CV: Marvin Brown

Tuesday, August 10,  10:00 am
“The Rights and Responsibilities of Corporations in National Politics” Panel Discussion, with Georges Enderle and Sandra Waddock, Society of Business Ethics Annual Meeting, Montreal, Canada

Tuesday, September 7, 7:00 pm
Book Reading, Books Inc. in Berkeley, 1760 4th Street, Berkeley

Tuesday, September 23, 7:00 pm
Civilizing the Economy, Saybrook Dialogues, Saybrook University, 747 Front Street, 3rd Floor, San Francisco

Wednesday, September 29, 6:00 pm
Conversation on “Civilizing the Economy” University Press Books, 2430 Bancroft Way, Berkeley

Ocgtober 7 – 10 
“The Ethics of Property and Sustainability”
Interdisciplinary Approaches to Integrating Ethics and Sustainability
32nd Annual Association for Integrative Studies Conference
San Diego, CA 92106-3102

October 15-17
Book Signing, Bioneers, San Rafael, CA

October 29-31
“Capital, Credit, and CSR in Crisis: What Concepts, Systems, and Behavioral Criteria Are Needed for Future Wealth Creation?”
The Third International Conference on Business Ethics in Shanghai
Center for Business Ethics, Shanghai Academy of Social Sciences
Shanghai, China

November 8 – 10
The Global Summit, Fort Mason Center, San Francisco
www.theglobalsummit.org

Ph.D. Graduate Theological Union, Berkeley, CA, 1978
MD. Union Theological Seminary, New York, NY, 1969
BA. Nebraska Wesleyan University, Lincoln, NE, 1965

2010  Author meets Critics, American Philosophical Association Annual Meeting, April 4, San Francisco.

“Civilizing the Economy,” Association for Professional and Practical Ethics,

            March 2, Cincinnati, OH.

2009   “Economic Sectors vs. Systems of Provision.”  paper at the Global Forum on Business World Benefit, Cleveland, Ohio,

2008  “The Lie in the Wealth of Nations and its Legacy of Blind Optimism,”  presentation at the Annual meeting of the Association of Professional and Practical Ethics, San Antonio, Texas, Feb. 23           

 “Ethical Decision Making,” Bay Area Consortium of Social Workers, Berkeley, CA, May 8.

 
2007“What are Corporations Good For?” The Fourteenth Annual International Vincentian Business Ethics Conference, Chicago, Il November 3  

 “ A Civic Perspective of Corporate Social Responsibility,“ South Bay OD Conference, October 19

"Civic Imagination and Management Decisions," Society of Business Ethics meeting, Philadelphia, August 2007

"Business Ethics and Civil Society: A Contextual Approach," World Forum on China Studies, Shanghai, China, September 22, 2006

"Corporte Integrity and Public Interest: A Relational Approach to Business Ethics and Leadership, European Business Ethics Network, Bonn, Germany, September 24, 2005

"Running a Business on the Moon and Seven Other Exercises to Facilitate Systems Thinking," Society of Business Ethics Annual Meeting, Honolulu. Hawaii, August 6, 2005

"Corporate Integrity and Civic Responsibility," annual meeting of the Association of Professional and Applied Ethics, Feb. 21, 2005, San Antonio, TX

My research interests focus on the civic and environmental context for organizational integrity and decision-making, on the analysis of the different levels of public discourse that allows us to become aware of these and other contextual dimensions of organizations, and on interpretative frameworks for understanding ethics and economics.

My strongest background is in organizational and business ethics, hermeneutics and modern communication theory, and argumentative rhetoric.

My expertise may come in handy for students who wish to engage in a normative analysis of organizational issues or practices, or wish to know more about the multi-dimensional relationship between communication and conduct.

Research Expertise Rating Guide:

1. studied in a class or have read intensively on my own
2. special training in the form of a workshop or equivalent
3. taught a class in, or supervised research using this method (research practicum, on a dissertation or master's committee
4. used in research myself
5. published or presented at conferences my research using this method

Methods Traditionally Considered As Quantitative (But Need Not Be)

Methods That Could Use Quantitative Or Qualitative Methods

Methods Primarily Associated With Qualitative Research (But May Also Use Quantitative)

Types of Analysis