, 4 1994


PAPERS PRESENTED AT PROFESSIONAL MEETINGS
"Reluctant Guardians: The Responsibility of Gatekeepers for Effective Corporate Governance," Conference on Freedoms and Responsibilities for Business in China, Second World Forum on China Studies, Shanghai Academy of Social Science, Shanghai, China, September 20-22 2006

"Reluctant Guardians: The Responsibility of Gatekeepers for Effective Corporate Governance," Transatlantic Business Ethics Conference, The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania,, October 6-7 2006

"What�s Right�and What�s Wrong�with Stakeholder Management,," University of Montreal, Montreal, Canada, February 23 2006

"Intermediaries and Gatekeepers: The Responsibility of Banks for the (Mis)Conduct of Their Clients," Arbeitsgruppe Compliance und Ethik in Finanzinstitutionen im Deutschen Netzwerks Wirtschaftsethik, Amsterdam, May 12-13 2005

"Ethics, Risk Management and Corporate Governance: The Role of Gatekeeper Institutions," Bentley Conference on Ethics and Risk Management in a Global Economy, May 23 2005

"Individual Responsibility in the American Corporate System: Does Sarbanes-Oxley Strike the Right Balance?," Ethics in the Financial Services after Sarbanes-Oxley, Carlson School of Management, University of Minnesota, April 15-17, 2004; Annual Meeting, Society for Business Ethics, New Orleans, LA, August 5-8, 2004., 2004

"Is Corporate Governance an Obstacle to Redefining Success? Some Thoughts on Shareholder Ownership and the Pursuit of Multiple Objectives," Third Transatlantic Business Ethics Conference, ESADES Business School, Barcelona, Spain, October1-3, 2004; Eleventh Annual International Business Ethics Conference,� DePaul University, Chicago, IL, October 21-23., 2004

"Conflict of Interest in Financial Services: A Contractual Risk-Management Analysis," The Hastings Center, Garrison, NY, April 10, 2003; Tenth Annual Meeting Promoting Business Ethics, St. John's University, 2003

"Employee Governance and the Ownership of the Firm," the Rector Dhanis Chair Lecture, University of Antwerp (UFSIA), Antwerp, Belgium, April 29, 2002; Research Center for Applied Ethics, Chinese Academy of Social Science, Beijing, China, September 24, 2002; University of Tennessee, Knoxville, February 7, 2003; Conference �Business Ethics in a Global Economy,� Santa Clara University, February 20-22, 2003; American Philosophical Association, Pacific Division, San Francisco, March 29, 2003; College of Wooster, November 9, 2003

"How to Think about Corporate Governance," Association for Practical and Professional Ethics, Cincinnati, OH, 2002

"The Future of Business Ethics," At Our Best: Moral Lives in a Moral Community, Santa Clara University, 2001

"Conflicts of Interest in Financial Services," Seventh Annual International Conference, Promoting Business Ethics, New York, 2000

"The New Institutional Economics: Can It Contribute to Business Ethics?," Transatlantic Business Ethics Summit, Budapest University of Economic Sciences, Budapest, Hungary, 2000

"Hostile Takeovers in Global Capital Markets: Lessons from the United States for Europe," Second World Congress of the International Society for Business, Economics, and Ethics, Sao Paulo, Brazil, 2000

"Teaching Financial Ethics in a Global Age," Seventh World Forum of the International Association of Jesuit Business Schools, Puebla, Mexico, 2000

"Contractors as Stakeholders: Reconciling Stakeholder Theory with the Nexus of Contracts Firm," Conference �Measuring and Managing Ethical Risk: How Investing in Ethics Adds Value University of Notre Dame, 1999

"Does Business Ethics Rest on a Mistake?," Presidential Address to the Society for Business Ethics, San Diego, 1998

"The Search for the Normative Core: Normative Stakeholder Theory and the Agency Theory of the Firm," International Society for Business and Society, Kailua-Kona, HI, 1998

"Teaching Finance Ethics," Association for Practical and Professional Ethics, Seventh Annual Meeting, Dallas, 1998

"Staking Claims: The Role of Shareholders in the Contractual Theory of the Firm," Allied Social Sciences Association, Chicago, 1998

