Curriculum Vitae
Richard P. Nielsen
Professor, Organizational Studies Department
Office phone, (617) 552-0456
FAX: 617-244-0204
e-mail: richard.nielsen@bc.edu
Biography. Richard P. Nielsen is Professor,
Organization Studies Department, Carroll School of Management,
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Service and Experience, including:
- Editorial and Professional Associations
- Service within
- Major consulting, international teaching, and applied research projects
- Community service
Personal Data and Education History
Book
- Richard P. Nielsen, The
Politics of Ethics: Methods For Acting, Learning, and Sometimes Fighting, With
Others In Addressing Ethics Problems in Organizational Life.
Articles, Book Chapters, and Special Issues of Journals
In earlier versions, most of the following seventy-plus articles
and book chapters were presented at the national conferences of the
- Organization Studies Special Issue, “In Search of Organizational Virtue: Moral Agency in Organizations,” Richard P. Nielsen, Editor, March, 2006.
- “Editorial Introduction to Special Issue,” “In Search of Organizational Virtue: Moral Agency in Organizations,” Richard P. Nielsen, Editor, March, 2006.
- “ Think Macro, Act Micro: Investor Capitalism and Ethics Action Methods,” in Organizational Behavior Reader, Joyce Osland and David Kolb, Editor, Prentice-Hall, 2006.
- “Can Ethical Organizational Character Be Stimulated and Enabled?: ‘Upbuilding Dialog As Crisis Management Method,” Journal of Business Ethics, 2005.
- “Systematic Corruption in Financial Services, Types of
Capitalism, and Ethics Intervention Methods,” Business & Professional Ethics Journal, Vol. 23, Nos. 1&2,
2004, pp. 1-31. Keynote address to Carlson School of Management,
- “Ethics Intervention Methods for Ecclesial Professionals,”
in Jean Bartunek, Mary Ann Hinsdale, and James Keenan, Editors, Church Ethics and its Organizational Context.
- “What can
financial professionals do about unethical behavior in the financial services
industries,” Oeconomico Tahydromos, 2004.
- “Ethics and
Organizational Theory: Varieties and Dynamics of Constrained Optimization in
Different Types of Capitalism,” in Haridimos Tsoukas and Christian Knudsen (Eds.),
The
- “Corruption
Networks and Implications For Ethical Corruption Reform,” Journal of
Business Ethics, 42, pp. 125-149, 2003.
- “Business Ethics
and the
- “Can Ethical
Character Be Stimulated and Enabled? An Action-Learning Approach To Teaching
and Learning Organization Ethics,” in John Dienhart, Dennis Moberg, Ron Duska,
(Eds.), The Next Phase of Business Ethics: Integrating Psychlogy and Ethics,
Research In Ethical Issues in Organizations, JAI Press, 2003, pp. 51-80.
Reprinted from earlier journal article.
- “Changing
Unethical Organizational Behavior,” in Joyce S. Osland, David A. Kolb, and
Irwin M. Rubin, Eds., The Organizational
Behavior Reader, Prentice-Hall, 2003, Reprinted from earlier journal article.
- “Why do we remain
silent in the face of unethical organizational behavior,”
- “What can we do
about unethical organizational silence,”
- “Business Citizenship and
- “The Politics of Long Term Corruption Reform: A Combined Social Movement and Action-Learning Approach,” Business Ethics Quarterly, 2000, 10, 1, January, pp. 305-317.
- “Do Internal Due Process Systems Permit Adequate Political and Moral Space for Ethics Voice, Praxis, and Community?” Journal of Business Ethics, 24, 1 2000, pp. 1-27.
- “Intrapreneurship as a Peaceful and Ethicsl Transition Strategy Toward Privatization,” Journal of Business Ethics, 25, 2000, pp. 157-167.
- “The Politics of Resisting and Reforming Systematic Extortion By Tax Auditors-Inspectors,” Business Ethics: A European Review, 2000, 9, 2, April, pp. 76-86. Published by the European Business Ethics Network, with Apostolos Ballas.
- “Can Ethical Character Be Stimulated and Enabled? An Action-Learning Approach To Teaching and Learning Organizational Ethics,” Business Ethics Quarterly, 8, 3, July, 1998, pp. 581-504.
- “Quaker Foundations for Greenleaf’s Servant Leadership and
‘Friendly Disentangling’ Method,” in Insights
on Leadership: Service, Stewardship, Spirit, and Servant-Leadership,
Editor, Larry C. Spears,
- “Hannah Arendt,” The
Blackwell Encyclopedic Dictionary of Business Ethics.
- “Organization Ethics,” The
Blackwell Encyclopedic Dictionary of Business Ethics.
- “Praxis,” The
Blackwell Encyclopedic Dictionary of Business Ethics.
