Virtue and virtuousness in organizations: Guidelines for ascribing individual and organizational moral responsibility

This article advances research on moral responsibility in organizations by drawing both philosophical virtue ethics grounded the Aristotelian tradition and Positive Organizational Scholarship concerned with virtuousness. The discusses very conditions that make possible realization of virtues virtuousness, respectively. These ground notions resulting praise or blame organizational contexts. Thus, we analyze way individuals may be ascribed interconnected degrees retrospective as depending interplay between individual leading to Based this analysis, develop a two-level account connects through concepts is further operationalized into practical guidelines ascribe blame, which can used tool managers, policymakers, industry regulators.