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The Olsson Center for Applied Ethics is an international leader in the field of business ethics. It serves as a critical resource for executives, scholars, students and Darden alumni who are faced with the challenges of integrating ethical thinking into business decision-making. It is ranked among the top academic centers for the study of ethics.
Case Studies
Publications
MAJOR PUBLICATIONS:
Edward Freeman, selected books:
- Strategic Management: A Stakeholder Approach
- Business Ethics: The State of the Art
- Environmentalism and the New Logic of Business
Editor, The Ruffin Series in Business Ethics, Oxford University Press, 15 books currently in the Series
Patricia Werhane, selected books:
- Moral Imagination and Management Decision-Making
- Ethical Issues in Business: A Philosophical Approach
- Employment and Employee Rights
Andrew Wicks, selected articles:
- Does Stakeholder Orientation Matter? An Empirical Examination of the Relationship Between Stakeholder Management Models and Firm Performance. (Academy of Management Journal, 1999)
- The Structure of Optimal Trust: Moral and Strategic Implications. (Academy of Management Review, 1998)
The Olsson Center has sponsored the publication of over 50 books, 125 scholarly and practitioner articles, and over 240 teaching cases.
Research actions
Areas of research
SPECIALIST: Business Ethics, Stakeholder Theory, Sustainability, Corporate Social Responsibility, Governance
MAINSTREAM: Stakeholder Theory, Strategy
Other Initiative
Initiatives
Within the Darden School, faculty collaboration around BiS and CR issues occurs among the Olsson Center and the Batten Institute in research, seminars, and other knowledge development.
Within the larger University of Virginia, Darden and its faculty are actively invovled in the Institute for Practical Ethics and Public Life at the University of Virginia.
The Business Roundtable Institute for Corporate Ethics, housed at the Darden School, is an independent entity established in partnership with Business Roundtable - an association of 160 CEOs from leading companies - to renew and enhance the link between ethical behavior and business practice.
Within the Darden School, faculty collaboration around BiS and CR issues occurs among the Olsson Center and the Batten Institute in research, seminars, and other knowledge development.
Within the larger University of Virginia, Darden and its faculty are actively invovled in the Institute for Practical Ethics and Public Life at the University of Virginia.
The collaboration between the Olsson Center for Applied Ethics and the Business Roundtable Insitute for Corporate Ethics has resulted in practitioner papers (Including "Developing Ethical Leadership," and "Company Stakeholder Responsiblity: A New Approach to CSR"), teaching cases used in professional associations, and an on-line simulation utilized by students and executive education participants.
The Batten Institute invests in applied research and outreach programs to achieve thought leadership and academic preeminence. Projects sponsored by the Insititute illuminate the best practices in the areas of entrepreneurship and innovation.
Net Impact at Darden, Building Goodness-In-April (BGIA) and Opportunity Consultants, Inc. are students clubs of our school that are active in BiS issues.
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