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Journal of Business Ethics
Published in: Journal of Business Ethics 1/2018

30-11-2016 | Original Paper

The Evolution and Challenges of the Concept of Organizational Virtuousness in Positive Organizational Scholarship

Author: Marcel Meyer

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Abstract

This paper critically reviews and discusses the concept of organizational virtuousness as presented in positive organizational scholarship (POS). It identifies Kim S. Cameron, David S. Bright, and Arran Caza as the most influential researchers within this field and portrays commonalities, differences, and inconsistencies among the various notions of organizational virtuousness offered in positive organizational literature throughout the last 15 years. While the commonalities refer to attributes, levels of analyses, outcomes, and methodology, the variances concern the locus of residence, the priority of outcomes, indicators, supporting features and the virtues included in positive organizational virtuousness. The analysis further discusses the strengths and weaknesses of these differences and stresses the challenges which the POS movement needs to face in order to clarify its definition of organizational virtuousness and, maybe, converge on one unified meaning. Finally, these challenges are summarized and linked to future research proposals which offer potential ideas on how to further develop the concept of positive organizational virtuousness.
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Title
The Evolution and Challenges of the Concept of Organizational Virtuousness in Positive Organizational Scholarship
Author
Marcel Meyer
Publication date
30-11-2016
Publisher
Springer Netherlands
Published in
Journal of Business Ethics / Issue 1/2018
Print ISSN: 0167-4544
Electronic ISSN: 1573-0697
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/s10551-016-3388-z

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