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335Is Business Ethics Getting Better? A Historical PerspectiveBusiness Ethics Quarterly 21 (2): 335-343. 2011.This address uses the question “Is business ethics getting better?” as a heuristic for discussing the importance of history in understanding business and ethics. The paper uses a number of examples to illustrate how the same ethical problems in business have been around for a long time. It describes early attempts at the Harvard Business School to use business history as a means of teaching students about moral and social values. In the end, the author suggests that history may be another way to…Read more
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218Leadership EthicsBusiness Ethics Quarterly 5 (1): 5-28. 1995.In this paper I argue that a greater understanding of the part of ethics in leadership will improve leadership studies. Debates over thedefinition of leadership are really debates over what researchers think constitutes good leadership. The ultimate question is not “What is leadership?” but “What is good leadership?” The word good is refers to both ethics and competence. Research into leadership ethics would explore the ethical issues of current leadership research, serve as a critical study of …Read more
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189Ethics, the heart of leadership (edited book)Praeger. 2004.The scope of the issues -- The moral relationship between leaders and followers -- The morality of leaders : motives and deeds -- Puzzles and perils of transformational leadership.
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114The state of leadership ethics and the work that lies before usBusiness Ethics, the Environment and Responsibility 14 (4). 2005.
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104Imagination, Fantasy, Wishful Thinking and TruthThe Ruffin Series of the Society for Business Ethics 1 99-107. 1998.
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93Leadership Ethics: Mapping the TerritoryBusiness Ethics Quarterly 5 (1): 5-28. 1995.In this paper I argue that a greater understanding of the part of ethics in leadership will improve leadership studies. Debates over the definition of leadership are really debates over what researchers think constitutes good leadership. The ultimate question is not "What is leadership?" but "What is good leadership?" The word good is refers to both ethics and competence. Research into leadership ethics would explore the ethical issues of current leadership research, serve as a critical study of…Read more
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84Leadership and the Ethics of CareJournal of Business Ethics 88 (1): 3-4. 2009.The job of a leader includes caring for others, or taking responsibility for them. All leaders face the challenge of how to be both ethical and effective in their work. This paper focuses on the requirement that leaders be present to care for their followers in times of crisis. It examines the story of Nero playing his fiddle while Rome burns. This is a tale that has been repeated in various forms by ancient historians and modern writers. The fact that the story gets repeated through the ages te…Read more
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70Honest work: a business ethics reader (edited book)Oxford University Press. 2011.In today's business world, ethics is not simply a peripheral concern of executive boards or a set of supposed constraints on free enterprise. Ethics stands at the very core of our working lives and of society as a whole, defining the public image of the business community and the ways in which individual companies and people behave. What people do at work--and how they think about work--determines their attitudes and aspirations, affecting and even structuring their personal lives and habits. Wo…Read more
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65In Praise of Nepotism? - In Praise of Nepotism: A Natural HistoryAdam Bellow New York: Doubleday, 2003, 576 pages, ISBN 0-385-49388-6, $30.00 , h.c.; New York: Anchor, 2004, 576 pages, ISBN 0-385-49389-4, $16 pbk (review)Business Ethics Quarterly 15 (1): 153-160. 2005.
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47Guest Editors’ Introduction: Philosophical Contributions to Leadership EthicsBusiness Ethics Quarterly 28 (1): 1-14. 2018.
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42Guest Editors’ Introduction: Philosophical Approaches to Leadership Ethics II: Perspectives on the Self and Responsibility to OthersBusiness Ethics Quarterly 28 (3): 245-250. 2018.
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38On Getting to the Future FirstBusiness Ethics Quarterly 10 (1): 53-61. 2000.This paper will discuss the uncertainty of job tenure, inequality of wages in American business, and the challenges for a creating a new social and moral compact between employer and employee. I begin by arguing that business ethics scholars missed some of the disturbing trends in management thinking because they often focused on current problems in business rather than questioning some of the basic assumptions about the way businesses are managed. As Rochefoucauld observed (albeit in a differen…Read more
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35Business ethics in russia: Business ethics in a new russiaBusiness Ethics, the Environment and Responsibility 3 (1). 1994.As indicated in the previous article, a Russian‐sponsored conference on business ethics was recently held in Moscow. Another participant from the USA, Professor Joanne B. Ciulla, comments here on what could prove to be a new beginning for business in Russia. Professor Ciulla is an Associate Editor of this Review and occupies the Coston Family Chair in Leadership and Ethics at the University of Richmond, Virginia
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33Ethical Business in the USABusiness Ethics, the Environment and Responsibility 1 (1): 58-59. 1992.
