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Organizational Virtue

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Handbook of Virtue Ethics in Business and Management

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This chapter considers positive organizational scholarship’s empirical research on the phenomenon of organizational virtue, which refers to the virtuous characteristics embodied in organizations as collectives. The nature of organizational virtue is discussed, relative to psychological and virtue ethics perspectives. Research findings are summarized, including a consideration of the mechanisms of buffering and amplifying that are presumed to underlie the observed relationships among organizational virtue and various outcomes. The chapter concludes with a reflection on future directions for the study of organizational virtue.

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  1. I.H. Asper School of Business, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, MB, Canada

    Arran Caza

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  1. School of Economics and Business Administration, University of Navarra, Pamplona, Spain

    Alejo José G. Sison

  2. Department of Philosophy, Saint Louis University , St. Louis, Missouri, USA

    Gregory R. Beabout

  3. School of Economics and Business Administration, Business Department, University of Navarra, Pamploma, Spain

    Ignacio Ferrero

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Caza, A. (2017). Organizational Virtue. In: Sison, A., Beabout, G., Ferrero, I. (eds) Handbook of Virtue Ethics in Business and Management. International Handbooks in Business Ethics. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-6510-8_30

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