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ETHICS IN THE GLOBAL SOUTH

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RESEARCH IN ETHICAL ISSUES IN ORGANIZATIONS

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RESEARCH IN ETHICAL ISUES IN ORGANIZATIONS VOLUME 18

ETHICS IN THE GLOBAL SOUTH

EDITED BY

Michael Schwartz

School of Economics, Finance & Marketing, Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology, Melbourne, Australia

Howard Harris

School of Management, University of South Australia, Adelaide, Australia

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DEBRA R. COMER

Hofstra University, New York, USA

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Contents

List of Contributors

Editorial Board

• Joseph L. Badaracco, Jr.

  Harvard University, USA

• Ida Berger

  Harvard Business School, USA

• Norman Bowie

  University of Minnesota, USA

• Hugh Breakey

  Griffith University, Australia

• M. Neil Browne

  Bowling Green State University, USA

• Debra R. Comer

  Hofstra University New York, USA

• Wesley Cragg

  York University, Canada

• Ron Duska

  The American College, USA

• Georges Enderle

  University of Notre Dame, USA

• Edwin Epstein

  University of California at Berkeley, USA

• Amitai Etzioni

  George Washington University, USA

• William Frederick

  University of Pittsburg, USA

• Al Gini

  Loyola University Chicago, USA

• Kenneth E. Goodpaster

  University of St. Thomas, USA

• Ellen McCorkle Harshman

  St. Louis University, USA

• Laura Pincus Hartman

  Boston University, USA

• Daryl Koehn

  DePaul University, USA

• Kimball P. Marshall

  Alcom State University, USA

• E. Sharon Mason

  Brock University, Canada

• Douglas McCabe

  Georgetown University, USA

• Alex Michalos

  University of Northern British

  Columbia, Canada

• Barry Mitnick

  University of Pittsburg, USA

• Moses Pava

  Yeshiva University, USA

• Mark S. Schwartz

  York University, Canada

• Meir Tamari

  Jerusalem Institute of Technology, Israel

• Steven Wartick

  University of Northern Iowa, USA

About the Authors

Lance Brennan, after graduating with a BEd and MA from the University of Western Australia, completed a doctorate in history from the University of Sussex. He taught courses in Indian history and in the multidisciplinary topic Famine at the Flinders University of South Australia from 1973 until his retirement as an associate professor in 1999. He has published on the socio-economic and political history of Uttar Pradesh, on famine and its relief, on the health of indentured workers and on Indian anthropometric history. With his colleagues John McDonald and Ralph Shlomowitz, he published Well Being in India: Studies in Anthropometric History, New Delhi, Readworthy, 2013.

Howard Harris graduated in chemical engineering and worked in industry and commerce before returning to university and completing a PhD on the role of courage in management decision making. He joined the School of Management at the University of South Australia. He taught ethics to business students in Adelaide, Singapore, Hong Kong and Kuala Lumpur. Since retiring, he has maintained an interest in the relevance of classical virtues in contemporary management. He is a former President of the Australian Association for Professional and Applied Ethics. His interest in history was bolstered during recent study for a master’s degree in theology.

Les Heathcote was one of Australia’s foremost geographers. Following a first degree at University College London (UCL) a masters at Nebraska and a doctorate from the Australian National University, Les taught at UCL for a couple of years, then migrated again in 1967 to teach at Flinders University, South Australia. He retired in 1997 but remained an adjunct associate professor until his death in 2010. As well as a full commitment to his teaching, and his service on many boards and advisory councils, Les wrote and edited seventeen books and numerous articles. Most, including the first, The Arid Lands: Their Use and Abuse, Harlow, Longmans, 1983 and the last, Drought and the Human Story: Braving the Bull of Heaven, London and New York, Routledge, 2012, address the relationship of humans and the lands they inhabit. The Institute of Australian Geographers conferred the Griffith Taylor Medal on Les in 1997 – a rare honour.

Issam Kouatli is an associate professor of information technology. He holds a PhD in engineering and an MSc in manufacturing technology from the University of Birmingham, UK. His main research interests are in intelligent systems, specifically in genetic fuzzy systems and its use in decision-making mechanisms and applications. Cloud computing with the related management of ethical behavior and security is the second main interest of research. He has worked as an IT consultant providing IT services via a British-based limited company from 1995 till 2001.

Anton Lucas graduated in agricultural economics from the University of New England before completing a masters in Asian Studies at Hawaii, followed by a PhD in Indonesian history at the Australian National University. In 1981, he joined the discipline of Asian Studies at the Flinders University of South Australia where he taught Indonesian language alongside topics on the environment and development in Asia, Indonesian culture and society, and religion and social change. Anton is now an adjunct associate professor in history and international studies. He has published extensively on the Indonesian nationalist movement and on a range of social and political issues at the local level. His books include One Soul One Struggle, Sydney, Allen and Unwin, 1991, and (with Carol Warren) Land for the People, the State and Agrarian Conflict in Indonesia, Ohio, Research in International Studies Series, 2013.

Patrick E. O’Brien earned his bachelors of business administration in accounting, as well as his masters in science in accounting from Hofstra University. Upon graduation from Hofstra, Patrick worked at Deloitte & Touche in New York City in the audit practice, serving primarily public and private clients in the media and entertainment industries. Patrick also worked in the private sector as a financial analyst within the Corporate Controller’s Group at Sotheby’s. He currently works as the accounting department administrator and serves as an adjunct professor of accounting within the Frank G. Zarb School of Business at Hofstra University.

Roderick O’Brien is an Australian lawyer, with experience of teaching law in Hong Kong and in mainland China. His research interests include the ethics of China’s lawyers.

Timothy F. O’Shannassy is a senior lecturer in the Graduate School of Business and Law (GSBL) at RMIT University, Melbourne, Australia. Tim earned his PhD from Monash University in 2005. Tim currently teaches strategic management and entrepreneurship in the MBA programs at RMIT. He is co-author of Strategic Management: The Challenge of Creating Value (Routledge Publishing). He served as RMIT MBA Programs Director in 2015 and 2016 and is currently serving on the RMIT Academic Board. He has extensive experience in managing and teaching in executive education programs. Tim is a fellow of the Australian Institute of Management.

Chris Provis is a member of the Centre for Business Ethics and Responsible Leadership based in the School of Management at the University of South Australia. His recent work has been on moral judgment in business ethics and on Confucianism and business ethics.

Michael Schwartz is an associate professor of business ethics in the School of Economics, Finance & Marketing at the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology. He is a past president of the Australian Association for Professional and Applied Ethics. He is a member of the editorial boards of the Journal of Applied Ethics and the Journal of International Business & Law; and a joint editor of Research in Ethical Issues in Organizations. His research in the field of business ethics has been published in the Electronic Journal of Business Ethics & Organization Studies, the Australian Journal of Professional & Applied Ethics, the Australian Journal of Social Issues, Ethics & Education, Business Ethics Quarterly, Business Ethics: A European Review, the Journal of Business Ethics and Research in Ethical Issues in Organizations.

Andani Thakhathi is a PhD candidate in ethics and responsible leadership in business at the Wittenberg Center for Global Ethics (WCGE) and the Business Ethics and Management Accounting (BEMA) chair at the Martin Luther University (MLU) of Halle-Wittenberg in Germany. Prior to joining the WCGE and BEMA, he was a researcher at the University of South Africa’s College of Economic and Management Sciences (CEMS) where he explored the practice of strategic corporate sustainability. Andani’s research focuses on sustainability and ethics in the global business context. He is also interested in advancing Africa’s renewal and renaissance through critical and positive scholarship.