Ethical Decision-Making Processes in Organizations and Public Administration

Dear Colleagues,

In reaction to recent corporate ethical scandals, nowadays, dominant public expectations and pressures are that organizations should be accountable for the ethicality of their internal and external processes, including relations with all stakeholders. These expectations extend to the public services, leading people to ask for a higher level of transparency in decision processes affecting collective life.

An enormous growth of research in the field of organizational ethics in the last decade has highlighted issues such as the influence of ethical infrastructures and leadership on the behavior of individuals in organizational context. However, the major challenge in this research field will continue to be getting a better understanding of how individuals and groups detect, judge and incorporate ethical issues into their decision-making processes.

This Special Issue represents an opportunity for scholars and practicionners from a large spectrum of disciplines to disseminate their work on ethical decision making processes in public administration and organizational contexts.

Specifically, contributions may focus on, but are not limited to, issues and problems such as:

• A decision like any other? Specificities of decisions involving ethical issues
• individual and contextual determinants of ethical decision-making.
• Power and ethics: Ethical problems in leaders’ decision-making processes.
• It’s hard to be ethical for everyone: “Blind spots” in public policy decisions.
• Is there an “unethical personality”? The case for “black triad” and beyond.
• From theory to practice: Supporting ethical decision-making through the organization.
• “Ethics? What is ethics?”. Organizational cynicism and ethical issues in organizational decision-making processes.

Prof. Dr. António Caetano
Prof. Dr. Eduardo Simões
Guest Editors

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