- “Opening Narrow, Routinized Schemata To Ethical Stakeholder Consciousness and Action,” Business and Society, 1996, 35, 4, pp. 483-519, co-authored with Jean M. Bartunek.
- Varieties of Dialectic Change Processes,” Journal of Management Inquiry, 5, 4, September, 1996, pp. 276-292.
- "Woolman's 'I Am We' Triple-Loop, Action-Learning: Origin and Application in Organization Ethics," Journal of Applied Behavioral Science, 29, 1, March, 1993, pp. 117-138.
- "Triple-Loop Action Learning As Human Resources Management Method," Research in International Human Resources Management, JAI Research Series, 1993, pp. 75-94.
- "Varieties of Postmodernism as Moments In Ethics Action-Learning," Business Ethics Quarterly, 3, 3, 1993, pp. 251-269.
- "Organizational Ethics From A Perspective of Action (Praxis)," Business Ethics Quarterly, 3, 2, 1993, pp.131-151.
- "'I Am We' Consciousness and Dialog As Organizational Ethics Method," Journal of Business Ethics, 10, 9, l991, pp. 649-663.
- "Dialogic Leadership As Organizational Ethics Action (Praxis) Method," Journal of Business Ethics, 9, l990, pp. 765-783.
- "Changing Unethical Organizational Behavior,"
- "Cooperative Strategy," Strategic Management Journal, 9, 5, Sept.-Oct., l988, pp. 475-492.
- "Limitations of Ethical Reasoning As An Action (Praxis) Method," Journal of Business Ethics, 7, l988, pp. 725-733.
- "Cooperative Strategies," Planning Review, March, 1986, pp. l6-20, reprinted in McKinsey Quarterly, (manager oriented version of SMJ "Cooperative Strategy" article.)
- "Piggybacking For Nonprofits: A Shared Costs Based Cross-Subsidization Strategy," Strategic Management Journal, 7, Spring, l986, pp. 20l - 2l5.
- "Alternative Managerial Responses To Unethical
Management," paper won first prize in the annual "Best Paper in
Corporate and Organization Planning" competition given jointly by the
Foundation for Administrative Research, the Planning Executives Institute, and
the North American Society for Corporate Planning. The award was presented at
the annual
- "Intrapreneurship Strategy for Internal Markets - Corporate, Nonprofit and Government Institution Cases," (strategy for balancing cooperation and competition) Strategic Management Journal, 6, 1985, pp. l8l-l89 (with Michael Peters and Robert Hisrich).
- Book review/essay on The Evolution of Cooperation by Robert Axelrod. New York: Basic Books, l984 in The Academy of Management Review, 10, 2, April, 1985, pp. 368-37l.
- Book review/essay on Reason in Human Affairs by Herbert A. Simon, Stanford University Press, l983 in Strategic Management Journal, 6, 2, April-June, l985, pp. l92-l94.
- "Arendt's Action Philosophy and the Manager as Eichmann, Richard III, Faust, or Institution Citizen," California Management Review, 26, 3, Spring l984, pp. 191-201.
- "Pluralism in the Mass Media: Can Management Participation Help?" Journal of Business Ethics, 3, l984, pp. 335-34l.
- "How Piggybacking Affects Your Tax Exempt Status," Fund Raising Management, June, l984, pp. 1, 32-40, l02.
- Book review/essay on, Do It My Way Or You're Fired: Employee Rights and the Changing Role of Management Prerogatives by David W. Ewing. New York: John Wiley & Sons, l983 in The Academy of Management Review, 8, 4, l983, pp. 70l-703.
- "Training Programs: Pulling Them into Sync with Your Company's Strategic Planning," Personnel, 60, 3, May-June, l983, pp. l9-26.
- "Strategic Planning and
- "Industrial Policy: Review and Historical Perspective," Public Administration Review, 43, 5, September-October l983, pp. 471-475.
- "Should a Country Move Toward International Strategic Market Planning," California Management Review, 25, 2, January l983, pp. 34-44.
- Book review/essay on The
Quaker Enterprise: Friends in Business by David Windsor.
- "Strategic Piggybacking: A Self-Subsidization Strategy for Nonprofit Institutions," Sloan Management Review, 23, 4, Summer l982, pp. 65-69.
- Book review/essay on David Riesman, On Higher Education: The Academic
Enterprise In An Era Of Rising Student Consumerism, Jossey-Bass, l981, in International Journal of Institutional Management in Higher Education, 6, 2, July, l982, pp. 169-l72.
- "Toward A Method For Building Consensus During Strategic Planning," Sloan Management Review, 22, 4, Summer l98l, pp. 29-40.
- "Use of Arbitration in Government-Business Relations," Public Relations Review, 7, 2, Summer, l98l, pp. 29-32.
