Guest Editors: Alejo José G. Sison, University of Navarre; Joan Fontrodona, IESE Business School; Edwin Hartman, Stern School of Business, New York University

For this special issue of Business Ethics Quarterly we welcome philosophical and social scientific work on the relevance, challenges, critiques, and contributions of virtue ethics and the common good to business and management in today’s global scenario. 

We seek a broad range of submissions—including both normative, philosophical research and theoretical or empirical (quantitative or qualitative) social scientific research—and we encourage contributions that make use of, and contribute to, one or more theoretical perspectives that find their place within business ethics or any other relevant fields of inquiry (such as philosophy, psychology, organization studies, sociology, political science/theory, legal theory, economics, etc.).  Ideally, manuscripts will provide a new and substantial contribution to the understanding of virtue ethics and the common good in the theory and practice of business and management, and also will make a significant contributions to the more general theoretical perspective(s) on which the manuscript is based.

Manuscripts should be prepared according to BEQ guidelines for contributors (http://www.businesethicsquarterly.org) and submitted by July 15, 2010 through BEQ’s online manuscript submission system (http://editorialexpress.com/beq). Please include a reference to “Special Issue: Virtue and the Common Good” in the “Comments” box of the submissions website. Papers will be subject to a double-blind review and acceptance will be determined by the guest editors together with the regular editors of BEQ. For further information, please contact guest editor Alejo José G. Sison (ajsison@unav.es)