The Role of Business Ethics in Business Schools: A European Perspective

This brief paper presents a personal perspective on the role of business ethics in business schools. The discussion is divided into four phases: a) I start by presenting the most evident proofs of the current maladies in management studies; b) I then briefly discuss the institutional context of our role as scholars in business schools; c) then with the assistance of the sociology of knowledge, I give a view on the meaning of working from within the existing management paradigm; and d) finally, I present what I consider to be the current role of business ethics; namely, encouraging the institutional and academic transformation of management narratives.