The Federal Reserve Bank of New York recently released a podcast series focused on Banking Culture Reform: Norms, Mindsets, and Decision-Making (https://www.newyorkfed.org/podcast). The series of nine episodes dives into banking culture reform, examining the norms and mindsets that contribute to ethical decision-making. I discuss my work on moral character in Episode 2: Exploring the Predictive […]
SBE is seeking members to serve on a new Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) committee, as we consider how we might make SBE more welcoming to more people. The committee will make recommendations to the Board. Current SBE members interested in serving on the DEI committee are invited to fill out this form, aware that […]
Kirchschläger, P. G. (2021). Digital Transformation and Ethics: Ethical Considerations on the Robotization and Automatization of Society and Economy and the Use of Artificial Intelligence. Baden-Baden: Nomos. This book discusses digitalization, robotization, and automation of society and of the economy and the use of artificial intelligence from an ethical perspective. After an introduction on the […]
Mir, R., & Greenwood, M. (2021). Philosophy and Management Studies: A Research Overview. Routledge; Abingdon, UK Irrespective of whether one thinks of philosophy explicitly, each organizational researcher is a philosopher. A philosophical position is predicated on a variety of approaches relating to ontology, epistemology, methodology, ethics, and political positions. Depending on where one stands with […]
The Managing Editor’s perch gives one a unique perspective on a journal and the scholars in a discipline. When Gary Weaver asked me to become Managing Editor, he said “BEQ takes a developmental approach. I know we’re doing a good job when we receive thank you notes even from people whose papers we reject.” I […]
Ignacio Ferrero, Ron Beadle and Marta Rocchi have been awarded third place in the 4th Edition of the Business Ethics Research Prize organized and sponsored by Bankinter Consumer Finance and the Business Ethics Chair at ICADE Business School (Spain). The prize was awarded for their article, “Can Finance Be a Virtuous Practice? A MacIntyrean Account” published in Business Ethics […]
When a for-profit enterprise asserts a right to religious freedom, how should we think about the morality of such a claim? One approach views the enterprise as a “corporate moral person” and then extends strong freedoms to it based upon perceived responsibilities toward moral personhood. Another approach moves in an opposite direction, viewing the enterprise […]
Professor Nien-hê Hsieh of Harvard Business School will be serving as the Acting Director of Harvard University’s Edmond J. Safra Center for Ethics for the 2021-2022 academic year. Learn more about Professor Hsieh here: https://ethics.harvard.edu/people/nien-hվ-hsieh
Download the full details here > Georges Enderle proposes a radically new understanding of corporate responsibility in the global and pluralistic context. This book introduces a framework that integrates the ideas of wealth creation and human rights, which is illustrated by multiple corporate examples, and provides a sharp critique of the maximizing shareholder value ideology. […]
Denis Collins passed away, at home in Madison and surrounded by family, on February 25. Denis was a longtime member of SBE, Professor Emeritus at Edgewood College School of Business and Visiting Professor at UW-Madison, and the donor of the newly-announced SBE Best Practical Solutions Award. He was a widely-appreciated member of the community of […]
