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Virtue Ethics in Positive Organizational Scholarship: An Integrative Perspective
Author(s) -
Bright David S.,
Stansbury Jason,
Alzola Miguel,
Stavros Jacqueline M.
Publication year - 2011
Publication title -
canadian journal of administrative sciences / revue canadienne des sciences de l'administration
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.347
H-Index - 48
eISSN - 1936-4490
pISSN - 0825-0383
DOI - 10.1002/cjas.199
Subject(s) - virtue , virtue ethics , flourishing , scholarship , epistemology , epistemic virtue , sociology , environmental ethics , psychology , philosophy , social psychology , law , political science
The movement of Positive Organizational Scholarship (POS) aims to understand the factors that contribute to a flourishing human condition. Theorists from this group regularly invoke virtue as a foundational concept, using it to anchor the meaning of “positive.” Yet virtue ethicists have raised concerns that this grounding is based in a superficial understanding of virtue. This paper proposes an integrative framework to bridge the two perspectives, connecting the notion of “positive deviance”—popularized in POS—to the idea of virtue as a mean between extremes as understood in the philosophy of virtue ethics. Copyright © 2011 ASAC. Published by John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.