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4 - Exemplarism, Virtue, and Ethical Leadership in International Organizations

from Part I - Concepts

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  06 May 2021

By
Amalia Amaya
Edited by
Guilherme Vasconcelos Vilaça  and
Maria Varaki
Guilherme Vasconcelos Vilaça
Affiliation:
Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de México (ITAM)
Maria Varaki
Affiliation:
King's College London
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Summary

This chapter develops an exemplarist virtue approach to ethical leadership in international organizations. An exemplarist virtue theory of ethical leadership endorses a virtue perspective on ethical leadership that assigns a prominent role to exempla. This approach involves two central commitments about the structure of a theory of ethical leadership: first, a commitment to the view that virtues, rather than rules or consequences, are the primary concepts in a theory of ethical leadership, and second, a commitment to the claim that exempla of ethical leadership occupy a central stage within the theory. The development of an exemplarist virtue approach to ethical leadership thus draws on two main, connected, traditions of moral theory: virtue ethics and exemplarism.

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Ethical Leadership in International Organizations
Concepts, Narratives, Judgment, and Assessment
 , pp. 101 - 128
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2021

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