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Leadership and the deified/demonic : a cultural examination of CEO sanctification

Wray-Bliss, Edward 2012, Leadership and the deified/demonic : a cultural examination of CEO sanctification, Business ethics : a European review, vol. 21, no. 4, pp. 434-449.

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Title Leadership and the deified/demonic : a cultural examination of CEO sanctification
Author(s) Wray-Bliss, Edward
Journal name Business ethics : a European review
Volume number 21
Issue number 4
Start page 434
End page 449
Total pages 15
Publisher Blackwell
Place of publication Oxford, England
Publication date 2012-10
ISSN 0962-8770
1467-8608
Keyword(s) business culture
business ethics
Summary I examine in this paper deification and demonisation – the social attribution of absolute ‘Good’ and ‘Evil’ to individuals or individual entities. Specifically, I unpack ways that evilness and goodness have become personified in the figure of the chief executive officer in contemporary, particularly US, business culture. Showing both the readily accessible and widely used nature of these religious tropes, I nevertheless argue that both deification and demonisation have ethically and politically disempowering effects for organisational members, the wider citizenry, and for critique within the field of business ethics.
Language eng
Field of Research 150310 Organisation and Management Theory
Socio Economic Objective 910402 Management
HERDC Research category C1 Refereed article in a scholarly journal
Copyright notice ©2012, The Author
Persistent URL http://hdl.handle.net/10536/DRO/DU:30048909

Document type: Journal Article
Collections: Faculty of Business and Law
School of Management and Marketing
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