Johannes Brinkmann

Gyldendal Akademisk

Ubehagelig næringslivsetikk II p. 32-41

Ubehagelig næringslivsetikk II p. 162-175

Ubehagelig næringslivsetikk II p. 177-196

Journal of Business Ethics Education 14 Doi: https://doi.org/10.5840/jbee20171413

Journal of Business Ethics Education 14 Doi: https://doi.org/10.5840/jbee2017149

Journal of Business Ethics p. 1-15 Doi: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10551-017-3636-x

Journal of Business Ethics 139 p. 619-631 Doi: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10551-015-2655-8

After a selective review of relevant literature about teaching business ethics, this paper builds on a summary of Fred Bird’s thoughts about the voicing of moral concerns provided in his book about moral muteness (1996). Socratic dialogue methodology (in the tradition of L. Nelson and G. Heckmann) is then presented and the use of this methodology is examined, for business ethics teaching in general, and for addressing our paper topic in particular. Three short form Socratic dialogues about the paper topic are summarized for illustration, together with preparation and debriefing suggestions for a Socratic dialogue unit as part of a business ethics course. In conclusion, Socratic dialogue design is related to the experiential learning approach, and characterized by a few basic traits, which imply both risks and opportunities for business ethics teaching.

Business and the Greater Good: Rethinking Business Ethics in an Age of Crisis p. 240-261 Doi: https://doi.org/10.4337/9781784711771.00020

Fremdsprachenunterricht im Spannungsfeld zwsichen Sprachwissen und Sprachkönnen p. 385-398

Journal of Business Ethics 112(4) p. 567-583 Doi: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10551-012-1558-1

Journal of Business Ethics 103(Supplement 1) p. 63-76 Doi: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10551-012-1223-8

Microinsurance is the provision of insurance services to the poor, usually in developing countries. One of the key criteria of poverty is vulnerability even to minor events. In such cases even micro coverage can make a major difference, yet still be funded by an affordable contribution by the insured. Like any kind of insurance, microinsurance can cover different risks to life, health, farming, property among other things. Our paper sketches how one could address and develop microinsurance business ethics. First we introduce microinsurance to the business ethics community and business ethics to the microinsurance community. Our draft of microinsurance ethics is then developed from two angles: as a holistic understanding of ideals and possible ethical conflicts in key stakeholder relationships and by distinguishing eight challenges when targeting the poor and when marketing microinsurance. As an open ending, the paper suggests a three stage action research design focusing on how microinsurance could (and should) internalize ethics, respecting rather than neglecting national-cultural and local-cultural conditions.

På tvers. Festskrift til Ove Jakobsen p. 79-92

Journal of Business Ethics 103(Supplement 1) p. 17-32 Doi: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10551-012-1226-5

Insurance fraud and abuse—international concerns—are inherent in the proposition of insurance and prevalent in insurer-insured interactions. While the subject of considerable industry and regulatory attention, this little-researched area of consumer behavior and consumer ethics represents persistent social policy questions and problems at multiple levels. This paper addresses the issue by first defining insurance fraud and its origins in contract, as well as consumer- and insurer-management. The authors conclude by re-envisioning the problem as one of co-creation by the consumer-insured and insurer personnel, proposing a framework for its study and resolution.

Journal of Business Ethics Education 8

Experiences in Teaching Business Ethics p. 27-51

Experiences in Teaching Business Ethics p. 83-96

Responsibility, Deep Ecology and the Self: Festschrift in Honor of Knut J. Ims p. 189-198

Journal of Business Ethics 84(Suppl. 1) p. 11-24 Doi: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10551-008-9688-1

To celebrate the 100th anniversary of Norwegian playwright Henrik Ibsen’s death, during 2006 quite a number of cultural events were launched (cf. http://www.ibsen.net/). The paper suggests to celebrate Ibsen as a potentially useful resource for business ethics teaching. Departing from a short presentation of Ibsen’s plays An enemy of the people and A doll’s house the main focus of Our paper is on two selected scenes from the latter piece – both as raw material for developing scenarios for moral maturity assessment (one of them is strikingly similar to and different from Heinz’ dilemma), and for teaching business students moral reflection and imagination. As an open end of the paper a few wider questions are asked about the use of literature in addition to or instead of ethics when it comes to triggering moral reflection and imagination.

