TY - T1 - Management Approach : The Virtuous Corporation as a Moral Agent for Sustainable Development SN - / UR - http://hdl.handle.net/10138/310476 T3 - International Handbooks in Business Ethics A1 - Heikkurinen, Pasi A2 - Sison, Alejo J.G.; Beabout, Gregory R.; Ferrero, Ignacio PB - Springer Y1 - 2017 LA - eng AB - This chapter examines the corporation as a moral agent for sustainable development. While sustainable development in business organizations can be argued from utility-and duty-based ethical theories, it is suggested that virtue-based ethics is needed to develop a moral agency for sustainable development, as it focuses on the organizational character. In addition, it is proposed that the biosphere (the global sum of all ecosystems) is accepted as the ultimate principal for all planetary agents to... VO - IS - SP - OP - KW - 512 Business and Management N1 - PP - ER -