The Moral Entrepreneur: A New Component of Ethical Leadership

Muel Kaptein ()
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Muel Kaptein: RSM Erasmus University Rotterdam

Journal of Business Ethics, 2019, vol. 156, issue 4, No 15, 1135-1150

Abstract: Abstract Ethical leadership has become a popular subject of empirical research in recent years. Most studies follow Brown et al.’s (Organ Behav Hum Decis Process, 97:117–134, 2005) definition of ethical leadership, which consists of two components: the moral person and the moral manager. In this paper, I argue for a third relevant component: i.e., the moral entrepreneur who creates a new ethical norm. Viewing moral entrepreneurship as a new component of ethical leadership opens up avenues for studying various antecedents and outcomes of ethical leadership that have not been acknowledged so far, or at least, not adequately.

Keywords: Ethical leadership; Corporate social responsibility; Social development; Proactive leadership; Moral entrepreneurship (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2019
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DOI: 10.1007/s10551-017-3641-0

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