zfwu is a scholarly journal. Through its interdisciplinary theoretical and practical orientation at the crossroads of economics and (practical) philosophy, it primarily provides the discipline as well as interested representatives of business, politics and other relevant institutions with a high level business and economic ethics discussion forum. The languages of publication are German and English.
This article reconstructs the problem situation and unfolding of Karl Homann’s theory program for an economically informed order ethics. A distinction is made between three phases with two phase transitions. This interpretation of Homann's whole...
This paper develops a new proposal for a coherentist business ethic in which ethically justified and empirically supported proposed solutions to economic problems are developed through a coherentist process of adjustments between the three levels of...
Karl Homann’s conception works with the economic analysis tool of ›dilemma structures‹. This model logic can depict characteristic features of modern competitive structures, but it is missing something, namely the dimension of time – and...
Over the last 50 years, Karl Homann has presented a comprehensive research program of a ›philosophical ethics with economic method‹. The present contribution aims at appreciating this research program in three steps: 1) reconstruction of this...
Karl Homann, whose business ethics is committed to an institutional-ethical approach that works with methods of economics, also dealt with the individual-ethical question of the social responsibility of business elites and in this context, addressed...