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Dr. William S. Brown
Assistant Professor of Management
Bio
Prior to becoming an academic, Dr. Brown held high level HR positions in the World Headquarters of Fortune listed companies such as The Prudential Insurance Company of America, Philip Morris, Inc. and Mutual of New York (MONY). He also has been Director of Human Resources at Barnard College, Columbia University, and Fairleigh Dickinson University as well as holding high level HR positions for the city of Pittsburgh.
Education
PhD, University of Pittsburgh
BA, MBA, Fairleigh Dickinson University
MA, Montclair State University
Research Interests / Areas of Study
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.
Selected Publications
"The Impact of Stress Levels on Ethicality for Employees," Journal of Applied Business and Economics, (2022) 24(6): 95-113. (co-authored with Pamela J. Harper, John C. Cary, and Pablo Rivas).
"Ethics and the Dampening Effects of Pressure: The Moderating Role of Employment Level, Employment tenure, and Company Size," Journal of Organizational Psychology (2022) 22(2): 148-171. (co-authored with Pamela J. Harper, John C. Cary, and Pablo Rivas).
"Strategic Human Resource Management for Competitive Advantage," Hudson Valley Manufacturing magazine (April 2021): 23-24.
"Ethics Under Pressure: A Study of the Effects of Gender, Religiosity, and Income Under the Perception of Pressure," Journal of Leadership, Accountability, and Ethics (2019) 16(3): 42-62. (co-authored with Pamela J. Harper, John C. Cary, and Pablo Rivas).
"Socially Responsible Entrepreneurship as Innovative Human Resource Practice," Journal of Applied Behavioral Science (2018) 54(1): 1-16.
"The World of Work in the 21st Century: Security to Ubiquitous Risk" in C. Kenneth Meyer et al (eds.) Managing People as Assets, Des Moines, IA (2011) forthcoming.
"The Analysis and Understanding of Case Studies" in C. Kenneth Meyer et al (eds.)Managing People as Assets, Des Moines, IA (2011) forthcoming.
"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.
"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 Workplace 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.
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.
Selected Presentations
“Consumer Privacy Expectations and the Impact on Buying Behavior,” NorthEast Decision Sciences Institute, Boston, MA, April 6-8, 2024. (co-authored with John C. Cary, Edward Linde III, and Pamela Harper).
“An Exploration of Consumer Privacy Preferences and the Impact on Buying Behavior,” International Vincentian Business Ethics Conference, St. John’s University, New York, New York, October 20-22, 2022. (co-authored with Pamela J. Harper, John C. Cary, and Edward L. Linde II).
“The Impact of Stress Levels on Ethicality for Employees,” Managing the Digital Transformation of Society Conference, Lyon, France, June 7-11, 2022. (Co-authored with Pamela J. Harper, John C. Cary, and Pablo Rivas).
“An Examination of the Effect of Stress on the Employment-Ethics Relationship,” Midwest Academy of Management, Davenport, Iowa, October 14-16, 2021. (Co-authored with Pamela J. Harper, John C. Cary, and Pablo Rivas).
“A Study of the Relationship Between Employment Attributes, Ethics, and the Dampening Effect of Pressure,” 50th Northeast Decision Science Institute Conference, Virtual Presentation, March 26, 2021. (Co-authored with Pamela J. Harper, John C. Cary, and Pablo Rivas).
“Corporate Social Performance: Just or Unjust?” Explorations in Social Justice Conference, Marist College, Poughkeepsie, New York, September 13, 2019. (Co-authored with Pamela J. Harper, John C. Cary, and Pablo Rivas).
“ML-Based Feature Importance Estimation for Predicting Unethical Behaviour Under Pressure,” 36th International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML), June 2018, Long Beach, California. (Co-authored with Pablo Rivas, Pamela J. Harper, and John C. Cary).
“Ethics Under Pressure: A Study of Gender, Religiosity, and Income Under the Perception of Pressure,” 25th Annual Vincentian Business Ethics Conference, St. John’s University, October 27, 2018, New York, New York. (Co-authored with Pamela J. Harper, John C. Cary, and Pablo Rivas).
“Ethics Under Pressure,” 2nd Annual Susilo Symposium on Ethics in a Global Economy, Susilo Institute, Questrom School of Buisness, Boston University, Boston, Massachusetts, June 15, 2017. (Co-authored with Pamela J. Harper, John C. Cary, and Pablo Rivas).
“Ethics Under Pressure: A Study of Undergraduate Perceptions and Behaviors,” 22nd Annual Vincentian Business Ethics Conference, St. John’s University, October 22, 2015, New York, New York. (Co-authored with Pamela J. Harper, John C. Cary, and Pablo Rivas).
“Socially Responsible Entrepreneurship as Innovative Human Resource Practice,” Best Applied Paper Award at the 14th International Association of Management and Business, San Antonio, Texas, January 21-23, 2013.
“Socially Responsible Entrepreneurship and Sustainability,” Eighteenth International Conference Promoting Business Ethics, October 26-28, 2011, St. John’s University, New York, New York.
“Entrepreneurship, Social Responsibility, and Ethics: A Theoretical Perspective,” Paper presented at the Sixteenth Annual International Conference Promoting Business Ethics, October 29-31, 2009, Niagara Falls, New York
“Socially Responsible Entrepreneurship: A Theoretical Approach and a Practical Example,” Paper presented at the Fifteenth Annual International Conference Promoting Business Ethics, October 22-24, 2008, New York, NewYork.
