Alejo Jose G. Sison

Alejo José G. Sison, PhD, is president of the European Business Ethics Network (EBEN). He holds appointments from the Philosophy Department and the Institute for Enterprise and Humanism (University of Navarre), as well as accreditation from the Spanish state university system. He is also senior research fellow at the Center for Business and Society of IESE. He was director of the Rafael Escolá Chair of Professional Ethics at the School of Engineering (TECNUN) from 2003 to 2007. Previously, he worked at the University of Asia & the Pacific (Manila).
In 1997, he was appointed Fulbright Senior Research Fellow and Visiting Scholar at Harvard University. Since then, he has received fellowships from the 21st Century Trust Foundation (London), the Academic Council on the United Nations System (Yale University), the American Society of International Law (Washington DC), the Salzburg Seminar, Bentley College (Waltham, MA) and the Policy and Leadership Studies Department of the National Institute of Education, Nanyang Technological University (Singapore). He began to form part of the Editorial board of the Journal of Business Ethics in 2009.
His research deals with the issues at the juncture of ethics with economics and politics. His book, “The Moral Capital of Leaders. Why Virtue Matters” (Cheltenham, UK/Northampton, MA: Edward Elgar, Ltd., 2003), has been translated into Spanish and Chinese. He is also co-author and co-editor of “Global Perspectives on Ethics of Corporate Governance” (New York: Palgrave MacMillan, 2006). His latest work, “Corporate Governance and Ethics: An Aristotelian Perspective” (Cheltenham, UK/Northampton, MA: Edward Elgar, Ltd., 2008) with a foreword by Prof. Jeffrey Pfeffer came out in July, 2008.


    A moral roadmap for European renewal

    16 Dec 2011 |
    tags: democracy, European identity, natural law
    Nothing less than a return to the foundations of justice in nature and reason will do.



    The happiness of believing

    6 Dec 2011 |
    tags: Europe, happiness, religion
    Europeans who belong to a religion report higher levels of happiness than those who do not.



    How do religious belief and practice affect Europeans’ happiness?

    29 Nov 2011 |
    tags: atheism, Europe, happiness, religion
    Europe is often described as a godless wasteland. That's not what the statistics show.



    “Economics is not a morality play” And so?

    1 Oct 2010 |
    tags: business ethics, economics, recession
    An ethicist challenges a leading economist's claim that the market is necessarily amoral.



    Banking should be boring

    8 Jan 2010 |
    tags: banking, global financial crisis, remuneration
    Changing the rules of the game may help safeguard our money. But the most important reform is bankers' characters.



    What’s love got to do with it?

    13 Aug 2009 |
    tags: Benedict XVI, Catholic social teaching, Christianity, economics
    A business ethicist offers a professional view of Pope Benedict XVI's latest encyclical on ethics in business, 'Caritas in veritate'.



    An oath to be ethical

    5 Jun 2009 |
    tags: human dignity
    Some business graduates are leaving Harvard clutching a pledge card. But what difference will it make?



    What can economists tell us about happiness?

    27 May 2009 |
    tags: human dignity
    Given the discoveries of modern "Happiness Studies", isthere any role left for virtue? Does ethics continue to have a say on happiness, or shouldit give up the turf to economics and psychology?



    The peak of deception

    18 Dec 2008 |
    tags:
    The racket perpetrated by Bernie Madoff may be the biggest so far, but it certainly won't be the last.



    Happiness is not a lottery win

    4 Apr 2008 |
    tags:
    Money has much less to do with happiness than we commonly assume.


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