Sphere Mapping and Leadership in Business

Leadership in business has been a significant concern in management studies for decades. Our paper is an interdisciplinary attempt to contribute to the literature on business leadership. We bring together research from management studies, applied ethics and corporate responsibility to offer a preliminary approach to business leadership. This preliminary approach involves application of Martha Nussbaum’s concept of sphere mapping in business leadership. The yield of this approach is a shortlist of specific virtues—fairness, honesty, open-mindedness and non-malevolence—that we hold business leaders should adopt.