Dear Colleagues:
Attached is a call for papers for a special issue of JME on Teaching
Business Ethics. We are excited about the possibilities for this issue and
hope that you will read the call and consider submitting an article. The
deadline for submission is August 15.
We encourage those with undeveloped or unusual ideas to get in touch with
us early in this process.
If you are interested in helping out with reviewing, please get back to me
at
gillesj@cox.net with your full contact information and any areas of
special expertise that might be helpful to us when selecting reviewers.
Your editors...
Janet Gillespie -
gillesj@cox.net
Jeri Mullins Beggs -
jmbeggs@ilstu.edu
Kathy Lund Dean -
lundkath@isu.edu;
Joan Weiner -
weinerjl@drexel.edu
CALL FOR PAPERS
SPECIAL ISSUE OF
THE JOURNAL OF MANAGEMENT EDUCATION
"TEACHING BUSINESS ETHICS:
THE STATE OF OUR CRAFT"
Have business schools failed in fulfilling their ethical obligations to
society and to their students? It is likely that none of us would want to
be given credit for helping create the rich (pun intended) Enron, Arthur
Anderson, WorldCom, Tyco, InClone, Adelphia, G.E., etc., examples of
corporate corruption that have become part of our management discussions
lately. Yet nearly all of the folks involved once were in our schools and
possibly even our own classrooms. As educators, what kind of ethical
footprints are we creating and leaving for our students (and our
colleagues) to follow? How do we do it and where do those footprints
lead? What is it that we are really doing when we think we are teaching
ethics?
These are not new questions, but they are taking on increasing urgency as,
over the past few years, we have witnessed growing attention to the
large-scale failures of ethical behavior by both prominent executives and
lower-level employees. The rash of recent scandals, as well as increased
recognition of the relationship between country culture and business
behavior on the part of organizations that conduct business
internationally, have caused people to search for causes and
solutions. Not surprisingly, the spotlight has fallen on business schools
for insight and help. They have been challenged to reconsider their role
in the ethical lives of students. Faculty are being called to step up to
the plate and become part of the solution. What are we doing in response
to this challenge?
Since AACSB accreditation requires that degree programs must contain a
business ethics component, business schools do appear to have a role to
play. The special issue of JME seeks to assemble the latest and most
relevant discourse and experience on the matter of teaching ethics in
business schools and/or in the corporate setting. The special issue will
seek to synthesize and update the pedagogical debate as well as provide
classroom resources for the teaching of business ethics.
The editors are soliciting offerings which scan a broad range of relevant
topics significant to the challenge of teaching ethics in schools of
business. For example:
1. Empirical research on the nature and effectiveness of various ways
ethics is addressed in the business curriculum, classroom, or corporate
setting.
2. Specific classroom techniques or assignments that have the power to
improve decision-making ability and/or behavior.
3.Innovations in teaching, training, or curriculum.
4. Model curricula.
5.Case studies: Cases useful for teaching topics in the ethics
curriculum or cases demonstrating how academic administrative structures
have failed in an ethical sense.
6. Issues pertaining to training faculty to teach business ethics or model
programs for training the trainer.
7. Instructor issues particular to those who teach ethics.
8. Reports on tools for measuring effectiveness of ethics training.
9. Theory, research, and methods focusing on multicultural or gender issues.
10. Experiential approaches for teaching ethics.
11. Articles linking what business needs, what AACSB requires, and what
instructors are doing.
12. Other articles directly related to the effective teaching of
business ethics.
We wish to encourage papers that address this topic in new and creative
ways. We, therefore, request those who have underdeveloped or unusual
ideas to contact the editorial team quickly at
EthicsIssue@cox.net or call
Janet Gillespie at 504-836-0567.
PAPERS ARE DUE BY AUGUST 15, 2004. THEY SHOULD CONFORM TO APA GUIDELINES
AND BE SUBMITTED IN MS-WORD FORMAT TO
ETHICSISSUE@COX.NET AS AN ATTACHMENT
TO AN E-MAIL FROM THE PRIMARY CORRESPONDENT.
Anyone interested in being a reviewer for the special issues should send an
email to Janet Gillespie at
gillesj@cox.net (all lowercase) giving a list
of your primary areas of interest and your full contact information.
Editors for the special issues are (in alphabetical order): Jeri Mullins
Beggs, Ph.D.;
Marketing Department; Illinois State University; 118 Williams Hall; Normal,
IL 61790;
jmbeggs@ilstu.edu; 309-438-5564; Kathy Lund Dean, Ph.D.; Idaho State
University;
Management Department; Box 8020; Pocatello, ID 83209-8020;
lundkath@isu.edu;
208-282-3461 (office); 208-282-4367 (fax); Janet Gillespie, Ph.D.; 316 Rue
Saint Peter;
Metairie, LA 70005-3472;
gillesj@cox.net; 504-836-0567; and Joan Weiner;
Ph.D.; LeBow College of Business, Department of Management, Drexel
University;
Weinerjl@drexel.edu; 215-895-1797 (office); 215-895-2891 (fax).
Joan Weiner
Drexel University
LeBow College of Business
Management Department
Philadelphia, Pa. 19104
(215) 895-1797
(215) 895-2891 - fax