Caleb Bernacchio is a PhD candidate in business ethics at IESE Business School. His research interests focus on the relationship between neo-Aristotelian practical philosophy and organization studies. His research has been published in Business Ethics Quarterly, Business Ethics: A European Review, and Philosophy of Management.
Norman E. Bowie is a professor emeritus at the University of Minnesota. He is past president of the Society for Business Ethics and former executive director of the American Philosophical Association. His primary research interest in business ethics is the application of Kant’s moral philosophy to ethical issues in business. Bowie’s original 1999 book Business Ethics: A Kantian Perspective was followed by an expanded second edition, published by Cambridge University Press (2017) that included additional topics and consideration of the work of other Kantian business ethics scholars. A Festschrift, Kantian Business Ethics, was devoted to his work. In 2009, the Society for Business Ethics honored him with an award for scholarly achievement. His coedited text (with Denis Arnold and Tom Beauchamp) Ethical Theory and Business will be in its tenth edition when published by Cambridge University Press in 2020.
Jill A. Brown is a professor of management and the Harold S. Geneen Research Professor of Corporate Governance at Bentley University in Waltham, Massachusetts. She received her PhD from the University of Georgia. Her research interests include corporate responsibility, strategic leadership, ethics, and corporate governance, with a particular emphasis on the latitude of action of executives in different governance structures.
Graham Bullock is an associate professor of political science and environmental studies at Davidson College, where he teaches courses in American politics, business and politics, and environmental politics. Bullock’s research centers on business, government, and civil society responses to environmental challenges. His 2017 book, Green Grades: Can Information Save the Earth? (MIT Press), uses the concept of the information value chain to analyze the salience, trustworthiness, credibility, usability, and effectiveness of product eco-labels and corporate sustainability ratings. He has been published in journals such as Organization & Environment, Business and Politics, Environmental Politics, Journal of Consumer Marketing, and Political Research Quarterly on topics including consumers and certification effectiveness, climate policy and public opinion, and organic food and value activation. Bullock earned his undergraduate degree from Princeton University, his MPP from the Harvard Kennedy School, and his PhD from the University of California, Berkeley.
Frank G.A. de Bakker is a professor of corporate social responsibility at IESEG School of Management in Lille and a member of Lille Economics Management (LEM-CNRS 9921). He coordinates ICOR and the IESEG Centre for Organizational Responsibility, and is a coeditor of Business & Society. In his research, he combines insights from institutional theory, social movement studies, and corporate political activity in order to examine interactions between activists and business firms on issues of corporate social responsibility. His work has been published in a range of journals including Academy of Management Review, Journal of Management Studies, and Organization Studies.
Gastón de los Reyes Jr. is an assistant professor of strategic management and public policy at the George Washington University School of Business and a visiting scholar at the George Washington University Law School. His research has focused on frameworks for corporate responsibility, including constructive critiques of Michael Porter’s “creating shared value” framework. He pursued his PhD in business ethics from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania, prior to which he practiced law, both as a corporate attorney and as a litigator. He earned his law degree and MA in philosophy from Boston University and his undergraduate degree in philosophy from Harvard University.
Robert C. Hughes is an assistant professor of legal studies and business ethics at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. He received his PhD in philosophy at the University of California, Los Angeles, and completed postdoctoral fellowships in the Department of Bioethics at the National Institutes of Health and in the Law and Philosophy Program at UCLA. His current areas of research include the moral obligation to obey the law in business contexts, ethical limits on law enforcement, and ethical constraints on consensual transactions. His work has appeared in Law and Philosophy, Jurisprudence, Philosophy Compass, Bioethics, and the Journal of Medical Ethics.
Blazej Kaucz is a PhD researcher in criminology and socio-legal studies at University College Cork (UCC), Ireland. His PhD research examines the historical development of criminal law in Poland between 1943 and 1989 and its impact on the Polish society. Kaucz’s research interests revolve around law and development, militarization, professionalization and professional education (including hidden curriculum, guilty knowledge, and the importance of textbooks), business activities, white collar crime, and organized crime. He has lectured on Sociology of Community and on Official Criminal Statistics, and has co-lectured on Introduction to Law and Social Control and on Law, Crime, and Societies as part of the BA in criminology degree at UCC.
Domènec Melé is the holder of the Chair of Business Ethics at IESE Business School, University of Navarra, Spain. He earned a doctorate in industrial engineering from the Polytechnic University of Catalonia, Spain, and another doctorate degree in theology from the University of Navarra. He has written sixty-five articles in referred journals and chapters in collective works, and fifteen entries in encyclopedias and handbooks. He is author or coeditor of twelve books on economic and business ethics, corporate social responsibility, Catholic social teaching, and philosophy of management. Melé’s latest book Business Ethics in Action (2nd ed.) is forthcoming. He chaired the biennial International Symposium on Ethics, Business and Society led by IESE from 1991 to 2014 (18 editions) and served as section editor of the Journal of Business Ethics for ten years and guest editor of five special issues of the same journal.