“The Confluence of Managerial Hegemony and Information Technology: Risk, Fear and Uncertainty in the Late Modern/Early Post-Modern Organization,” Paper presented at Fourteenth Annual International Conference Promoting Business Ethics, November 1-3, 2007, Chicago, Illinois.
“Authenticity, Technology, and Early Post-Modern Commerce,” Paper presented at the Twelfth International Conference Promoting Business Ethics, October 26-28, 2005, New York, New York.
“Risk, Dependence, and Shame: Operant Values in the Post-Modern Work World,” Paper presented at the Eighth International Conference of the American Society for Business and Behavioral Sciences, August 5-6, 2005, Bankside House, London School of Economics and Political Science, London, UK.
“Considerations from Theoretical Physics for Imbuing Ethics All the Way Through Organizations,” Paper presented at the Eleventh International Business Ethics Conference, October 21-24, 2004, Chicago, Illinois.
“The New Employment Contract and the ‘At Risk’ Worker,” Paper presented at the Tenth Annual International Conference Promoting Business Ethics, October 22-24, 2003, Garden City, New York.
“Workplace Privacy in the Post-September 11 Environment,” Paper presented at the Ninth International Conference Promoting Business Ethics, October 23-25, 2002, Niagara Falls, New York
“Workplace Privacy and the Electronic Village Green,” Paper presented at the Eighth International Conference Promoting Business Ethics, October 24-26, 2001, Chicago.
“Laborem Exercens, Human Dignity, and Technological Control in the Workplace,” Paper presented at the conference Work as the Key to the Social Question, September 12-15, 2001, held at the Aula Magna Policlinico Gemelli Catholic University, and at the Vatican, Rome, Italy.
“Ethics and the Business of Children’s Public Television Programming,” Paper presented at the Seventh International Conference Promoting Business Ethics, September 21-23, 2000, New York, New York.
“The Influence of Basque’s Mondragon Cooperatives on a New England Manufacturing Firm,” Paper presented at the First International Conference of the Iberoamerican Academy of Management, December 9-11, 1999, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Spain.
“Toward a Critical Theory of Workplace Privacy,” Paper presented at the Sixth Annual International Conference Promoting Business Ethics, October 21-23, 1999, Niagara Falls, Ontario, Canada.
“Managerial Learning and Post-Modernity: The Deconstructionism of Business School Integrated Curricula,” Paper presented at the conference: Re-Organizing Knowledge: Trans-forming Institutions, Knowing, Knowledge, and the University in the XXI Century, September 17-19, 1999, University of Massachusetts-Amherst, Amherst, Massachusetts.
“The Impact Upon Self of Technologically-Mediated Organizational Control,” Paper presented at the Fourth Annual Ethics and Technology Conference, June 4-5, 1999, Boston College, Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts.
“Educating for Global Citizenship: An International Perspective Combining Study, Student Life, and Experience,” Paper presented at the 51st Annual Conference of the council on International Educational Exchange, November 13-15, 1998, Boston, Massachusetts. Co-authored with Carolyn Hotchkiss, Katherine Platt, and William H. Coyle.
“Ontological Security, Existential Anxiety and Workplace Privacy,” Paper presented at the Fifth Annual International Conference Promoting Business Ethics, Chicago, October 29-31, 1998.
“Building Trust, Inclusivity and Community in a Learning Organisation,” Paper presented at the Professor’s Forum of the 27th Annual International Federation of Training and Development Organisations World Conference at Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland, July 20-24, 1998. Co-authored with Cecile Betit.
“Competency-Based Institutional Reform: The Development of External Competency Assessment at Babson College,” Paper presented at the 1997 Academy of Management Meeting, Boston, MA in August 1997. Co-authored with James M. Hunt, Steven J. Schiffman and Joseph R. Weintraub.
“Diagnosing Internal and External Organizational Environments Using a Wellness Framework,” Paper presented at the Second Biennial International Conference on Advances in Management, in Calgary, Alberta, Canada in June 1994. Co-authored with Craig S. Fleisher and Angela W. Fleisher. This paper won “Best Paper” designation.
“The Strategic Implications of Workplace Childcare: An International Perspective,” Paper presented at the International Association of Business and Society Meeting in Hilton Head, South Carolina in March 1994. Co-authored with Grace A. Gibbons.
“Moving from the Cross-National to the International in Business Ethics,” Paper presented at the International Association for Business and Society Meeting in San Diego, California, in March 1993. Co-authored with William Martello.
“Teaching Ethics in International Business,” Paper presented at the International Association for Business and Society Meeting in Leuven, Belgium, in June, 1992.
“Impact of Societal and Organizational Culture on Worker Commitment,” Paper presented at the Symposium on Human Resource Management in Developing Countries held at the Faculty of Management, McGill University, Montreal, Canada. Co-authored with Raghu Nath.
“Conflict Management as a Function of Shared Decision-making,” Paper presented at the 40th PASCD Conference, Hershey, PA, November 20, 1990.
“Competitive Compensation Strategies in High-Tech Firms: A Synthetic, Theoretical Perspective,” Paper presented at the Second Annual Conference on High Technology Management, Boulder, Colorado, January 11-13, 1990. Co-authored with Marick F. Masters and George Tokesky.
“Innovating Faculty Compensation: Salary Incentive Systems,” in The Unionized Professoriate: A Discriminating Appraisal, Proceedings of the Fourteenth Conference of the National Center for the Study of Collective Bargaining and the Professions New York, New York, 1986: 81-84.
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.