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Virtue Ethics in Positive Organizational Scholarship: An Integrative Perspective

2011; Wiley; Volume: 28; Issue: 3 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1002/cjas.199

1936-4490

David S. Bright, Jason Stansbury, Miguel Alzola, Jacqueline M. Stavros,

Free Will and Agency

Abstract 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.