Bernard Mees - The Rise of Business Ethics

The ideas presented in this book reflect a long intellectual process. Upon becoming responsible for teaching a course on business ethics in 2008, it quickly became apparent to me that the field lacked a proper history. As a historian of ideas who had somehow ended up in a business school, this struck me as representing a considerable opportunity. But I had never been very comfortable with ethics as it was taught in philosophy departments.

My first teachers in ethics at university were Robin Jackson and Chris Mackie, who introduced me to Socrates and Plato while I was an undergraduate student at the University of Melbourne. I also took courses with Tim Mehigan and Gerhard Schultz, which first exposed me to the German tradition. Brian Scarlett provided my first insight into Aquinas during my honours year and I know most of what I remember about Martin Luther and John Calvin from Charles Zikas subjects on the Reformation. I may have been the only person in the School of Management who had formally studied ethics as an undergraduate at the time I started fulltime as a lecturer at the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology.

At RMIT, Eva Tsahuridu introduced me to the ethical decision-making literature and George Cairns revived my interest in prudence. Ben Reynolds helped me put together my thoughts on ethical leadership, and any number of colleagues gave me useful advice as I presented some of my preliminary ideas at conferences. Many of the students, tutors and other colleagues I have taught with at RMIT and the University of Tasmania have also influenced the development of this book. David Varley at Routledge approached me to write a monograph on the topic after I had contributed two chapters to Routledge Companions on the history of business ethicsthe Routledge Companion to Business History and the Routledge Companion to Business Ethics (Mees 2017a, 2018).

Outside the confines of university life, my late brother Paul was the first person to introduce me to Jacques Maritain and Catholic social thought. I still use my father Toms old copy of Platos Republic , and I owe most of what I know about 1950s Catholicism to my mother Roma. It is the 100th anniversary this year of when my grandfathers Ben Mees and Reg Kelly returned home from the First World War after serving in the Royal Navy and the Australian Imperial Force respectively. But the person who has most influenced the writing of this book is my partner Katy.

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