A Survey on Virtue in Business and Management (1980-2011)

Abstract

Virtue ethics is generally recognized as one of the three major schools of ethics, but is often waylaid by utilitarianism and deontology in business and management literature. Focusing on publications in the Thomson-Reuters Journal of Citation Report between 1980 and 2011, we use EBSCO and ABI databases to look for articles containing the keywords "virtue ethics", "virtue theory" or "virtuousness" in the abstract together with "business" or "management" in the text. We refined our search to draw lists of the most prolific authors, the most cited authors, the most cited articles and the journals with the most virtue ethics publications. This information allows us to chart how virtue ethics articles have evolved through the decades and establish clusters of authors as well as clusters of themes. These findings also provide a foundation for future study of the meanings of virtue ethics and the achievement and potential of different persuasions within virtue ethics research. We believe this will make a significant contribution to business ethics scholarship and management education by supplying both with a solid philosophical and anthropological mooring. Ignacio AbstractVirtue ethics is generally recognized as one of the three major schools of ethics, but is often waylaid by utilitarianism and deontology in business and management literature. Focusing on publications in the Thomson-Reuters Journal of Citation Report between1980 and 2011, we use EBSCO and ABI databases to look for articles containing the keywords "virtue ethics", "virtue theory" or "virtuousness" in the abstract together with "business" or "management" in the text. We refined our search to draw lists of the most prolific authors, the most cited authors, the most cited articles and the journals with the most virtue ethics publications. This information allows us to chart how virtue ethics articles have evolved through the decades and establish clusters of authors as well as clusters of themes. These findings also provide a foundation for future study of the meanings of virtue ethics and the achievement and potential of different persuasions within virtue ethics research. We believe this will make a significant contribution to business ethics scholarship and management education by supplying both with a solid philosophical and anthropological mooring.2

Using normative ethics for building a good evaluation of research practices: towards the assessment of researcher’s virtues

“…-Ethical guidelines (UNEG 2008a, b;ALLEA 2017;NASEM 2017) -Ethical principles in research (Iphofen, 2020) and evaluaƟon (Furner, 2014;Jayawickrama and Strecker, 2015) Empirical studies on researchers and assessment of virtues (Åkerlind, 2008(Åkerlind, , Bazeley, 2010Walumbwa, 2008, Ferrero andSison, 2012;Snow, 2012;Seligman, 2011, White, 2014 Personal values (Sagiv et al 2017) Other recent virtue ethics studies (Hursthouse 1999;Nussbaum 2006;Swanton, 2003Swanton, , 2007Snow 2010;Annas, 2011) Other related literature…”

“…The achievement of our aim will be possible by an integrated method, which uses philosophical conceptual analysis (MacIntyre 1985;Hursthouse 1999;Nussbaum 2006;Swanton, 2003Swanton, , 2007Snow 2010), but integrates it with the empirical method of the social sciences (Resnik, 1998;Walumbwa, 2008;Ferrero and Sison, 2012;Bazeley 2010;Snow 2012). The method of analysis applied in this work consists in the application of argumentative logic, that is, conceptual and philosophical argumentation and clarification.…”

“…The managerial literature on virtue ethics in business has received a recent development. See Ferrero and Sison (2012) for a review. In particular, Walumbwa et al (2008) put forward a quantification of leadership comprising self-awareness, relational transparency internalized moral perspective and balanced processing.…”