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31Imagination, fantasy, wishful thinking and truth: Life is translation and we are all lost in it.(clifford geertz)Business Ethics Quarterly (S1): 99-107. 1998.In “Moral Imagination and the Search for Ethical Decision-Making,” Patricia H. Werhane observes that people and institutions sometimes do unethical things because they have a narrow perspective on their situation and little in the way of moral imagination. She defines moral imagination as “an ability to imaginatively discern various possibilities for acting in a given situation and to envision the potential help and harm that are likely to result from a given action.” Werhane’s paper focuses on …Read more
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31Leadership and the Creation of Corporate Social Responsibility: An Introduction to the Special IssueJournal of Business Ethics 151 (4): 871-874. 2018.
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31Dressing Up Naked LeadershipBusiness and Professional Ethics Journal 32 (3-4): 271-276. 2013.This paper is a commentary on C. Richard Panico’s article “Naked Leadership: Lead to Win Hearts and Minds.” The relationship between academic and practitioner literature on leadership is symbiotic. Both approaches have their limitations. Academic theories may be impractical and practitioner’s ideas are sometimes anecdotal and highly contextual. Yet, as the paper demonstrates, the two literatures can overlap in interesting ways
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30Review of Private Government: How Employers Rule Our Lives (and Why We Don’t Talk About It) by Elizabeth Anderson (review)Journal of Business Ethics 156 (1): 289-292. 2019.
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29From Past and Present Editorial Board Members, Associate Editors, and Advisory Editors: Anniversary ReflectionsBusiness Ethics Quarterly 20 (4): 711. 2010.EDITOR’S NOTE: Business Ethics Quarterly invited a number of scholars involved with BEQ over its first twenty years (especially in its early years, as editors or editorial board members) to offer their reflections on the past, present, and future of business ethics. The resulting comments, which appear below, are as diverse and eclectic as the group of scholars who have given their energies to BEQ over the years.
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27Verizon Lecture: Why Is It So Difficult to Be an Ethical Leader?Business and Society Review 123 (2): 369-383. 2018.In some ways it is more important to understand why it is difficult for leaders to be ethical than it is to understand how to be an ethical leader. By being aware of the common temptations and moral pitfalls of leadership, leaders are better able to avoid them. Like all areas of applied ethics, leadership has its own set of problems that stem from the roles leaders play and their relationship and responsibilities to followers and others. Moreover, leadership is ethically challenging because it a…Read more
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26Business ethics in the USA: Some reasons to smileBusiness Ethics, the Environment and Responsibility 4 (2). 1995.In spite of some recent bad news coming out of America our Associate Editor reports positively on the business ethics scene there both in the business community and in a recent major Conference. She holds the Coston Family Chair in Leadership and Ethics at Jepson School of Leadership Studies, University of Richmond, Richmond, Virginia 23173, USA
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20Habits and Virtues: Does it Matter if a Leader Kicks a Dog?Rivista Internazionale di Filosofia e Psicologia 5 (3): 332-342. 2014.This paper argues that it is reasonable to make attributions about a leader’s character based on minor incidents such as kicking a dog. It begins with a short review of the relevant literature from leadership studies and social psychology on how our prototypes of leaders affect the attributions we make about them. Then the paper examines the role of virtues, habits, and dispositional statements to show why an act such as kicking a dog can offer insight into a leader’s moral character.
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16Business Ethics and Work: Questions for the Twenty‐First CenturyIn Robert Frederick (ed.), A companion to business ethics, Blackwell. 1999.This chapter contains sections titled: Work in business ethics texts Work from the 1950s through the 1980s The state of work in the 1990s Today's problem of work and life Business ethics and work in the twenty‐first century.
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Rutgers University - NewarkProfessor
New York, NY, United States of America
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Business Ethics |
Ethical Leadership |
Ethical Theories in Applied Ethics |
Applied Virtue Ethics |