Stepping down rather than up: the ethical option for business in our troubling times

Chapter Author(s)

Donna Ladkin, Antioch University - PhD Program in Leadership and ChangeFollow

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Full Title

Ethical Business Leadership in Troubling Times

Editor(s)

Joanne B. Ciulla and Tobey K. Scharding

Abstract

In an interview with the New York Times in August of 2017, the Chief Executive of Apple Computers, Tim Cook was quoted to have said that because government was becoming ‘less functional’ and ‘less able to work at the speed it once did’, businesses and other areas of society needed to ‘step up’ to fulfil the roles that government once played (Sorkin, 2017). This chapter argues a contrary view: that the truly ethical response for business in our troubling times is to step ‘down’, rather than ‘up’.

Department

Leadership, Management & Business

ISBN

9781789903041

DOI

https://doi.org/10.4337/9781789903058

Publisher

Edwin Elgar

Document Type

Book Chapter

Publication Date

2019

Recommended Citation

Ladkin, D. (2019). Stepping down rather than up: the ethical option for business in our troubling times. Ethical Business Leadership in Troubling Times. https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.4337/9781789903058