Humility in Business: A Contextual Approach
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- 作者：Magnus Frostenson
- 关键词：Business ; Context ; Humility ; Network theory ; Resource dependence theory ; Self ; sufficiency ; Stakeholder theory ; Virtue
- 刊名：Journal of Business Ethics
- 出版年：2016
- 出版时间：September 2016
- 年：2016
- 卷：138
- 期：1
- 页码：91-102
- 全文大小：431 KB
- 刊物类别：Humanities, Social Sciences and Law
- 刊物主题：Philosophy
Ethics
Economic Growth
Management
Quality of Life Research - 出版者：Springer Netherlands
- ISSN：1573-0697
- 卷排序：138
文摘
The virtue of humility is often considered to be at odds with common business practice. In recent years, however, scholars within business ethics and leadership have shown an increasing interest in humility. Despite such attention, the argument for the relevance of humility in business could be expanded. Unlike extant research that focuses on humility as a character-building virtue or instrumentally useful leadership trait, this article argues that humility reflects the interdependent nature of business. Through such an approach, the article gives an extrinsic motivation of the relevance of humility in business, and, from a theoretical point of view, links the intra-personal and intra-organizational perspective on humility to an inter-organizational one. The article contextualizes the virtue of humility by relating it to the economic, cognitive, and moral aspects of business practice and managerial work. It claims that the assumption of self-sufficiency in business is a grave misrepresentation of what business is—a practice characterized by interdependency. Potential links between virtue ethics, leadership, and contextually oriented theories of business, such as stakeholder theory, network theories, and resource dependence theory, are also identified.