James Weber
Director
Beard Center for Leadership in Ethics
Duquesne University
Pittsburgh, PA
James Weber is currently a Professor of Business Ethics and Management and the Director of the Beard Center for Leadership in Ethics at Duquesne University. He is the co-coordinator of the Masters of Science in Leadership and Business Ethics at Duquesne University and received his Ph. D. in Business Administration from the University of Pittsburgh and M.B.A. from Saint Louis University.
As Director of the Beard Center, Jim is involved in developing public forums to bring various business, non-profit and academic communities together to discuss critical issues involving ethics and leadership. Jim also provides ethics training seminars for business and community organizations. His research interests include the assessment of values, moral reasoning and ethical behavior on both the individual and organizational levels. Recently, Jim’s attention has turned toward industry-level analysis in constructing, from a grounded theory approach, social audits emphasizing a company’s stakeholder relations and program development. He also has begun to investigate the role of stakeholder salience in corporate social and sustainability reports.
He has published numerous manuscripts in various management and business ethics journals, has scores of conference proceedings publications, made more than a hundred international, national and regional presentations. Jim is the co-author of 12th edition of Business and Society: Stakeholders, Ethics, Public Policy, published by Irwin/McGraw-Hill, Inc., as well as co-authored the 8th through 11th editions. He has served as the president and program chair for the Social Issues in Management division of the Academy of Management and the International Association for Business and Society.
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