An enormous growth of research in the field of organizational ethics in the last decade has highlighted issues such as the influence of ethical infrastructures and leadership on the behavior of individuals in organizational context. My research program addresses a major challenge in this research field: getting a better understanding of how individuals and groups detect, judge, and incorporate ethical issues into their decision-making processes.

 

Specifically, my research efforts are focused on:

 

• Interaction of individual and contextual factors of ethical decision-making.

• Power and ethics: Ethical problems in leaders’ decision-making processes.

• “Blind spots” in public policy decisions.

• Is there an “unethical personality”? The case for “black triad” and beyond.

• From theory to practice: nudging ethical decision-making in organizations.

• Ethical issues in goal-setting processes

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My research program is strongly embedded in DINAMIA’s scientific purpose of contributing to the design of the future in the realm of organizational life. In fact,  in reaction to recent corporate ethical scandals, nowadays dominant public expectations and pressures are that organizations should be accountable for the ethicality of their internal and external processes, including relations with all stakeholders. These expectations extend to the public services, leading people to ask for a higher level of transparency in decision processes affecting collective life.