Categoría: Papers

Pinto-Garay, J., Ferrero, I.; Scalzo, G.

Philosophy of Management

2021 (accepted) 

Pricing policies and fair-trade practices are critical for sustaining commercial relationships between firms and customers. Nevertheless, in current business practices, fairness has been mistakenly reduced to a minimalistic ethic wherein justice only demands legal and explicit norms to which commercial parties voluntarily agree. Aimed at giving a different explanation of commercial agreements, this paper will introduce a Virtue Ethics (VE) explanation of the relationship between pricing and the common good by taking up classical concepts related to justice in commerce. In particular, we will explore three principles associated with the notion of fairness in commerce as defined in Neo-Aristotelian ethics towards a relationship between a common good and justice in pricing, i.e., proportionality, benevolence and well-being. To exemplify how these criteria of justice apply to decision-making in commercial practices, we will discuss several cases of fair and unfair commercial relationships.

Pinto-Garay, J., Rodriguez-Lluesma, C.; Scalzo, G.

Philosophy of Management

2021 (accepted) 

Alasdair MacIntyre´s criticism to Modernity is essentially referred to the problem of compartmentalization, restricting the possibility to achieve excellence in an integral lifestyle. Among other reasons, compartmentalization is derived especially from an insulated valorization of the workplace because of a reductionist understanding of productivity in terms of mere efficiency. Contrary to this, MacIntyre has mention the importance to understand productivity in terms of craftmanship. Hence, this paper is aimed to explain what excellence in production is— i.e., craftmanship – and what role plays in achieving a unity of life and excellence in modern corporations. 

Pinto-Garay, J.

Revista Empresa y Humanismo

Vol. XVI, N° 1, 2013, 27-52.

Abstract

La presente investigación busca participar de la discusión contemporánea que ha presentado la necesidad de fundamentar la ciencia administrativa y la teoría de las organizaciones a partir del concepto de phronesis en Aristóteles. De modo específico, el objetivo del artículo es desarrollar un argumento que, siguiendo dicha discusión, introduzca la interpretación tomista de la prudencia. En efecto, el concepto de racionalidad práctica que aporta Tomás de Aquino permitiría concebir una teoría de la prudencia empresarial que no sólo explique la estructura de la acción directiva, sino también todas las tareas que se desarrollan en la empresa.

Pinto-Garay, J. & Letelier, G.

Revista Empresa y Humanismo

Vol. XIX, nº 2, de 2016.

Abstract

El presente artículo quiere describir la relación entre división del trabajo y ética en las teorías de Adam Smith, Karl Marx y Karol Wojtyla. De este modo se intenta no sólo mostrar los elementos sustanciales del concepto de trabajo en estos tres autores, sino también cómo hay una relación conceptual entre ellos, en tanto que Wojtyla reacciona a la antropología marxista y el mismo Marx lee y hace una interpretación original de Smith

Pinto-Garay, J.

Business and Professional Ethics Journal

Volume 34, Issue 1, Spring 2015

Abstract:

This article proposes a theory of the firm based on the concept of common good provided by the Aristotelic-Thomistic (A-T) and Catholic Social Thought (CST) traditions, with particular attention given to the concept of work. We argue that the incorporation of a concept of work, based on the A-T and CST traditions, provides a better understanding of the firm’s common good in terms of sociability, cooperation, personal fulfillment and friendship. In this manner, taking into account an A-T and CST concept of work, we provide a better understanding of different aspects in which the common good can be achieved within the firm.

 

Pinto-Garay, J. & Ferrero, I.; Scalzo, G.

Business and Professional Ethics Journal

2021

Abstract

This paper aims to integrate the concept of autonomous and subordinated work into Aristotelian organizational theory by enhancing the epistemological framework of neo-Aristotelianism and by adding a Thomistic interpretation of organizational practical knowledge. We sustain that, in order to advance our understanding of the firm in terms of excellence and the common good, the concept of practical knowledge applied to organizational theory requires reflection on the nature of work in modern organizations. For this, we will explain (i) how an organization that aims for excellence is most appropriately defined as a community of autonomous work, (ii) how practical knowledge in organizations must be defined considering work as deliberative production and, finally, (iii) how productivity in organizations is best described when work is envisioned in terms of autonomy and

subordination

Rodríguez-Lluesma, C; García-Ruiz, P; Pinto-Garay, J.

Business Ethics: European Review

2020

Abstract

A conversation about the current and potential effects of digital technologies on the nature of work is raging within scholarly and practitioner communities. Artificial intelligence, robotics, data analytics, digital platforms, and automation, among other technologies, are prompting a swift and profound transformation of work. Building on Pierpaolo Donati’s relational sociology, we examine the changes these technologies are likely to bring about in work as a human relation. Despite the very real threats of unemployment, job insecurity, precariousness, and surveillance, technology may also encourage the emergence of a work culture that shifts the scales toward a relational realm rather than a transactional one. To this end, we argue that work should be understood as a social relation with four dimensions: exchange value, intrinsic extra-economic purpose, communication for reciprocal services, and correspondence with primary human needs according to use values. Understanding the digital transformation of work from this point of view requires comprehending the differentiation and integration of these four dimensions.