Alfredo Pastor was born in La Seu d’Urgell, Spain, in 1944. He graduated in economics from the University of Barcelona in 1968 and obtained a PhD in economics from MIT in 1973. He was tenured at the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona in 1976. In 1980, he was visiting at Boston University. Pastor was country economist at the World Bank (1981–83). He was director of planning and later director general at the Spanish National Institute of Industry (INI). From 1985 to 1990, he was CEO of Enher, a utility; from 1990 to 1993, a board member of the Bank of Spain; and from 1993 to 1995, Secretary of State for the Economy. Pastor joined the faculty at IESE Business School in Barcelona, where he was named emeritus in 2015. Between 2001 and 2004, he was vice president and dean of the China Europe International Business School of Shanghai.
Stefano Ponte is a professor of international political economy in the Department of Management, Society and Communication, and Director of the Centre for Business and Development Studies, at Copenhagen Business School. His research focuses on transnational economic and environmental governance, with a special interest in global value chains, sustainability standards and certifications, and the overlaps and tensions between private authority and public regulation. He is the author or editor of ten books, including Brand Aid: Shopping Well to Save the World (with Lisa Ann Richey; University of Minnesota Press, 2011) and Business, Power and Sustainability in a World of Global Value Chains (Zed Books, 2019).
Andreas Rasche is a professor of business in society at Copenhagen Business School (CBS) and a visiting professor at the Stockholm School of Economics. He is associate dean for the CBS full-time MBA program and also acts as codirector of the CBS World Class Research Environment “Governing Responsible Business.” Rasche’s research examines the intersection of global governance, corporate sustainability, and the political role of firms. His work has been published in top-tier international academic and practitioner journals. His most recent books include Building the Responsible Enterprise (with Sandra Waddock; Stanford University Press, 2012) and Corporate Social Responsibility: Strategy, Communication, Governance (with Mette Morsing and Jeremy Moon; Cambridge University Press, 2017).
Markus Scholz holds the Endowed Chair of Corporate Governance & Business Ethics at the University of Applied Sciences for Management & Communication in Vienna. In addition, he is a visiting scholar at the INSEAD Social Innovation Centre and ambassador to the Giving Voice To Values initiative. Previously, Scholz was a senior fellow at the Zicklin Center for Business Ethics Research at the Wharton Business School of the University of Pennsylvania and a research associate at the Centre for Philosophy of Natural and the Social Sciences at the London School of Economics. His current research interests lie in political CSR with a focus on collective action theory, as well as in sustainability management and corporate social responsibility. His research has been published in various philosophy and management journals, including California Management Review, Organization Studies, Philosophy of the Social Sciences, and the British Journal for Philosophy of Science.
N. Craig Smith is the INSEAD Chaired Professor of Ethics and Social Responsibility at INSEAD, France, and the academic director of the Ethics and Corporate Social Responsibility Research Initiative in the INSEAD Social Innovation Centre. He was previously on the faculties of the London Business School, Georgetown University, and the Harvard Business School. His research is at the intersection of business and society, encompassing business ethics, corporate social responsibility, and sustainability. As well as a broad interest in organizational or managerial good and bad conduct, at the core of much of his research is a focus on developing understanding of corporate accountability. His current research examines the purpose of the firm, social contract theory, corporate governance and sustainability, stakeholder theory and stakeholder value, marketing ethics, and strategic drivers of CSR/sustainability. He is the author, coauthor, or coeditor of eight books and forty journal articles, as well as various other publications. His latest books are The Moral Responsibility of Firms (with Eric Orts; Oxford University Press, 2017) and Managing Sustainable Business (with Gilbert Lenssen; Springer, 2018).
Vivek Soundararajan is an associate professor of international management at the School of Management, University of Bath, United Kingdom. He earned his PhD from the University of London (Royal Holloway). He conducts research on labor exploitation, labor governance, environmental governance, multi-stakeholder initiatives, oppression in organizations, and fringe stakeholder value creation.
Patricia H. Werhane is the Ruffin Professor emerita at the Darden School of Business, University of Virginia, and the Wicklander Professor emerita at DePaul University. Before joining the Darden faculty in 1993, Werhane served as the Wirtenberger Professor of Philosophy at Loyola University Chicago. She was a Rockefeller Fellow at Dartmouth College and a senior fellow at Cambridge University. She has authored or edited thirty books including Moral Imagination and Management Decision-Making, Adam Smith and his Legacy for Modern Capitalism, and Alleviating Poverty through Profitable Partnerships. She is the founder and former editor in chief of Business Ethics Quarterly. She is currently coproducer of an Emmy award-winning television series Big Questions [www.bqnow.com].
Andrew C. Wicks is the Ruffin Professor of Business Administration at the Darden School, University of Virginia. He received his PhD from the University of Virginia. He is director of the Olsson Center for Applied Ethics and academic director of the Institute for Business in Society. Wicks conducts research on issues such as trust, health care ethics, total quality management, and stakeholder theory as it relates to morality and spirituality. His recent research explores issues such as ethics in the supply chain, the ethical implications of accounting discretion, and the consequences of the “dark side” of stakeholder theory.
