The purpose of this chapter is to introduce a view of leadership that infuses ethics into its definition. This chapter will demonstrate that previous conceptions of leadership within management literature define leadership as either amoral or having an instrumental use for values. However, we...

Public trust in business, or the degree to which external stakeholders such as the public trust business in general is largely understudied. As the relevance of public trust in business becomes ever more obvious to practitioners and scholars, the levels of trust in business have reached...

Despite the centrality of “design” to the field of organizational science, we argue that its use has remained at the level of metaphor rather than practice. Donald Schon’s concept of “reflection in action” addresses this gap by describing how managers can practice designing by...

Miranda Shaw had decided to do a Google search on the two finalists for the open position in her company. Based on the photos she saw on her preferred applicant's Facebook page, she decided to hire the other applicant, whose Internet search returned no controversial results. But Shaw found...

Declining levels of stakeholder trust in business are of concern to business executives and scholars for legitimacy and performance related effects. Research in the area of stakeholder trust in business is nascent therefore the trust formation process has been rarely examined at the stakeholder...

Employee monitoring has raised concerns from all areas of society - business organizations, employee interest groups, privacy advocates, civil libertarians, lawyers, professional ethicists, and every combination possible. Each advocate has its own rationale for or against employee monitoring...

The oft-cited privacy paradox is the perceived disconnect between individuals’ stated privacy expectations as captured in surveys and consumer market behavior in going online: i.e. individuals purport to value privacy yet still disclose information to firms. The privacy paradox is important...

Two dominant theoretical models for privacy – individual privacy preferences and context-dependent definitions of privacy – are often studied separately in information systems research. This paper unites these theories by examining how individual privacy preferences impact context-dependent...

The goal of this paper is to examine the strategic choices of firms collecting consumer data online and to identify the roles and obligations of the actors within the current network of online tracking. In doing so, the focus shifts from placing the onus on individuals to make an informed choice...

Big Data combines information from diverse sources to create knowledge, make better predictions and tailor services. This article analyzes Big Data as an industry, not a technology, and identifies the ethical issues it faces. These issues arise from reselling consumers’ data to the secondary...