- Book review/essay on Ombudsmen Compared by Frank Stacey, Cambridge University Press, l979, in The Academy of Management Review, 5, l, January, l980, pp. l44-l46.
- "Evaluating Opportunities For Academic Programs With A Program-Employment Opportunities-Competing Institutions Index," College and University, 19, 1, Summer, 1980, pp. 178-182.
- Book review/essay on Contested Terrain: The Transformation of the Workplace in the Twentieth Century by Richard Edwards, Basic Books in The Academy of Management Review, 5, 3, October, l980, pp. l44-l46.
- "How Inclusive Should a Consulting Report Be in a Participative Decision-Making Situation?" Personnel Review, Summer, l980, pp. 54-55.
- "Stages In Moving Toward Cooperative Problem Solving Labor Relations And A Case Study," Human Resource Management, l8, 3, Fall, l979, pp. 2-9.
- "Using Wage Indexing To Counter Stagflation," Business Horizons, August, l979, pp. 32-33.
- "Cultural-Economic Nationalism and International Trade Policy," The Academy of Management Review, 4, 3, July, l979, pp. 449-452.
- Alternatives For Increasing Choice In Concentrated Market Situations," Journal of Consumer Affairs, l4, 3, Winter, l979, pp. 282-296.
- "Should Executives Be Jailed For Organizational Behavior That Causes Worker Injuries and Deaths?" Labor Law Journal, 29, 9, September, l978, pp. 582-586.
- "Legal-Ethical Interactions in Journalism," in Bernard Rubin, ed., Questioning Media Ethics. N.Y. Praeger, l978, pp. 180-208.
- "Benefit-type Seniority, Competitive-type Seniority, and Retroactive Compensation For Past Discrimination," The American Business Law Journal, l5, 2, Fall, l977, pp. 242-248.
- Implications Of The Equal Credit Act Amendments of l976," Journal of Consumer Affairs, 11, 1, Winter, 1977, pp. 167-170.
- "Public Policy and Price Discrimination In Favor Of Nonprofit Organizations," The Academy of Management Review, 2, 2, April l977, pp. 316-319.
- "Court Gives Edge To Nonprofit Broadcasters," Journalism Quarterly, 54, 2, Summer, l977, pp. 385-7, 440.
- "Support For Live Artistic Media," The American Journal of Economics and Sociology, 35, 2, April, l976, pp. 149-160 (C. McQueen and A.B. Nielsen).
- Book Review, Charles Kadushin, The American Intellectual Elite. Boston, Little, Brown, l974 in Public Opinion Quarterly, 40, Fall, l976, pp. 4l7-4l9.
- "International Trade and Policy in Mass Media Materials: Television Programs, Films, Books, and Magazines," CULTURES, 3, 3, l976, l96-205.
- "U.S. Penetration of the Canadian Television Program Market," The Columbia Journal of World Business, Spring, l976, pp. l30-l39.
- "Canadian TV Content Regulation and U.S. Cultural 'Overflow'," Journal of Broadcasting, 20, 4, Fall, l976, pp. 461-466.
- "Performing Arts Audience Segments: A Case Study," Performing Arts Review: The Journal of Management & Law of the Arts, 6, 2, l975, pp. 301-312.
- "Attendance Types of Performing Arts Events and Explanations For Attendance and Non-Attendance," Performing Arts Review: The Journal of Management & Law of the Arts, 6, 1, l975, pp. 43-70 (with Angela B. Nielsen and Charles McQueen).
- "The Arts As Persuasive Communication for Social Planning," Mass Communications Review, May, l975, pp. l7-22.
- "Communications and Fatalism," Journalism Quarterly, 5l, l, Spring, l974, pp. 56-6l (with Angela B. Nielsen).
- "Communicating With and Motivating High Fatalists," The American Journal of Economics and Sociology, October, l973, 32, 4, pp. 337-350.
Teaching evaluations.
- Ph.D. students, MBA students, undergraduate students, and executives evaluate me as a teacher between 4.3 and 5.0 on a scale of 5.0.
Courses taught.
- Among the courses I have taught are the following: Organizational Ethics Methods; Organizational Behavior; Negotiating; Leadership; Organization Change and Transformation - An Intellectual History of the Idea of Change; Human Resources Management; International Management; Introduction to Management; and, Corruption and Ethics Reform Methods.
Ph.D. Students
- Several of my students have won Best Divisional Paper
awards at the annual
Editorial
and Professional Service
- Society For Business Ethics and Business Ethics Quarterly. I was elected to the Board of Directors and will be serving as President and Program Chair of the Society For Business Ethics. I have been a member of the Society for Business Ethics for more than twenty years, was chairperson of the committee that wrote the original by-laws of the society, and have served on the Editorial Board of Business Ethics Quarterly since its inception
- Organization Studies and European Group for Organization Studies. I am currently serving as Senior Editor for Ethics and Social Responsibility related articles of Organization Studies, the journal of the European Group for Organizational Studies.
