The Moral Imagination of Patricia Werhane: A Festschrift

This book celebrates the work of Patricia Werhane, an iconic figure in business ethics. This festschrift is a collection of articles that build on Werhane's contributions to business ethics in such areas as Employee Rights, the Legacy of Adam Smith, Moral Imagination, Women in Business, the development of the field of business ethics, and her contributions to such fields as Health Care, Education, Teaching, and Philosophy. All papers are new contributions to the management literature written by well-known business ethicists, such as Norman Bowie, Richard De George, Ronald Duska, Edwin Hartman, Michael Hoffman, Mollie Painter-Morland, Mark Schwartz, Andrew Wicks, and others. The volume is comprised of articles that reflect on Werhane's work as well as build on it as a way to advance further research. At the end of the festschrift, Pat Werhane provides responses to each chapter. The first chapter of the book also includes the overview of Patricia Werhane's work and her academic career. The book is written to appeal to management scholars and graduate students interested in the areas of Business Ethics, Modern Capitalism, and Human Rights.

Patricia Werhane is one of the most distinguished figures in the field of business ethics. She was a founder of the field, she is one of its leading scholars, and she has had a profound impact on the world of business practice. Among her many accomplishments, Pat is known for her original work on moral imagination, she is an acclaimed authority on employee rights in the workplace, and she is one of the leading scholars on Adam Smith. Having been active in Academia for over 50 years, Werhane is a prolific author of over a hundred articles and book chapters, and the author or editor of twenty-seven books, including Adam Smith and his Legacy for Modern Capitalism, Moral Imagination and Management Decision-Making , and co-authored books Organization Ethics in Health Care, Alleviating Poverty Through Profitable Partnerships, Obstacles to Ethical Decision-Making , Corporate Responsibility: The American Experience , and Research Approaches to Business Ethics and Corporate Responsibility.

Celebrates the work of Patricia Werhane, an iconic figure in business ethics Includes new contributions related to Werhane's work, to the management literature in the areas of Moral Imagination, Employee Rights, and Modern Capitalism Includes Werhane's responses to the authors who reflected and/or criticized her work, and used her findings to advance management literature

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R. Edward Freeman is University Professor, Elis and Signe Olsson Professor, Academic Director of the Institute for Business in Society, and Senior Fellow of the Olsson Center for Applied Ethics at the University of Virginia Darden School of Business. He is best known for his award winning book, Strategic Management: A Stakeholder Approach (Pitman, 1984; and reprinted by Cambridge University Press in 2010). His latest book is Bridging the Values Gap with Ellen Auster published by Barrett Koehler in July 2015. He has received honorary doctorates (Doctor Honoris Causa) from Radboud University Nijmegen, Universidad Pontificia Comillas in Spain, the Hanken School of Economics in Finland and Sherbrooke University in Canada for his work on stakeholder theory and business ethics. Freeman is Co-Editor-in-chief of the Journal of Business Ethics , one of the leading journals in business ethics. He is the author of more than 200 publications in a wide variety of academic and practitioner outlets. At its 2010 annual meeting, the Society for Business Ethics presented Freeman with its Outstanding Contributions to Scholarship Award for his stakeholder theory work, to which there has currently been more than 50,000 citations. He is a lifelong student of philosophy, martial arts and the blues. Freeman is a founding member of Red Goat Records (redgoatrecords.com) bringing the joy of original soul and rhythm and blues music into the 21st Century.

Sergiy Dmytriyev is pursuing a doctorate in Business Ethics at the University of Virginia Darden School of Business. His research interests include supererogation in organizations, stakeholder engagement, stakeholder responsibility, mindsets toward work, company success, disagreements, and meaning in life. Prior to working at Darden, he worked for Procter & Gamble, Bain & Company, and Monsanto in Europe. As a management consultant at Bain, he conducted multiple projects on strategy development, company transformation, and organization redesign in the financial services, airline, oil and gas, FMCG, and real estate industries.

Andrew C. Wicks is the Ruffin Professor of Business Administration at the University of Virginia Darden School of Business. He is director of the Olsson Center for Applied Ethics, director of the doctoral program and academic advisor for the Institute for Business in Society. Wicks also serves as an adjunct professor in the Religious Studies department and the Frank Batten School of Leadership and Public Policy at UVA. Wicks is co-author of four books. He has published over 40 articles and his work has appeared in a wide variety of journals in business ethics, management and the humanities. His research interests include stakeholder responsibility, stakeholder theory, trust, health care ethics, total quality management, and ethics and entrepreneurship. He works with MBA students, executives and corporations in the United States and abroad.

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Chapter 1: An Essay to the Festschrift in Honor of Patricia Werhane; R. Edward Freeman, Sergiy Dmytriyev, Andrew C. Wicks, and James R. Freeland.- Chapter 2: Werhane's Role in the Development of The Discipline of Business Ethics: A Critical Appreciation; Richard T. De George.- Chapter 3: Employee Rights, Moral Imagination, and the Struggle with Universal Values: A Quick Overview of Werhane's Contributions to Ethics in Employment; Norman E. Bowie.- Chapter 4: Patricia Werhane and Adam Smith, With Side Comments on Aesthetics and Wittgenstein; Ronald F. Duska.- Chapter 5: Aristotle and Werhane on Moral Imagination; Edwin M. Hartman.- Chapter 6: Building on Werhane's Foundation: Toward a Theory of the Morally Imaginative Organization; Timothy J. Hargrave.- Chapter 7: Ethical Decision Making Surveyed Through the Lens of Moral Imagination; Mark S. Schwartz and W. Michael Hoffman.- Chapter 8: Trading Zones and Moral Imagination as Ways of Preventing Normalized Deviance; Michael E. Gorman.- Chapter 9: Weaving the Embodied Fabric of Moral Imagination: Implications for Women in Business; Mollie Painter-Morland.- Chapter 10: Building Bridges: Patricia Werhane, Business Ethics and Health Care; Sergiy Dmytriyev and Andrew C. Wicks.- Chapter 11: Moral Imagination and the Business of Education; Carla J. Manno.- Chapter 12: Making Ethics Practical in the Undergraduate Classroom; Howard Harris.- Chapter 13: Closing Remarks from Patricia Werhane: An Informal Appreciation; David Bevan.- Chapter 14: Patricia Werhane's Response to the Works on Her Contributions to Business Ethics and Beyond; Patricia H. Werhane.