Ron Beadle

Professor Ron Beadle

Professor

Department: Newcastle Business School

Professor Ron Beadle is a Professor of Organization and Business Ethics. He has been widely published in the field of virtue ethics in business and regularly invited to lecture in universities across the UK and internationally. The main focus of Ron's empirical work is the travelling circus. In addition to ethics Ron has taught and published across a wide range of subjects including HRM, organization theory / behaviour and reward management. Ron is an experienced Doctoral Supervisor and is keen to discuss research proposals involving ethics in business and organizations.

Beyond the University Ron has been a local Councillor in Gateshead since 1996 and is a regular columnist for 'The Journal' newspaper.

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Research Themes and Scholarly Interests

Virtue Ethics, Organizations, Circus.

Key Publications

It’s a Three-Ring Circus: How Morally Educative Practices Are Undermined by Institutions, Beadle, R., Sinnicks, M. 1 Jan 2025, In: Business Ethics Quarterly
‘Whose Call?’ The Conflict Between Tradition-Based and Expressivist Accounts of Calling, Wightman, S., Potts, G., Beadle, R. 1 Apr 2023, In: Journal of Business Ethics
Book Review: The Cambridge Companion to the Circus by Gillian Arrighi and Jim Davis, Beadle, R. 1 May 2022, In: Nineteenth Century Theatre and Film
Trade Unions and the 2016 UK European Union Referendum, Fitzgerald, I., Beadle, R., Rowan, K. 1 Feb 2022, In: Economic and Industrial Democracy
Can Finance Be a Virtuous Practice? A MacIntyrean Account, Rocchi, M., Ferrero, I., Beadle, R. 1 Jan 2021, In: Business Ethics Quarterly
Corporate philanthropy as a context for moral agency, a MacIntyrean enquiry, Nicholson, H., Beadle, R., Slack, R. 1 Dec 2020, In: Journal of Business Ethics
Local virtues The case of the circus, Beadle, R., Robson, A. 5 Nov 2020, Virtues and Virtue Education in Theory and Practice, Taylor & Francis
Institutions and moral agency: the case of Scottish Banking, Robson, A., Beadle, R. 1 Oct 2019, In: Journal of Institutional Economics
Work, Meaning and Virtue, Beadle, R. 15 Jan 2019, Oxford Handbook of Meaningful Work, Oxford University Press
MacIntyre on virtue and organization, Beadle, R., Moore, G. 15 Mar 2018, Virtue Ethics, Abingdon & New York, Taylor & Francis

Qualifications

Management PhD October 30 2008
Industrial Relations MSc November 15 1989
Politics BSc (Hons) August 01 1987
Chartered Fellow (FCIPD) Chartered Institute of Personnel & Development (CIPD) 2014

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