Entrepreneurial ethics

Kindle and audio versions: “What Business Ethics Can Learn from Entrepreneurship”

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My essay is available at Amazon in Kindle e-book format. It was for awhile on the Social Science Research Network’s “Top Ten” list of papers in the Entrepreneurship Research & Policy Network. It has also been translated into Serbo-Croatian translation. Abstract: “Entrepreneurship is increasingly studied as a fundamental and foundational economic phenomenon. It has, however, […]

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Audio edition: What Business Ethics Can Learn from Entrepreneurship

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How well do entrepreneurial success traits (creative rationality, initiative, courage, perseverance, and so on) map onto virtue ethics? An audio edition [mp3] of my 2009 essay “What Business Ethics Can Learn from Entrepreneurship” [pdf], first published in Journal of Private Enterprise. Or at YouTube: Abstract: Entrepreneurship is increasingly studied as a fundamental and foundational economic

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“What Business Ethics Can Learn from Entrepreneurship” — text and audio versions

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My short essay on “What Business Ethics Can Learn from Entrepreneurship” [pdf] was published in the Journal of Private Enterprise in 2009, just when entrepreneurism was beginning to get attention in the business ethics literature. The abstract: “Entrepreneurship is increasingly studied as a fundamental and foundational economic phenomenon. It has, however, received less attention as

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Andy Grove on the entrepreneurial employee

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From the preface to Andy Grove‘s (recommended) Only the Paranoid Survive: “The sad news is, nobody owes you a career. Your career is literally your business. You own it as a sole proprietor. You have one employee: yourself. You are in competition with millions of similar businesses: millions of other employees all over the world.

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Dr. Terry Noel on the Virtuous Entrepreneur [video interview transcript]

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Interview conducted at Rockford University by Stephen Hicks and sponsored by the Center for Ethics and Entrepreneurship. Hicks: I am Stephen Hicks. Our guest today is Professor Terry Noel, who teaches Entrepreneurship and Management at Illinois State. He is here today at Rockford College speaking on the theme of the virtuous entrepreneur. Interesting title, but

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Terry Noel on The Virtuous Entrepreneur — transcript

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Interview conducted at Rockford University by Stephen Hicks and sponsored by the Center for Ethics and Entrepreneurship. Hicks: I’m Stephen Hicks. Our guest today is Professor Terry Noel, who teaches Entrepreneurship and Management at Illinois State, here today at Rockford College speaking on the theme of the virtuous entrepreneur. Interesting title, but your broader context

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Upcoming keynote speech (and one other) in Nanjing, China

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I will be participating in the 2nd International Conference on CSR, Sustainability, Ethics & Governance, Building New Bridges Between Business & Society, to be held in Nanjing, P.R., China, from July 29 to 31 and hosted by the Nanjing University of Finance and Economics. My contributions to the conference will be two talks. One will

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