About the Authors

Peter Bowden was coordinator of the MBA program at Monash University and subsequently Professor of Administrative Studies at the University of Manchester. His background in institutional strengthening includes extensive advisory work with the World Bank, Asian Development Bank and UN agencies. He lectures in ethics in the Faculty of Engineering; and is an Honorary Research Associate in the Department of Philosophy at Sydney University. In 2013 he edited Applied Ethics under the auspices of the The Australian Association for Professional and Applied Ethics (AAPAE). In 2014 he published his research on whistleblowing under the title “In the Public Interest.” He holds a BE in Engineering, an MSc with Distinction from the London School of Economics and a PhD from Monash University.

Hugh Breakey is a Research Fellow at Griffith University’s Institute for Ethics, Governance and Law, Australia. His work stretches across the philosophical sub-disciplines of political theory, legal philosophy, normative ethics and applied philosophy. His articles explore ethical issues arising in such diverse fields as peacekeeping, institutional governance, climate change, sustainable tourism, private property, medicine and international law, published in journals including The Philosophical Quarterly, The Modern Law Review and Political Studies. In 2012 he authored Intellectual Liberty: Natural Rights and Intellectual Property (Ashgate). Since 2013, Hugh has served as President of the Australian Association for Professional and Applied Ethics.

Tim Cadman is a Research Fellow in the Institute of Ethics, Governance and Law at Griffith University. He is an Earth Systems Governance Fellow, a Member of the Australian Centre for Sustainable Business and Development, and is on the Editorial Board of the Journal of Sustainable Finance and Investment. He specialises in global environmental governance, natural resource management, climate change policy and responsible investment. His book Climate Change and Global Policy Regimes: Towards Institutional Legitimacy was published by Palgrave Macmillan in 2013.

Paul A. Cimbala (PhD, U.S. History, Emory University) is a Professor in the Department of History at Fordham University, The Bronx, New York, USA. He is author or editor of numerous books on the American Civil War and Reconstruction including Soldiers North and South, The Great Task Remaining Before Us: Reconstruction as America’s Continuing Civil War, Under the Guardianship of the Nation: The Freedmen’s Bureau and the Reconstruction of Georgia, 1865–1870 and Veterans North and South: The Transition from Soldier to Civilian after the American Civil War.

Charles J. Coate a Professor of Accounting and Chair of the Department of Accounting in the School of Business at St Bonaventure University, earned his PhD from the University of Maryland at College Park. His research interests include business ethics, theoretical and practical service based learning, and professional and policy based audit and accounting issues. He has received the Francis Medal (for Service) awarded by the Holy Name Province, OFM.

Rebecca J. Glover (PhD in Human Development, Texas Tech University) is a Professor in the Department of Educational Psychology at the University of North Texas, Denton, Texas, USA. Her scholarship regarding moral functioning has focused on perspective-taking and decision-making across late adolescence and young adulthood. Her work assessing moral content in media contributed to the emerging consensus that moral reasoning affects comprehension of the relevance of behaviours observed and how those understandings are incorporated into interactions with and perceptions of others. She is currently working on a study of moral exemplarity across the lifespan.

Howard Harris graduated in Chemical Engineering and worked in industry and commerce before returning to university to complete his PhD in Applied Philosophy. He teaches applied ethics and related social topics to undergraduate business students at the University of South Australia Business School and online through Open Universities Australia. He is a former President of the Australian Association for Professional and Applied Ethics and Convenor of the Group for research in Integrity and Governance.

Mark C. Mitschow, Professor of Accounting at SUNY-Genesco College, earned his PhD from the University of Maryland at College Park, SUNY. His research interests revolve around business ethics, auditing, small business and behavioural accounting. His research has been published in scholarly journals including Research on Professional Responsibility and Ethics in Accounting, Journal of Business Ethics and Review of Business. In 2010 he received the SUNY Chancellor’s Award for Excellence in Scholarship and Creative Activities. He is on the editorial board of Research on Professional Responsibility and Ethics in Accounting and Journal of Business and Behavioral Sciences.

Timothy O’Shannassy is a Senior Lecturer in the Graduate School of Business and Law at RMIT University, Australia where he teaches strategic management and entrepreneurship. He has previously taught at University of Melbourne and was Visiting Scholar at University of Maryland in 2007. Tim has extensive teaching experience with Open Universities Australia, in Hong Kong and Malaysia. He consults to business and has taught on numerous executive development programs for companies including Ford Motor Company and Mandarin Oriental Hotels. Tim is Associate Editor of Journal of Management & Organization, the journal of the Australian and New Zealand Academy of Management.

Karen Palmunen (PhD in French, Brown University) is Associate Professor of French, Emerita, and former Director of the First Year Seminar Program at the University of Saint Joseph, West Hartford, Connecticut, USA. Her scholarly projects have included work on Madame de Stael, French food and culture, adult-learner foreign language pedagogy, and development and implementation of First-Year seminar programs.

Charles Sampford graduated top of his class in Politics, Philosophy and Law at Melbourne University, combining those disciplines in his Oxford DPhil. He was Foundation Dean of Law, Griffith University (1991). In 1998, he led a bid for the Key Centre for Ethics, Law, Justice and Governance and was its Foundation Director. In September 2004 Charles became Director, Institute for Ethics, Governance and Law. Foreign fellowships include Visiting Senior Research Fellow, St John’s College Oxford (1997) and a Senior Fulbright Award, Harvard University (2000). He has written over 106 articles and chapters and has completed 23 books and edited collections.

Michael Schwartz is an Associate Professor of Business Ethics in the School of Economics, Finance & Marketing at the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology. He is a past president of the Australian Association for Professional and Applied Ethics. He is a member of the editorial boards of the Journal of Applied Ethics and the Journal of International Business & Law; and a joint editor of Research in Ethical Issues in Organizations. His research in the field of business ethics has been published in the Electronic Journal of Business Ethics & Organization Studies, the Australian Journal of Professional & Applied Ethics, the Australian Journal of Social Issues, Ethics & Education, Business Ethics Quarterly, Business Ethics: A European Review, the Journal of Business Ethics and Research in Ethical Issues in Organizations.

Elizabeth C. Vozzola (PhD in Applied Developmental Psychology, Fordham University) is the Director of the Honors Program and a Professor in the Department of Psychology at the University of Saint Joseph, West Hartford, Connecticut, USA. She is the author of Moral Development: Theory and Applications. Past research explored children’s moral perceptions of the Harry Potter books and films and university faculty’s moral reasoning about affirmative action. She is currently working on a study of the moral exemplars of emerging adults.

Manuel Wörsdörfer is a Postdoctoral Researcher of the Cluster of Excellence ‘The Formation of Normative Orders’ at Goethe University Frankfurt. In his habilitation/professorial thesis, he analyses the Equator Principles, a voluntary and soft law CSR-initiative in the project finance sector, from a business and human rights perspective. Manuel’s current research interests in business ethics include sustainable finance, political CSR and corporate citizenship, and business and human rights. Most of his research has been presented at prestigious international conferences and has been published in peer-reviewed journals. Manuel has also worked as a visiting researcher at Beijing University, Carnegie Mellon University, University of Toronto and York University.