Kostas Amiridis is a lecturer in the Department of Organisation, Work & Technology at Lancaster University Management School, UK. His research focuses on the historical development of managerialism and the philosophical aspects of business and capitalist ethics.
Richard Badham is a professor at the Macquarie Graduate School of Management. His research contributes to the field of organizational behavior, with a particular focus on leadership and the organizational politics of innovation and change. He is the co-author of Power, Politics and Organizational Change, (Sage, 2008, with David Buchanan) and of a Harvard Business Review article on metaphors of leadership transformation (2011, with Peter Fuda). He is currently working on the book Ironies of Organizational Change (Edward Elgar, 2018) which will explore the role of organizational theatre, parody, and irony in leadership, change, and management education.
Joanne B. Ciulla is professor of leadership ethics and director of the Institute for Ethical Leadership at Rutgers Business School. Prior to joining Rutgers, she was a founding faculty member of the Jepson School of Leadership Studies at the University of Richmond. She has published extensively on leadership ethics and her edited and co-edited collections have contributed to the development of the field of leadership ethics. A philosopher by training, her own work explores the philosophically distinctive aspects of leadership. She also publishes on business ethics, with a special interest in questions related to meaningful work and the ethics of work. Ciulla serves on the editorial boards of Business Ethics Quarterly, The Leadership Quarterly, Leadership, and Leadership and the Humanities. She is series editor of the “New Horizons in Leadership Studies Series,” which is one of the largest series of humanities based books on leadership studies.
Rita A. Gardiner is an assistant professor in critical policy, equity, and leadership studies in the Faculty of Education at The University of Western Ontario, London, ON, Canada. Her research interests include exploring leadership and organizational change through the lens of feminist theory, Arendtian inquiry, and existential phenomenology. Recent publications include “Lasting Impressions: Hannah Arendt’s Educational Legacy, in the Journal of Educational Administration & History (2016) and Gender, Authenticity and Leadership: Thinking with Arendt (Palgrave MacMillan, 2015). She has recently embarked on a new project that seeks to examine the work of Michel Foucault and Hannah Arendt as it relates to leadership ethics.
Andrew Gustafson is associate professor of business ethics and society in the management and marketing department in the Heider College of Business at Creighton University in Omaha, Nebraska, where he is director of the Business, Faith, and Common Good Institute. He holds graduate degrees in philosophy from Marquette University and Fordham University. He has published articles on utilitarianism, business ethics, advertising ethics, and business and the common good in journals such as Business Ethics Quarterly, Business and Society Review, Business Ethics: A European Review, the Journal of Religion and Business Ethics, International Philosophical Quarterly and the British Journal of the History of Philosophy.
Edwin Hartman has taught ancient philosophy, management, and business ethics at the University of Pennsylvania, Rutgers University, and New York University. He was a management consultant with Hay Associates. He is the author of many articles and four books, the latest of which is Virtue in Business: Conversations with Aristotle, published in 2013 by Cambridge University Press. He was educated at Haverford College, Oxford University, Princeton University, and the Wharton School. Retired and living in the mountains near Tucson, Arizona, he is the outgoing president of the Oracle Schools Foundation.
David Knights is professor at the Lancaster University Management School, UK. His research is in the field of leadership, power and identity, gender and diversity, and the body and ethics. His most recent publications include “The Missing Masses of Resistance: Employing Insights from Actor Network Theory to Enhance our Understanding of Resistance,” with D. McCabe (British Journal of Management, 2016); and “Pushing the Boundaries of Amnesia and Myopia: A Critical Review of the Literature on Identity in Management and Organization Studies,” with C. Clark (International Journal of Management Reviews, 2017).
