caa a22 4500 605483558 CHVBK 20210128100431.0 cr unu---uuuuu 210128e20150901xx s 000 0 eng 10.1007/s10551-014-2267-8 doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.1007/s10551-014-2267-8 When Not Knowing is a Virtue: A Business Ethics Perspective [Elektronische Daten] [Joanna Crossman, Vijayta Doshi] How leaders and managers respond to not knowing is highly relevant given the complex, ambiguous, and chaotic business environment of the twenty-first century. Drawing on the literature from a variety of disciplines, the paper explores the dominant, unfavorable conceptualization of not knowing. The authors present some potential ethical implications of a negative view of not knowing and suggest how organizations would benefit from identifying any unhelpful aspects of the culture that may encourage unethical, undesirable, and/or hasty actions in situations of not knowing. The paper specifically illustrates how patience, courage, honesty, integrity, and humility are integral to negative capability in the contexts of not knowing. Finally, the paper calls for deeper inquiry into the role of virtue ethics in preparing managers and leaders for not knowing and urges organizations to embrace negative capability in not knowing rather than engaging in damaging delusion. Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht, 2014 Not knowing nationallicence Virtue ethics nationallicence Negative capability nationallicence Knowing nationallicence Crossman Joanna School of Management, University of South Australia, Adelaide, SA, Australia aut Doshi Vijayta Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad, India aut Journal of Business Ethics Springer Netherlands 131/1(2015-09-01), 1-8 0167-4544 131:1<1 2015 131 10551 https://doi.org/10.1007/s10551-014-2267-8 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 Metadata rights reserved Springer special CC-BY-NC licence nationallicence 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-springer NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1007/s10551-014-2267-8 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Crossman Joanna School of Management, University of South Australia, Adelaide, SA, Australia aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Doshi Vijayta Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad, India aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Journal of Business Ethics Springer Netherlands 131/1(2015-09-01), 1-8 0167-4544 131:1<1 2015 131 10551