Organizations involve joint production where members engage in purposive coordination and cooperation with others. Scholars have often noted the importance of “moral factors” in facilitating such collaboration but previous research has not adequately explained the nature of these moral factors, how they are embodied within joint production, or why organization members willingly adhere to them. We draw upon virtue ethics to address these questions. We argue that joint production represents a distinct, organization-level practice embodying morally salient standards of professional excellence that contribute to the development of members’ virtues through habituation. We then elaborate microfoundations for this account, developing a virtue ethical account of human agency as directed toward human flourishing such that members willingly adhere to organizational norms and values when they coherently embody goods that contribute to human flourishing.

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联合生产的美德：协作组织的伦理基础

组织涉及联合生产，其中成员与他人进行有目的的协调与合作。学者们经常注意到“道德因素”在促进这种合作中的重要性，但以前的研究并没有充分解释这些道德因素的性质，它们如何体现在联合生产中，或者组织成员为什么愿意遵守它们。我们利用美德伦理来解决这些问题。我们认为，联合生产代表了一种独特的组织层面的实践，体现了专业卓越的道德显着标准，通过习惯化有助于成员美德的发展。然后，我们为这个帐户详细说明了微观基础，