When Not Knowing is a Virtue: A Business Ethics Perspective

How leaders and managers respond to not knowing is highly relevant given the complex, ambiguous, and chaotic business environment of the twenty-first century. Drawing on the literature from a variety of disciplines, the paper explores the dominant, unfavorable conceptualization of not knowing. The a...

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Authors: Crossman, Joanna (Author) ; Doshi, Vijayta (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Springer 2015
In: Journal of business ethics
Year: 2015, Volume: 131, Issue: 1, Pages: 1-8
Further subjects:B Negative capability
B Not knowing
B Knowing
B Virtue Ethics
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