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George G Brenkert

George G. Brenkert is an American academic, a philosopher, and an expert in business ethics and social and political philosophy.

He is a professor emeritus at Georgetown University in the McDonough School of Business. During his tenure as Professor of Business Ethics at Georgetown he served as Director of the Business Ethics Institute within the McDonough School of Business. Prior to his tenure at Georgetown, Brenkert was a Professor in the Department of Philosophy at the University of Tennessee where he also served as Head of the department for seven years.

History edit

Active since the early 1970s in the field of business ethics and social and political philosophy, Brenkert has served as President of the Society for Business Ethics as well as the Editor-in-Chief of the Business Ethics Quarterly, the top business ethics journal in the US and abroad. His publications include five books and dozens of peer-reviewed journal articles.

Brenkert is a co-founder of two associations: Capital Area Business Ethics Network, an association of ethics and compliance officers in the Washington DC area, and the Transatlantic Business Ethics Conference, which brings a small select group of scholars from Europe and North America together every two years to discuss their latest work in the area of business ethics.

Acknowledgements for his achievements include the Presidential Award for Outstanding Scholarly Research[1] in the Field of Business Ethics from the Society for Business awarded in 2020. In 2013 he received the Society for Business Ethics award recognizing him for a Career of Outstanding Service to the Field of Business Ethics.

Awards edit

1964-1965 Fulbright Teaching Assistantship to India
1965-1966 Fulbright student grant to India
1978-1979 Alexander von Humboldt Fellowship (Germany)
2020 Presidential Award for Scholarly Achievement (Society for Business Ethics)[2]

Affiliations edit

2002-2009 Executive Committee - Association for Practical and Professional Ethics
2002-2008 Academic Fellow - Ethics Resource Center   
1999-2000 President - Society for Business Ethics[3]
1997-2002 Executive Committee - Society for Business Ethics

Service and Leadership edit

Director Georgetown Business Ethics Institute
Director Connelly Program in Business Ethics
Editor-in-Chief Business Ethics Quarterly
President Society of Business Ethics
Executive Committee Association for Practical and Professional Ethics
Department Chair Department of Philosophy, University of Tennessee
Co-founder Capital Area Business Ethics Network (CABEN)
Co-founder Transatlantic Business Ethics Conference (TABEC)

Education edit

University of Michigan Ph.D. 1971
Dissertation: Wants, Prudence, and Morality
University of Michigan   M.A. 1969
Colgate University B.A. 1964

Academic Career edit

2010 - Present Professor Emeritus of Business Ethics[4]
McDonough School of Business, Georgetown University
1997 – 2010 Professor of Business Ethics
Director of Georgetown Business Ethics Institute, Georgetown University
1988 – 1995 Professor and Head of Department
Department of Philosophy, University of Tennessee
1984 -  1998 Associate Professor
Department of Philosophy, University of Tennessee
1973 – 1977 Assistant Professor
Department of Philosophy, University of Tennessee
1972 - 1973 Assistant Professor
University of Minnesota - Duluth
1971 – 1972 Instructor
University of Minnesota - Duluth

Books edit

2010 Oxford Handbook of Business Ethics[5] (Ed., with T. Beauchamp, Oxford University Press)
2008    Marketing Ethics (Wiley-Blackwell)[6]
2004    Corporate Integrity and Accountability (Ed., Sage Publications)[7]
1991    Political Freedom (1st ed.) [8](Routledge
1983    Marx's Ethics of Freedom (1st ed.) (Routledge)[9]

Publications Portals edit

Research Gate - George G Brenkert[10]

Google Scholar - George G Brenkert[11]

References edit

  1. ^ Group, Bultema (2020-08-19). "2020 Presidential Award for Scholarly Achievement: George Brenkert". Society for Business Ethics. Retrieved 2023-11-23.
  2. ^ "2020 Annual Conference". Society for Business Ethics. Retrieved 2023-12-10.
  3. ^ "Former Officers". Society for Business Ethics. Retrieved 2023-12-10.
  4. ^ "Georgetown University Faculty Directory". gufaculty360.georgetown.edu. Retrieved 2023-11-23.
  5. ^ Brenkert, George (2012-04-01). "The Oxford Handbook of Business Ethics". global.oup.com. ISBN 9780199916221. Retrieved 2023-11-23.
  6. ^ Brenkert, George G. (2008). Marketing Ethics. Blackwell.
  7. ^ Brenkert, George G. (2004-06-30). Corporate Integrity and Accountability. SAGE Publications. ISBN 978-1-4522-6225-3.
  8. ^ Brenkert, George G. (2002-01-04). Political Freedom. London: Routledge. doi:10.4324/9780203004630/political-freedom-george-brenkert. ISBN 978-0-203-00463-0.
  9. ^ Brenkert, George G. (2013). Marx's Ethics of Freedom. doi:10.4324/9780203707784. ISBN 9781135025786.
  10. ^ "Research Gate". researchgate.net. Retrieved 2021-11-23.
  11. ^ "Google Scholar". scholar.google.com. Retrieved 2023-11-23.