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- Editorial Referee
(different times): Academy of Management Journal, Academy of Management Review, Business
Ethics Quarterly, Business and Society, Columbia Journal of World Business, The
Employee Rights and Responsibilities Journal, Human Resources Management, Journal
of Applied Behavioral Science, Journal
of Business Ethics, Organization Science, Organization Studies, Sloan
Management Review, and Strategic
Management Journal.
- Reporter/researcher, The New York Times (l978) on project concerning criminal penalties for managers in situations where consumer and employee injuries and deaths are caused by organizational behavior.
- University of Virginia, Biannual Ruffin Lecture Series, Business and the Humanities, Seminar Participant, 1988, 1990, 1992, 1994, 1997, 1999, 2002.
Service Within
- Director, Ph.D. Program in Organization Studies, 1997 to 2001.
- Member, Ethics Initiative Committee, 1986 to present.
- Board Member, Faith, Peace and Justice Program, 1990 to present.
- Co-Coordinator, Boston College Jesuit Institute Faculty Seminar on “Institutional Impediments To Ethical Behavior,” 1999 to 2001.
- Member, Boston College Jesuit Institute, Justice in Jesuit Higher Education Committee.
- Member, Organizational Studies Ph.D. Committee.
- Faculty Advisor, Human Resources and Organizational Development Academy, 1988-1996.
- Chairperson, International Management Committee.
- Academic coordinator, six week summer international management program for international managers, Boston College, 1985-1987.
- Member, joint Ph.D. Sociology and MBA degree program committee, 1981-1986.
- Undergraduate Capstone Course Committee,
- PULSE Program, taught Negotiating in the PULSE Program, an undergraduate "social service and academic reflection" program, BC.
- Coordinator, SOM Works in Progress faculty seminars, BC, 1982-1985.
- Member, University Planning Council, BC, 1983-1985.
- Chairperson, MBA Core Committee, BC, 1984-1985.
Major Consulting, International Teaching, and Applied
Research Projects.
- Visiting
Aristides Daskalopoulos Professor of Business Ethics,
- Norges Bank Investment Management/Government Pension Fund-Global.
Helped develop and lead seminar for Corporate Governance Group on “Ethics Engagement and Communication Methods
For Institutional Investors and Good Corporate Governance.”
- Novo Nordisk. Executive education seminar on business ethics and
social responsibility methods.
- Eurobank. Executive education course on business ethics and social
responsibility methods.
- International Peace Research Institute,
- Arthur D. Little School of Management, taught Negotiating
course.
- First Call Corporation, helped plan consensus building effort
for developing standard in financial services industry.
- Gottlieb Duttweiler Institute,
- Arthur D. Little and
- GSX/Genstar. Conducted feasibility analysis of starting a new business unit for introducing new technology for
precision testing underground gasoline and chemical storage tanks.
- Academic program coordinator, six week summer
international management course for
international managers,
- National Commission For Cooperative Education,
- WGBH Educational
Foundation. Helped develop, build consensus internally and externally for strategy
and operations changes; helped develop problem solving versus adversary
approach to employee and labor relations. The Foundation holds the licenses for
and operates three television stations and one radio station.
- United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural
Organization. Research grant to study and report on how union contracts of
media professionals can influence free expression and choice in concentrated
market situations, and to study and report on trade patterns and possible
regulation of international trade in television programs, films, books, and
magazines.
- International Human Resources Development Corporation. Analyzed
the feasibility of renting and buying films, television programs, and music for
nonprofit in-house institution use in international waters and territories.
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- Miscellaneous consulting, research, and teaching with IBM,
Citicorp, the Social Sciences and
Humanities Research Council of Canada, Harvard University, Massachusetts
Institute of Technology, Albany International, and the University of
Pennsylvania.
Community Service
Society of Friends (Quakers) - Member, Wellesley Meeting; Friends World Committee For Consultation; Nominating Committee, New England Yearly Meeting; Clerk, Income Distribution Committee; Board of Managers of Investments and Property Funds, New England Yearly Meeting; Ministry and Counsel Committee, Wellesley Friends Meeting; Education Committee member and teacher, Wellesley Friends Meeting; Peace Education Committee, American Friends Service Committee, New England Region; Co-clerk, Central Illinois Area American Friends Service Committee.
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Education History
Ph.D., Management,
M.A., Business and Applied Economics, Wharton School of Finance and Commerce, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia., PA, 1969.
B.S., Economics
and Finance, Wharton