"The Contractual Theory of the Firms as a Normative Business Ethics and Its Relationship to Roman Catholic Social Teaching on Economic Life," Second International Symposium on Catholic Social Thought and Management Education, Antwerp, Belgium, 1997 , Co-presenting: Michael J. Schuck


BOOKS AND MONOGRAPHS
Ethics and the Conduct of Business, 5th ed. (Prentice Hall) , 2007

Ethics and the Conduct of Business, 4th ed. (Prentice Hall) , 2003

Ethics and the Conduct of Business, 3rd ed. (Prentice Hall) , 2000

Ethics in Finance (Blackwell Publishers) , 1999

Ethics and the Conduct of Business, 2nd ed. (Prentice Hall) , 1997


CONTRIBUTIONS OR CHAPTERS IN BOOKS
"Ethics for a Post-Enron America," Paul H. Dembinski eds., Enron and the World of Finance: A Case Study in Ethics, (Palgrave), 2006

"Corporate Governance: Justifying the Role of Shareholders," Norman E. Bowie eds., Blackwell Guide to Business Ethics, (Blackwell Publishers ), 2002

"Financial Services," Michael Davis and Andrew Stark eds., Conflict of Interest in the Professions, (Oxford University Press), 2001

"Finance Ethics," R.. E. Frederick eds., A Companion in Business Ethics , (Blackwell Publishers), 1999

"Globalism and the National Interest: The Implications for Corporate Society Responsibility," W. M. Hoffman, J. B. Kamm, and R. E. Frederick eds., Emerging Global Business Ethics, (Quorum Books), 1994

"Conflict of Interest: An Agency Analysis," R. Edward Freeman and Norman E. Bowie eds., Ethics and Agency Theory, (Oxford University Press), 1992

"Tender Offers: An Ethical Perspective," W. M. Hoffman, R. E. Frederick, and E. S. Petry, Jr. eds., The Ethics of Organizational Transformation: Mergers, Takeovers and Corporate Restructuring, (Quorum Books), 1989


BOOK REVIEWS
John Roberts, "The Modern Firm: Organizational Design for Performance and Growth," Business Ethics Quarterly, 16(1) 2006

"Contract Theory and Business Ethics: A Review of Ties that Bind," Business and Society Review, 2000

"Aristotle Meets Wall Street: A Review of Ethics and Excellence," Business Ethics Quarterly, 5 1995


OTHER RESEARCH ACTIVITY
"Ethics for a Post-Enron America," Phi Kappa Phi Forum, Spring 2003 , Reprinted by Annual Editions: Business Ethics 04/05, 16th Edition (McGraw-Hill/Dushkin, 2004), 190-194; and Annual Editions: Business Ethics 05/06, 17th Edition (McGraw-Hill/Dushkin, 2005), 176-80.

"Ethics in Finance," International Banking Summer School, Lillehammer, Norway, 2003

"Eight �Ethics Boxes�," Investments: A Global Perspective (Prentice Hall), 2002 , Co-Authors: Jack C. Francis and Roger Ibbotson

"Lessons from the Recent American Scandals," Peking University, Chinese Center for Economic Research, 2002

"Normative Aspects of the Contractual Theory of the Firm," Seminar for economics faculty, University of Antwerp, 2002

"The New Role of Business in Society," The Cahill Lecture, University of Notre Dame, 2001

"Codes of Ethics and Oversight of Compliance with the Codes," 2000 Investment Company Directors Conference, Washington, D.C., 2000

"Virtue in Markets: A Look at the Ethical Challenges in an Era of Technology, Returns and Temptation," Seventh Annual International Conference, Promoting Business Ethics, New York, 2000

"Ethics and Global Economics: Corporations, Communities, and Challenge," Western Illinois University, Macomb, 1998

"Ethical Issues in Soft Money Transactions," Wharton Impact Conference on Ethical Issues in Financial Services, The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, 1998

"Comparable Worth," Blackwell Dictionary of Business Ethics, (Blackwell Publishers), 1997

"Fiduciary Duty," Blackwell Dictionary of Business Ethics, (Blackwell Publishers), 1997

"New Directions in Ethics and Law," Midwest Business Administration Association, Chicago, 1997