Residency 2023
After a stint as a Fulbright scholar in Boston, USA, Professor Mollie Painter’ s career started with a joint appointment in the Department of Philosophy and the Business School at the University of Pretoria in South Africa. After moving to Chicago, USA, in 2003, she occupied a tenured professorship in Philosophy at De Paul University. After 10 years in the USA, she moved to the UK to take up the position of Professor of Ethics and Organisation at Nottingham Business School. Her most recent research focuses on sustainability, organizational culture, leadership, and ethics within complex organizational environments. As a philosopher by training, her trademark is bringing insights from 20th century and contemporary philosophy to management and organisational studies. Topics she has published include leadership and gender, relational accountability, critical perspectives on organisational ethics, and rethinking ethics pedagogies. In addition to Gender, Leadership & Organization (Springer, 2011, with Volume 2 forthcoming in 2021) , she has also authored Business Ethics as Practice ( Cambridge University Press, 2008 ) and Business Ethics and Continental Philosophy , co- edited with René ten Bos ( Cambridge University Press, 2011 ) , which has been translated into Dutch as ” Bedrijfsethiek. Filosofische perspectieven” (Boom, 2013).
