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ETHICS IN MANAGEMENT

RESEARCH IN ETHICAL ISSUES IN ORGANIZATIONS

Series Editors: Jacqueline Boaks, Michael Schwartz, Howard Harris

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RESEARCH IN ETHICAL ISSUES IN ORGANIZATIONS VOLUME 28

ETHICS IN MANAGEMENT: BUSINESS AND THE PROFESSIONS

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JACQUELINE BOAKS

Curtin University, Australia

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Jacqueline Boaks teaches Ethics and Leadership to undergraduate, MBA, and Executive Educations students at Curtin University. She has a background in management, consultancy, and academia and previously taught Ethics and Leadership at the University of Western Australia, Notre Dame University, and Curtin University. She is Vice President of the Executive Committee of the Australian Association of Professional and Applied Ethics, the Founder of the WA Ethics Outside Philosophy group, and the Co-editor of Leadership and Ethics (Bloomsbury). She has published widely on democracy, ethics, and leadership.

She is Editor of the journal Ethical Issues in Organisations (Emerald) and serves on the editorial board of the journal Philosophy of Management (Springer).

Her current research areas include leadership, applied ethics, business ethics, and the question of dirty hands in leadership.

Larelle Bossi is a knowledge broker who works in a multi- and transdisciplinary intersection inclusive of a diverse range of stakeholders and data sets. She has been developing her brand of biocultural ethics which works well alongside eco-feminist theories and First Nations kinship worldviews. She has written on blue ecofeminism, fishing, the colonization and decolonization of oceans, social and cultural licenses to operate, place attachment, and ocean ethics. She is a Research Fellow at the Institute of Ethics, Law and Governance at Griffith University, working on the Blue Economy Cooperative Research Centre project. She has also been teaching, presenting, and consulting in ethical leadership, decision making, and cultural transformation across sectors.

Lonnie Bossi has had over 25 years of Senior Executive experience in the Tourism, Hospitality, and Entertainment sectors across the USA, Australia, and Asia. His experience extends to participating at conferences globally as both Presenter and Panellist, as well as participating in various Advisory Panels at both industry and governmental levels. His topics of presentation include marketing, communication, stakeholder engagement, and transformational leadership. His leadership experience includes multiple board and CEO roles, with the former in both corporate and public bodies. He has led material strategic and cultural change at an organizational level in both the USA and Australia, and was a valued Industry Advisor to Government during the COVID-19 pandemic. His success with cultural transformation through courageous leadership, led his operation to increase performance despite the removal of high value business initiatives, as an exemplar case study of applying the ethics of care and responsibility, in contradiction to industry norms, to materially outperform the market.

Hugh Breakey is Deputy Director and a Senior Research Fellow in Moral Philosophy at Griffith University’s Institute for Ethics, Governance and Law, Law Futures Centre, Brisbane, Australia. His work spans the philosophical sub-disciplines of political theory, normative ethics, applied philosophy, and legal theory. He has extensive experience in the application of ethical, legal, and political philosophy to a wide array of challenging practical fields, including institutional governance, integrity systems and corruption, climate change, sustainable tourism, peacekeeping, safety industries, resource and common property, professional ethics, and international law.

Jessica Flanigan is the Richard L. Morrill Chair in Ethics and Democratic Values at the University of Richmond, where she teaches Leadership Ethics, Ethical Decision Making in Healthcare, and Critical Thinking. Her research addresses the ethics of public policy, medicine, and business. In Pharmaceutical Freedom (Oxford University Press, 2017), she defends the rights of self-medication. In Debating Sex Work (Oxford University Press, 2019), she defends the decriminalization of sex work. She has also published in journals such as Philosophical Studies, The Journal of Business Ethics, Leadership, The Journal of Moral Philosophy, and the Journal of Political Philosophy. She is currently writing a book about the ethics of pregnancy and a book about language and ethics. She is a proponent of effective altruism.

Shannon Brandt Ford is Senior Lecturer in International Relations at Curtin University, where he is the Course Coordinator for the International Relations Major (B.A.) and the Master of International Relations and National Security programmes. He is also a Board Member for the International Society of Military Ethics and Faculty Affiliate with the Programme on Cybersecurity and Internet Governance at Indiana University. His research has been published in the Journal of Military Ethics, Journal of Cyber Policy, Quartz, The Conversation, and The Interpreter. His selected publications include: ‘Ethical Exceptionalism and the Just War Tradition: Walzer’s Instrumentalist Approach and an Institutionalist Response to McMahan’s “Nazi Military” Problem’ in the Journal of Military Ethics, ‘Rights-based Justifications for Self-defense: Defending a Modified Unjust Threat Account’ in the International Journal of Applied Philosophy, and ‘Jus Ad Vim and the Just Use of Lethal Force Short-of-War’ in the Routledge Handbook of Ethics and War.

Michelle Greenwood is Professor at Monash University, Australia. Her research is in critical business ethics, which she has developed conceptually and qualitatively in the areas of ethics and HRM/employment, critical approaches to stakeholder theory and CSR, organizational visuals, and technological mediations. She has published 70+ articles, book chapters, and books. She has an ongoing interest in the politics and ethics of academic publishing. She currently serves as Co-editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Business Ethics.

Margaret Ying Wei Lee is an Organizational Sociologist at Monash University, Australia. Her academic research centres on disturbing experiences of health and illness with a particular interest in narrative medicine. She has dedicated the last six years to understanding burnout, its fallout, and the possibilities for recovery. She is writing a narrative non-fiction book based on her doctoral research which explored the lived experience of burnout recovery in organizational settings. Prior to academia, she worked as a healthcare journalist at a national newspaper and as a health economist working with Federal Governments to secure funding for new medicines.

Charles Sampford topped politics, philosophy, and law at Melbourne, combining them in his Oxford DPhil (1986). As Griffith’s Foundation Dean of Law (1991), he established the curriculum and research culture that, within 21 years, earned the Law School a QS global ranking of 43rd in the world. He was Foundation Director of the Key Centre for Ethics, Law, Justice and Governance in 1999 and Foundation Director of the Institute for Ethics, Governance and Law (a joint initiative of the United Nations University, Griffith, QUT, and ANU) since 2004. He has written over 150 articles and chapters and 32 books and edited collections. In 2008, for his work on ethics and integrity systems, he was recognized by the ARC as one of the 20 researchers across all disciplines who had had the greatest impact. He was Convenor of the ARC Governance Research Network (2004–2010).

Ezechiel Thibaud is a Lecturer at the Education University of Hong Kong, where she teaches Philosophy and Education Theory for the Department of International Education. She holds a master’s degree in Philosophy from the University of Bordeaux, and a Ph.D. in Philosophy from Lingnan University in Hong Kong. She is primarily interested in ethics, philosophy of education, and philosophy of technology. Her current interests include business and work ethics, AI in education and tech-solutionism, and the philosophy of internet trends.

Graham Wood is a Philosopher in the School of Humanities at the University of Tasmania located in Launceston. He is a member of the EthicsLAB (UTAS) and the Centre for Marine Socioecology (UTAS/CSIRO). His areas of research include sustainability, environmental philosophy, moral psychology, and cognitive science of religion. His research concerns the relationship between human values and a scientific understanding of the human condition. He examines this relationship within three realms: environmental philosophy, moral psychology, and cognitive science of religion. In his research, environmental, moral, and religious values are examined using insights from philosophy of mind, cognitive science, and evolutionary psychology.