Plato's "Statesman" and the Nature of Business Leadership: An Analysis from an Ethical Point of View

Plato's paradigm for statesmanship in the "Statesman", the "weaving" of temperate and courageous properties, provides the contemporary business ethics theorist with an aid for determining certain problems and solutions with regard to business leadership. The history of Ameri...

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Published in:Journal of business ethics 1988-04, Vol.7 (4), p.283-294
Main Author: Klein, Sherwin
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Business ethics
Business structures
Craftsmanship
Cultural values
Individual ethics
Materialism
Morality
Personality traits
Robber barons
Statesmanship
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Summary:Plato's paradigm for statesmanship in the "Statesman", the "weaving" of temperate and courageous properties, provides the contemporary business ethics theorist with an aid for determining certain problems and solutions with regard to business leadership. The history of American business values manifests the destructive, and especially unethical, effects of deviating from this paradigm by overemphasizing one or the other of the above types of qualities. However, with the aid of Plato's model for leadership in the "Statesman" and suggestions from Peters and Waterman's In Search of Excellence, progress can be made towards constructing an adequate model for corporate leadership, especially from an ethical standpoint.
ISSN:0167-4544
1573-0697
DOI:10.1007/BF00381834