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Journal of Business Ethics
Erschienen in: Journal of Business Ethics 3/2020

25.05.2019 | Review Paper

Academia After Virtue? An Inquiry into the Moral Character(s) of Academics

verfasst von: Daniela Pianezzi, Hanne Nørreklit, Lino Cinquini

Erschienen in: Journal of Business Ethics | Ausgabe 3/2020

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Abstract

An extensive literature has focused on the impact of new public management (NPM) oriented structural changes on academics’ practice and identity. These critical studies have been resolute in concluding that NPM inevitably leads to a degeneration of academics’ ethos and values. Drawing from the moral philosophy of Alasdair MacIntyre, we argue that these previous analyses have overlooked the moral agency of the academics and their role in ‘moralizing’ and consequently shaping the ethical nature of their practices. The paper provides a new theoretical understanding of NPM-oriented reforms in light of the virtue ethics approach, thereby directing the attention to the moral character and moral agency of academics. Our analysis of interviews collected in the business department of a Danish university provides an example of how individuals have divergent ethical understandings of these structural changes and enact/resist pre-defined social roles in different ways. While in some cases the NPM agenda of the institutions has triggered internal moral conflict and a crisis of moral character, in other cases the new logic resonates with academics’ values and evaluative standards. Partially departing from the theoretical ground of MacIntyre (1981), we conclude that academics can play a crucial role in shaping the morality of NPM-oriented institutions and in transforming these settings into suitable contexts for the cultivation of virtues.
Vorheriger Artikel Moral Disengagement at Work: A Review and Research Agenda
Nächster Artikel Corporate Philanthropy as a Context for Moral Agency, a MacIntyrean Enquiry

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Metadaten
Titel
Academia After Virtue? An Inquiry into the Moral Character(s) of Academics
verfasst von
Daniela Pianezzi
Hanne Nørreklit
Lino Cinquini
Publikationsdatum
25.05.2019
Verlag
Springer Netherlands
Erschienen in
Journal of Business Ethics / Ausgabe 3/2020
Print ISSN: 0167-4544
Elektronische ISSN: 1573-0697
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/s10551-019-04185-w

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