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Ethical Challenges in Strategic Management: The 19th IESE International Symposium on Ethics, Business and Society

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This paper is the Introduction to the Special Issue comprising a selection of papers submitted to the 19th IESE International Symposium on Ethics, Business and Society. The main topic of the Symposium was “Ethical Challenges in Strategic Management.” The paper presents the rationale and context of the Symposium. We begin with a brief historical overview of the evolution of the relationship between ethics and strategy. We propose four pillars that are at the core of a definition of strategy and elaborate on how ethics can contribute to strategy. We present the six papers that make up this selection within the framework of the four aspects introduced in the previous section. We conclude with some proposals for further research that consider the content of the papers.

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  1. Business Ethics Department, IESE Business School, Avda. Pearson, 21, 08034, Barcelona, Spain

    Joan Fontrodona

  2. Strategic Management Department/Carl Schroeder Chair of Strategic Management, IESE Business School, Avda. Pearson, 21, 08034, Barcelona, Spain

    Joan Enric Ricart

  3. Strategic Management Department/Schneider Electric Chair of Sustainability and Business Strategy, IESE Business School, Avda. Pearson, 21, 08034, Barcelona, Spain

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Fontrodona, J., Ricart, J.E. & Berrone, P. Ethical Challenges in Strategic Management: The 19th IESE International Symposium on Ethics, Business and Society. J Bus Ethics 152, 887–898 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10551-018-3825-2

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