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| Name: | Dr. William S. Brown |
| Title: | Assistant Professor of Management |
| Office Location: | Dyson 374 |
| Extension: | (845) 575-3000 ext. 2059 |
| Email: | William.S.Brown@Marist.Edu |
| Degrees Held: | Ph. D., University of Pittsburgh; B.A., M.B.A., Fairleigh Dickinson University; M.A., Montclair State University; |
| Interests: | All aspects of human resource management/ organizational behavior with an emphasis on ethical conduct. Research/scholarship areas of interest include: technological control in the workplace and workplace privacy; modern/post-modern mass society influences on technological progress and its impact on self; business ethics in transitional economies. |
| Publications: | I have over 70 articles, book chapters, and conference papers dating back to 1981. Published articles since 1999 include: "Workplace Commitment: A Vestige of the Past in the New 'At Risk' Work Environment?" Business and Society Review (in press). "Corporate Ethics Initiatives as Change Management: Lessons from Chaos/Complexity Theory," The International Journal of Management Concepts and Philosophy (2008) 3(1):82-91. "The Case Study Method and the Changing Nature of Work," in C.Kenneth Meyer et al (eds.), Managing Public Service Organizations, Des Moines, IA: Millennium HRM Press(2006) pp.1-18. "The New Employment Contract and the 'At Risk' Worker," Journal of Business Ethics (2005) 58(1): 195-201. "Business Ethics in Transitional Economies: Introduction," Journal of Business Ethics (2003) 47(4): 295-297. "Ethics and the Business of Children's Public Television Programming," Teaching Business Ethics (2002) 6: 73-81. "Laborem Exercens, Human Dignity, and Technological Control in the Workplace," published online by the John A. Ryan Institute for Catholic Social Thought of the University of St. Thomas at: www.stthomas.edu/cathstudies/cst/mgmt/LE/papers/brown/htm. "The Providence Privateers" Case published in Wolff, S.B. and Wohlberg, J.W. (eds) OB in Action: Cases and Exercises, Boston: Houghton-Mifflin (2001): 379-380. "Providence Privateers Teaching Note" in Wolff, S.B. and Wohlberg, J.W. (eds.) Instructor's Resource Manual for OB in Action: Cases and Exercises, Boston: Houghton-Mifflin (2001: 274-275. "Ontological Security, Existential Anxiety, and Worlplace Privacy," Journal of Business Ethics (2000), 23(1): 61-65. "The Impact Upon Self of Technologically-Mediated Organizational Control," in Placencia, M.M. (ed) Privacy and the Constitution:Electronic Speech Rights, New York: Garland Publishing Company, Inc. (1999): 160-168. "William Carris: Servant Leader of the Carris Community of Companies," in Marquardt, M.J. (ed) Global Leaders for the 21st Century, Albany, NY: State University of New York Press (2000): 145-152. |
| Conferences & Workshops: | Conference papers since 1999 include: "Entrepreneurship, Social Responsibility, and Ethics: A Theoretical Perspective," 16th annual International Conference Promoting Business Ethics, Niagara Falls, NY, October 29-31, 2009. "Socially Responsible Entrepreneurship: A Theoretical Approach and a Practical Example," 15th annual International Conference Promoting Business Ethics, New York, NY, October 22-24, 2008. "The Confluence of Managerial Hegemony and Information Technology: Risk, Fear, and Uncertainty in the Late Modern/Early Post-Modern Organization," 14th annual International Conference Promoting Business Ethics, Chicago, IL, November 1-3, 2007. "Authenticity, Technology, and Early Post-modern Commerce," 12th annual International Conference Promoting Business Ethics, New York, NY, October 26-28, 2005. "Risk, Dependence, and Shame: Operant Values in the Post-Modern Work World," 8th International Conference of the American Society for Business and Behavioral Sciences, London School of Economics and Political Science, London, UK, August 5-6, 2005. "Considerations from Theoretical Physics for Imbuing Ethics All the Way Through Organizations," 11th annual International Conference for Promoting Business Ethics, Chicago, IL, October 21-24, 2004. "The New Employment Contract and the 'At Risk' Worker," 10th annual International Conference Promoting Business Ethics, New York, NY, October 22-24, 2003. "Workplace Privacy in the Post-September 11th Environment," 9th annual International Conference Promoting Business Ethics, Niagara Falls, NY, October 23-25, 2002. "Workplace Privacy and the Electronic Village Green," 8th annual International Conference Promoting Business Ethics, Chicago, IL, October 24-26, 2001. "Laborem Exercens, Human Dignity, and Technological Control in the Workplace," Work as Key to the Social Question, the Vatican and Aula Magna Policlinico Gemelli Catholic University, Rome, Italy, September 12-15, 2001. "Ethics and the Business of Children's Public Television Programming," 7th annual International Conference Promoting Business Ethics, New York, NY, September 21-23, 2000. "The Influence of Basque's Mondragon Cooperatives on a New England Manufacturing Firm," 1st Iberoamerican Academy of Management Meeting, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Madrid, Spain, December 9-11, 1999. "Toward a Critical Theory of Workplace Privacy," 6th annual International Conference Promoting Business Ethics, Niagara Falls, Ontario, Canada, October 21-23, 1999. "Managerial Learning and Post-Modernity," Re-Organizing Knowledge, Trans-forming Institutions, Knowing, Knowledge and the University in the XXI Century, University of Massachusetts-Amherst, Amherst, MA, September 17-19, 1999. "The Impact Upon Self of Technologically-Mediated Organizational Control," 14th annual Ethics and Technology Conference, Boston College, Chestnut Hill, MA, June 4-5, 1999. |
| Miscellaneous: | Professional Report: "Predicting Retirement" (2004), State of New York Department of Taxation and Finance. Co-authored with M.K. Johnson, Director of Personnel, NY State Dept. of Taxation & Finance; M.B. Kiyonaga, Director of Workforce and Occupational Planning, NY State Dept. of Civil Service; and S. Harrison, NY State Dept. of Taxation & Finance. Distributed throughout the NY State Civil Service System. |
