Denise Kleinrichert

• Doctor of Philosophy
• Professor (Full) at San Francisco State University - Lam Family College of Business

Empathy is a specific moral aspect of human behavior. The global workplace, and thereby a consideration of employee stakeholders, includes unique behavioral and ethical considerations, including a consideration of human empathy. Further, the human aspects of workplaces are within the domain of human resources and managerial oversight in business or...

While social ventures address inequities in health, education, climate resilience, and economic development, the broader cultural contexts that shape how ventures mobilise critical resources have been overlooked. We examine three aspects of societal culture-future orientation, humane orientation, and collectivism-and adopt a resource dependence len...

Social entrepreneurial ventures (SEVs) experience unique social and environmental issues that challenge their missions. Underlying supply chains may be misaligned with these missions. For example, small emerging firms typically outsource most of their production and distribution functions to supply chain partners, without much leverage. What aspect...

The authors investigated the impact of an undergraduate business and society course on students’ attitudes about the importance of corporate social responsibility (CSR) at a highly diverse, urban, Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business–accredited U.S. university. Students were surveyed for their attitudes about key areas of business...

The importance of women's entrepreneurial work and its socioeconomic context has ethical import as a theoretical concern. The entrepreneurial endeavor of women involves gendered ethical issues of equality, access, and capability for women seeking to develop private enterprise in many marketplaces. The practice of entrepreneurship marks a segregatio...

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to link consumer use of technology to two very popular themes in the hospitality industry: boutique hotels and environmental responsibility. Design/methodology/approach The case study focuses on how boutique hotels legitimize their green practices through the use of technology – web sites, social media – to com...

Ally-building can be an ethical pursuit in developing sources of power for the business manager. The commitment to social responsibility is a source of power, as well as an ethical practice for corporate endeavors. Pfeffer promotes a business manager’s ability to develop effectiveness with ties to powerful others in an intra-organizational environm...

This article comments on the book Managers Not MBAs: A Hard Look at the Soft Practice of Managing and Management Development, by Henry Mintzberg. Professor Mintzberg's latest effort regarding the development of corporate managers focuses on how contemporary Master of Business Administration (MBA) programs have both augmented and hurt the practice o...

Social well-being has been considered an institutional construct based on choices by economic and political concerns over how to alleviate disparities in production, distribution, and consumption of goods and services. These choices may be based on moral, as well as economic, concerns. This seems to imply a sense of responsibility which may, but no...

This treatise presents a transcendental argument for corporate social responsibility. The argument is that corporate social responsibility, or CSR, is best understood as a collective moral practice that is a precondition for sustainable business. There are a number of theories and definitions of CSR in the contemporary business literature. These th...