Antonio Argandoña
professor
Economics and Business Ethics
IESE Business School Universidad de Navarra
Spain
Biography
Antonio Argandoña is Emeritus Professor of Economics and holder of the CaixaBank Chair of Corporate Social Responsibility and Corporate Governance at IESE. He teaches mainly in the areas of macroeconomics, monetary economics and international economics, and publishes research on business ethics, corporate social responsibility and organizational governance. An economist by training, Antonio Argandoña received his Ph.D. in Economics and Management (summa cum laude) from the University of Barcelona in 1969. He is a member of Spain's Royal Academy of Economics and Finance (1999). Antonio Argandoña is a member of the Advisory Board of the Catalan Finance Institute (ICF), chairman of the Professional Standards and Ethics Committee of the Economists Association of Catalonia, member of the Commission on Corporate Social Responsibility and Anti-Corruption of the Paris International Chamber of Commerce, member of the Arbitration Tribunal of Catalonia (TATC), and member of the Ethical Standards Committee of AENOR. He also serves on the ethics committees of various financial institutions, business associations and media, as well as on the editorial boards of Journal of Business Ethics, Business Ethics: A European Review, and Journal of International Business Education, among other scientific publications. In addition, he is director of IESE Insight and IESE Alumni Magazine. His research activity was recognized in 2008 by the European Academy of Business in Society (EABIS) and the Aspen Institute for Business in Society, which granted him the Life Achievement Award for his fruitful career. He has also been acknowledged as the world's third most prominent author in business ethics and CSR between 1999 and 2008 (K.C. Chan, H-G. Fung and J. Yan, "Business ethics research: a global perspective", Journal of Business Ethics, 2009). In 2008, the Financial Studies Institute (IEF) awarded him the Prize for outstanding personal achievement in financial education. He has published numerous books and articles on macroeconomics, monetary economics, the Spanish and international economy, business ethics and corporate social responsibility.
Research Interest
Areas of Interest * Economics for management * Macroeconomics and monetary economics * International economics * Economic and business ethics * Corporate social responsibility
Publications
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Why should a manager be ethical? How can you get it? How can you overcome the difficulties that arise in your task? These are questions that are formulated by managers and entrepreneurs, and that should occupy the main attention of the academics, professors, researchers and consultants that we dedicate ourselves to the ethics in the company. In this work we try to answer these questions, from the point of view of the ethics of virtues.
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Although virtues have gained a firm presence in the theory and practice of corporate management, humility is not ranked as one the chief virtues in the business world. In spite of this, it is an important virtue, contributing to the manager's moral and professional quality and the development of the company's human team. This paper explains the basic traits of humility in general and how they manifest in the manager's life and profession, and shows, within the ethics of virtues, that it is not just a personal desideratum but a fundamental quality of a good manager and good management.
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Social Responsibility (SR) in the field of health care can learn a lot from the evolution of the concept of Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR). The R for Responsibility was originally an ethical concept that, when looking at the past, addresses actions' consequences and, when looking at the future, addresses the responsibility for what is going to be done or must be done; it is, therefore, a good guide for understanding SR. The S for Social also started out as a moral concept in interpersonal relationships; it later attributed an active role to society, whose demands identify situations that give rise to rights that create responsibilities. Starting from the basic ideas about what is involved in managing an organization, this paper identifies what can motivate an organization to act in a socially responsible manner: SR, understood as an ethical responsibility, grounded on virtue ethics, leads to management excellence.