Chris Mabey is professor in leadership at Middlesex University Business School, UK and a chartered psychologist with the British Psychology Society. Mabey has held a career-long interest in leadership development, first as a student counsellor for a Christian charity, then as an occupational psychologist with British Telecom and in Leadership Training with Rank Xerox (UK) plc. He has worked in a variety of sectors as a management consultant, with a focus on executive coaching, team-based development, and leadership development of top teams. Recent books include Developing Leadership: Questions Business Schools Don’t Ask, edited with W. Mayrhofer (SAGE, 2015); and Management and Leadership Development, with T. Finch-Lees (SAGE, 2008). Mabey recently led an ESRC-funded seminar series on “Ethical Leadership: Philosophical and Spiritual Approaches.”
Iain Munro is engaged in research in the fields of organization theory, information warfare, business ethics, and whistleblowing. He has written a research monograph, Information Warfare in Business: Strategies of Control and Resistance in the Network Society.
Carl Rhodes is professor of Organization Studies at the University of Technology Sydney. Working in the disciplines organization studies and business ethics, his current research investigates the ethical and political environment in which contemporary organizations operate and its effects on their leadership and behaviour. His most recent books are The Companion to Ethics and Politics in Organizations (Routledge, 2015, with Alison Pullen), and Organizations and Popular Culture (Routledge, 2012, with Simon Lilley). His work appears in journals such as Human Relations, The Journal of Business Ethics, Leadership Quarterly, Organization, and Organization Studies. As well as his academic work, he regularly writes articles on business and society for the Australian and international press.
Matthew Sinnicks is lecturer in business ethics at Northumbria University. He has previously worked at the University of Birmingham, The Open University, and the University of Hertfordshire. His work has appeared in Business Ethics Quarterly and the Journal of Business Ethics. His research interests include flourishing and alienation in the workplace, the ethics of market economies, and virtue ethics as it applies to business.
Torkild Thanem is professor of management and organization studies at Stockholm Business School, Sweden, and an associate editor of Gender, Work & Organization. Thanem’s research focuses on ethics and body politics in organizational life, and he is currently conducting an ethnographic study of corporate performance culture.
Leah Tomkins is senior lecturer in organisation and leadership studies at the Open University, UK. Her research focuses on the lived experience of work and working relationships, drawing mainly on existentialist and phenomenological philosophies to interpret the meaning, ethics, and felt sense of organisational life. Originally a scholar of German language and literature, she especially enjoys working with philosophers writing in the German language, principally Heidegger and Gadamer. Prior to entering academia, Tomkins held senior leadership positions in industry, specialising in large-scale transformational change, including for the UK’s civil service. Much of her focus today is on exploring those aspects of these change leadership experiences which were not covered in the textbooks, methodologies, coaching sessions, and leadership development programmes that were available to her at the time. Her work has appeared in a range of leading journals, including Organization Studies, Organization, Academy of Management Learning and Education, Management Learning, The Humanistic Psychologist, and Greece and Rome.
Patricia Werhane is the Wicklander Chair of Business Ethics Emerita at DePaul University and Ruffin Professor Emerita at the Darden School of Business, University of Virginia. Previously she was the Wirtenberger Professor of Business Ethics at Loyola University Chicago. She has been a Rockefellor Fellow at Dartmouth College, and a visiting fellow at Cambridge University. In 2014 she was the Visiting Fulbright Specialist at All Hallows College in Dublin and a TEDx speaker there. In 2008 she was listed as one of the 100 most influential people in business ethics by Ethisphere Magazine. Werhane is the author of over 100 articles and book chapters, and the author or editor of thirty books, including Adam Smith and his Legacy for Modern Capitalism, Moral Imagination and Management Decision Making, Alleviating Poverty Through Profitable Partnerships (with Kelley, Hartman, and Moberg) and Obstacles to Ethical Decision-Making (with Hartman, Archer, Englehardt, and Pritchard.) Werhane is a founding member and past president of the Society for Business Ethics, past president of the American Society for Value Inquiry, and past president of the International Society for Business, Economics, and Ethics. She is the founding editor of Business Ethics Quarterly. She is co-producer of an Emmy-award winning television documentary series, Big Questions, aired on Chicago Public Television’s WTTW Prime.
