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Guest Editors’ Introduction: Philosophical Approaches to Leadership Ethics II: Perspectives on the Self and Responsibility to Others

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 July 2018

Joanne B. Ciulla ,
David Knights ,
Chris Mabey  and
Leah Tomkins
Joanne B. Ciulla
Affiliation:
Rutgers University
David Knights
Affiliation:
Lancaster University
Chris Mabey
Affiliation:
Middlesex University
Leah Tomkins
Affiliation:
The Open University
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Abstract:

This article introduces the second of two special issues on philosophical approaches to leadership ethics. In this issue, the articles draw on the works of Plato, Niccolò Machiavelli, Michel Foucault, and Jürgen Habermas to explore questions in leadership ethics concerning leaders’ self-knowledge and self-constitution and their responsibilities to their followers. The articles in this issue demonstrate the potential of philosophy to deepen our understanding of leadership and ethics.

Keywords

leadership ethicsethical leadershipleadership and philosophyself-knowledgePlatoMachiavelliFoucaultHabermas
Type
Special Section
Information
Business Ethics Quarterly , Volume 28 , Issue 3 , July 2018 , pp. 245 - 250
Copyright
Copyright © Society for Business Ethics 2018 

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NOTES

1. Joanne B. Ciulla, David Knights, Chris Mabey, and Leah Tomkins, “Guest Editors’ Introduction: Philosophical Contributions to Leadership Ethics,” Business Ethics Quarterly 28, no. 1 (January 2018): 1–14.

2. Joanne B. Ciulla, “Leadership Ethics: Mapping the Territory,” Business Ethics Quarterly 5, no. 1 (January 1995): 5–24.

3. Kent D. Miller, “Organizational Research as Practical Theology,” Organizational Research Methods 18, no. 2 (April 2015): 276–299.

4. Plato, Phaedrus, trans. R. Hackforth, in The Collected Dialogues of Plato, Including the Letters, ed. Edith Hamilton & Huntington Cairns (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1971), 478.

5. Michel Foucault, Ethics: Essential Works of Foucault 1954–1984, ed. Paul Rabinow, vol. 1 (Harmondsworth, UK: Penguin, 1997).

6. Confucius, “Selections from the Analects,” in A Source Book in Chinese Philosophy, trans. and ed. Wing-Tsit Chan (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1963), 38.

7. Niccolò Machiavelli, The Prince, trans. Quenton Skinner and Russell Price (Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 1988).

8. Jürgen Habermas, The Theory of Communicative Action, trans. T. McCarth, (Boston: Beacon Press, 1987).

9. David C. Bauman, “Plato on Virtuous Leadership: An Ancient Model for Modern Business,” Business Ethics Quarterly 28, no. 3 (July 2018): 251–274.

10. Bauman, 262.

11. Christopher E. Cosans and Christopher S. Reina, “The Leadership Ethics of Machiavelli’s Prince,” Business Ethics Quarterly 28, no. 3 (July 2018): 275–300.

12. Cosans and Reina, 285.

13. Donna Ladkin, “Self Constitution as the Foundation for Leading Ethically: A Foucauldian Possibility,” Business Ethics Quarterly 28, no. 3 (July 2018): 301–323.

14. Ladkin, 312–313.

15. Ladkin, 319.

16. Moritz Patzer, Christian Voegtlin, and Andreas Georg Scherer, “The Normative Justification of Integrative Stakeholder Engagement: A Habermasian View on Responsible Leadership,” Business Ethics Quarterly 28, no. 3 (July 2018): 325–354.

17. Patzer, Voegtlin, and Scherer, 341.

18. Patzer, Voegtlin, and Scherer, 338; emphasis theirs.

19. Business Ethics Quarterly, vol. 28, no. 1 (January 2018).

20. For a three-volume reference work with a number of primary sources in this area, see Joanne B. Ciulla, Mary Uhl-Bien, and Patricia H. Werhane, eds., Leadership Ethics (Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications, 2013).