Leadership and Business Ethics

Gabriel Flynn completed his doctorate at the University of Oxford in 2000. He is the editor of the first edition of Leadership and Business Ethics, Issues in Business Ethics Series 25 (First Edition, Springer, 2008). Flynn is a reviewer of papers at the Journal of Business Ethics (JBE) and Business Ethics: A European Review and elsewhere. He is a member of the organizing committee for the International Vincentian Business Ethics Conference (IVBEC), a forum where he seeks to refocus conceptual work about commerce and business practices in a way that overcomes disparities between theory and practice in the era of global enterprise. 

Introduction; Gabriel Flynn & Patricia H. Werhane.- Business Ethics: Europe versus America; Domènec Melé.- Part I Individual Level Business Leadership.- Leadership and the Challenge of Character and Corporate Reputation; Miguel Alzola.- The Virtuous Manager: A Vision for Leadership in Business; Gabriel Flynn (Revised).- Socratic Questions and Aristotelian Answers: A Virtue-based Approach to Business Ethics; Edwin M. Hartman.- Business Ethics beyond the Moral Imagination: A Response to Richard Rorty; Paul T. Harper (Revised).- Inspirational Leadership and Strategic Vision in the Business World; Brian Leavy (Revised).- Using Discernment to make Better Business Decisions; Margaret Benefiel.- Responsible Leadership beyond Managerial Rationality: The Necessity of Reconnecting Ethics and Spirituality; Johan Verstraten.- People in Business: Context and Character; James G. Murphy (Revised).- Part II: Organizational Level Business Leadership.- Ethical Leadership Challenges as refracted through the OCAI Model: An Instrument for Analysing an Organisation’s Culture; Daryl Koehn (New).- How Losing Soul Leads to Ethical Corruption in Business; Ronald Duska and Julie Anne Ragatz.- Corporate Culture and Organizational Ethics; David Smith and Louise Drudy.- Values in the Marketplace: What is Ethical Retailing? Paul Whysall.- Part III: Societal Level Business Leadership.- Global Women Leaders and the Challenge of Ethics; Regina Wentzel Wolfe (New).- The Marketing of Human Images as a Challenge to Ethical Leadership; Robert Audi.- Management and the Challenge of Ethical Leadership; Patrick Flood and Johan Coetsee (New).- Alternative Business Ethics: A Challenge for Leadership; Donal Dorr (Revised).- Overcoming the Disparities between Theory and Practice in Corporate Governance: The Role of Ethical Leaders in Business, Finance, and Commerce; Stephen Bloomfield (New).- The UN Global Compact: The Challenge and the Promise; Oliver F. Williams (new).- Corporate Citizenship: The Dark-Side Paradoxes of Success; Sandra Waddock.- Corporate Social Responsibility, Corporate Moral.-Responsibility, and Systems Thinking: Is There a Difference and the Difference it Makes; Patricia H. Werhane.- Public Policy: The Global Parameters of Governance and Information Technology; Con Power and Vincent J. McBrierty (New).