Wesley Cragg
[photopress:cragg.jpg,thumb,alignright]Schulich School of Business
George R. Gardiner Professor of Business Ethics
Cross-appointed to Department of Philosophy, Faculty of Arts Director, Business Ethics Program
Schulich School of Business, Room N210
Tel: 416-736-2100 x20686 (voicemail)
Tel: 416-736-5809 (voicemail)
E-mail: cragg@yorku.ca
Research Interests
Business ethics; professional ethics, ethics and work; law and ethics; moral, social, political and legal theory.
Selected Publications
“Accountability, Ethics and the Academy: Lesson from Business Ethics and the Private Sector?” Canadian Journal of Higher Education, forthcoming.
“Human Rights and Business Ethics: Fashioning a New Social Contract,” Journal of Business Ethics, forthcoming.
“Business, Globalization and the Logic and Ethics of Corruption,” International Journal, Vol. LIII, No. 4. Autumn 1998.
“Ethics and Restructuring: Obstacles, Challenges and Opportunities,” in The Ethics of the New Economy: Restructuring and Beyond, Ed. Leo Groarke, Waterloo: Wilfred Laurier Press, 1998, pp. 287–301.
“Teaching Business Ethics: The Role of Ethics in Business and Business Education,” Journal of Business Ethics, Vol 16, No. 3, Feb 1997.
Current Projects
Voluntary Codes and the Regulation of International Business
Globalization has altered in significant ways the tools available to regulate international commerce. One result is the emergence of international ethics codes, codes of responsible conduct and best practice codes designed to win adherence to internationally acceptable norms of conduct on the part of corporations and other organizations interacting in the global market place. What is significant about these developments is the emerging emphasis on self regulation as the primary mode of implementation. This project will describe, analyze and evaluate these developments with particular focus on the following topic areas: human rights, environmental regulation, international finance, bribery and corruption and the treatment of labour. Research findings will be disseminated through a series of workshops and an international conference co-sponsored by project partners.
Ethics and the Academy
This project looks at the role of ethics codes in addressing a wide range of issues in teaching and research in the contemporary university.
Values, The Environment, and the Use of Natural Resources
Most Canadians assign a high priority to protecting the environment. Yet there are sharp differences about what that means for such things as the exploitation of natural resources. Effective communication, conflict resolution and policy development requires an understanding of those differences. This project is designed to advance that understanding by developing a thorough, systematic, interdisciplinary analysis of the values Canadians are bringing to debates about appropriate and inappropriate uses of natural resources as well as the environmental and ethical principles on which those values are grounded.
Additional information on Wes Cragg
Business Ethics web site
