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William C. Frederick

Professor Emeritus of Business Administration, Katz Graduate School of Business, University of Pittsburgh

1246 Murray Hill Avenue Pittsburgh, PA 15260 UNITED STATES Phone: 412-521-7752 billfred@katz.pitt.edu

William C. Frederick's professional career spans a half century, following doctoral studies in economics and anthropology at the University of Texas-Austin. His principal scholarly work has been teaching, research, and writing about the social and ethical dimensions of business corporations.

Much of his work has been devoted to multidisciplinary approaches employing economics, anthropology, socio-economics, moral development, philosophy, complexity science, and the natural sciences of evolutionary biology, physics, cognitive neuroscience, and evolutionary psychology. Reflecting these interests are his 1995 book Values, Nature, and Culture in the American Corporation; and his 2006 book Corporation, Be Good! The Story of Corporate Social Responsibility.

He coauthored five editions of Business and Society, a market-leading textbook. He was dean of the business schools at the University of Kansas City (now the University of Missouri at Kansas City) and the University of Pittsburgh. He has been president of The Society for Business Ethics, the Society for Advancement of Socio-Economics, and chair of the Social Issues in Management division of The Academy of Management.

Focus: Business, Education, Ethics, Jobs, United States, Americas

Link: http://www.williamcfrederick.com/

Related Resources:

• The Difference Makers (Commentary)
• Yes, Virginia, there is a Corporate Social Responsibility (Commentary)

Last Updated: Oct 02, 2008