The Moral Entrepreneur: A New Component of Ethical Leadership

This research paper explores the concept of moral entrepreneurship as a new component of ethical leadership. It discusses the antecedents, outcomes, and moderators of moral entrepreneurship and its implications for management. The paper invites new empirical and normative research on the topic.

Ethical Leadership
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Definition of Ethical Leadership
Ethical leadership is also known as ethical leader behavior, leadership ethics,
moralized leadership, responsible leadership and responsible leadership
Scholars and researchers used many approaches to define the ethical
leadership
It has been found from the researches and studies that ethics has a place in the
core of the leadership

Supporters
 The definition of Brown et al. (2005) is widely used, as the definition is ethics-specific
 It clearly differentiates the two components of moral manager and moral person
 The definition is also flexible and justified by two studies
 It specifies the positive form of leadership as well as the ethical aspect of leadership

Criticisms
 The definition is only descriptive and vague, critical justification was missing
 The definition as well as the measurement of moral person and moral manager is
incomplete
 Some items used are not the proper characteristics of ethics
 The scale or measurement is also not multidimensional

New Component of Ethical Leadership
 The moral entrepreneurship is missing in the definition of Brown et al. (2005)
 A social development approach is also required, as it aims in the leadership direction which
need to be followed
 Studies on corporate social responsibility is also needed
 Proactive form of leadership is also discussed in the literatures which helps to differentiate
between management and leadership

The Moral Entrepreneur
 A moral entrepreneur builds a fresh ethical norm, according to the sociological literature
 Two kinds of moral entrepreneurs are identified and differentiated by Becker, between the new norms creator and
enforcer of these fresh norms
 The concept of moral entrepreneurship has been enforced to the hurdles faced by nongovernmental companies
 The concept of moral entrepreneurship has been enforced to the business field
 Moral entrepreneur is totally different from the social entrepreneur

Model of Modern Entrepreneurship
 20 prominent outcomes of ethical leadership are identified by Bedi et al. (2016)
 These outcomes can also be enforced to moral entrepreneurship studies
 Positive along with the negative outcomes of ethical leadership can be applied to moral entrepreneurship
 Moral entrepreneurship also introduced various outcomes and antecedents of ethical leadership

Antecedents
 The opportunity and projection for moral entrepreneurship varies with each other
 Opportunities and moral issues are directly proportional to each other
 Moral entrepreneurship depends on the addressing of the moral issues, whether in long term or short term
 Fresh ethical challenges were written by Carroll (2000) in order to upbringing of new businesses
 Urgency of moral issues aids to create moral entrepreneurship

Outcomes
 The concept of moral entrepreneurship engages other possible outcomes, apart from those present in ethical
leadership provided in the literature
 A new ethical norm is the feature of moral entrepreneurship, which contributes in the betterment of the
community
 It concludes that leaders can contribute to this betterment at a distinct level
 Moral entrepreneurship has a positive influence on the moral improvement of the community or society

Moderators
 It has been found that the three components of ethical leadership can complement each other
 There exist a relationship between the moderator role of the moral manager and moral person
 The components of the moral manager and the moral person can positively influence the outcomes of moral
entrepreneurship
 The impact of moral entrepreneurship is directly proportional to the to the moral improvement of the community

Discussion
 The moral entrepreneur is enforced in this research paper apart from moral person and moral manager
 The antecedents and outcomes of moral entrepreneurship has been explored in this research paper
 Moral improvement of the community and the trust of shareholders are the two fresh outcomes of moral
entrepreneurship

Research Implications
 New empirical and normative research has been invited by the concept of moral entrepreneurship
 The items represents the moral entrepreneurship in the settings of a business entity
 It includes both empirical and theoretical implications
 Future research also focuses on the normative operationalization of moral entrepreneurship

Implications for Management
 This research paper helps to appeal the managers to improve fresh ethical norms
 The ethics should be followed as well as leaded by management of the business corporations
 The outcomes need to be monitored in order to determination of the trust of shareholders and promotion of
the moral improvement of the society

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