Journal of Business Ethics 88(1) p. 65-82 Doi: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10551-009-0099-8

This article uses sociological role theory to help understand ethical challenges faced by Norwegian real estate agents. The article begins with an introductory case, and then briefly examines the strengths and limitations of using legal definitions and rules for understanding real estate agency and real estate agent ethics. It goes on to argue that the ethical challenges of real estate agency can be described and understood as a system of conflicting roles with associated rights and duties, in particular sales agent, intermediary and adviser sub-roles. The arguments are developed using exploratory findings from a survey of Norwegian real estate agents and from several focus groups. The article then suggests the use of various intranet tools as a kind of action research aimed at putting ethics on the real estate agents’ agenda, working to develop a collective conscience and collective selfcriticism among the agents, and, in doing so, building bridges between academic research and the practical working world of the agents.

EJBO - Electronic Journal of Business and Organization Ethics 13(1) p. 22-29

Ch. Garsten and T. Hernes (eds.), Ethical Dilemmas in Management

Journal of Business Ethics 81(3) p. 623-634 Doi: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10551-007-9536-8

Vocational ethics and vocational moral socialization are important for the business ethical climate in a given country and in a given industry, but have not received attention in the literature. Our article suggests vocational ethics as a legitimate sub-specialty for business ethics research and development. The article addresses the exposure of vocational students to a combination of vocational school-based and workplace-based socialization, and outlines an agenda for teaching-oriented research and research-based teaching. More specifically, we first draft a conceptual frame of reference and then report results and experiences from a scenario-based pilot study at one of the biggest vocational schools in the country. As a third step such a preliminary situation analysis inspires a number of suggestions for how one could start with developing this field, practically, empirically and theoretically.

Forbrukersosiologi. Makt, tegn og mening i forbrukersamfunnet, G.E. Schjelderup og M.W. Knudsen, (red) p. 405-438

Insurance Ethics for a More Ethical World, Flanagan,Primeaux, Ferguson (eds), Research in Ethical Issues in Organizations, vol 7

P.E. Murphy and G.R. Laczniak, eds., 2006, Marketing Ethics, Cases and Readings

Journal of Business Ethics 66 p. 177-195

Most consumer morality studies focus on consumer immorality, i.e. different types and degrees of consumer dishonesty or deviance. This paper follows this tradition, by looking at insurance customer dishonesty. For looking at insurance customer dishonesty in a wider perspective, the paper drafts a sociology of insurance customer morality, including outlines of micro-level, meso-level and macro-level moral sociologies of insurance fraud, as well as a discussion of moral heterogeneity and a critical understanding of deviance. As a next step a few empirical rsearch questions are formulated and illustrated with data from a Norwegian-German pilot study.

Journal of Business Ethics 61 p. 183-197

Journal of Business Ethics Education 2(2) p. 151-170

Journal of Business Ethics 51(2) p. 129-141

Journal of Business Ethics 53(1/2 Special Issue) p. 123-136

Departing from frequent use of moral conflict cases in business ethics teaching and research, the paper suggests an elaboration of a moral conflict approach within business ethics, both conceptually and philosophically. The conceptual elaboration borrows from social science conflict research terminology, while the philosophical elaboration presents casuistry as a kind of practical, inductive argumentation with a focus on paradigmatic examples.

Journal of Business Ethics 45 p. 243-256

Teaching Business Ethics 7 p. 69-86

? 12(3) p. 265-274

Med forskerblikk på verdier p. 259-269

Teaching Business Ethics 6 p. 83-99

? p. 14-14

? 3(1) p. 58-76

Journal of Business Ethics 41 p. 159-177

Journal of Business Ethics 35 p. 327-339

I. Koall et al., Vielfalt statt Leid(t)kultur p. 113-120

Beta – Scandinavian Journal of Business Research 15(1) p. 35-49

Teaching Business Ethics 5 p. 171-193

? 10(4) p. 311-319

Teaching Business Ethics p. 1-23

? 9(3) p. 163-173

? 9(1) p. 73-82