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Professor Edward Wray-Bliss

Professor of Business Ethics

Staff Member Details
Email: e.wraybliss@ecu.edu.au
ORCID iD: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5575-7754

Edward has pursued an intense fascination with ethics - with the deepest values that make us who we are and with questions of how these sit in tension with our professional and organisational lives - over an academic career spanning more than 25 years. Since receiving his Doctorate from the University of Manchester in 1998, Edward has held academic positions at universities across Australia and the UK, including those of Macquarie University, Deakin University, University of Technology Sydney, Essex University, Nottingham University, Salford University, Stirling University, and Edge Hill University. He was appointed Professor of Business Ethics at Edith Cowan University in 2023, the first externally funded professorial position in this institution.

Edward’s research is published widely in leading international journals including OrganisationStudies, Journal of Business Ethics, Human Relations, Organisation Research Methods, and Organization, in discipline defining handbooks and edited research works, and in research monographs including his 2019 book Neoliberalism, Management and Religion (2019) published by Routledge.  Examining a broad range of issues, from modern slavery legislation to workplace sex discrimination, from leadership practice to the legacies of religion for business, from drug testing and drug and alcohol policy in the workplace to the ethics of academic research practices, and from evil and organisational practice to the intersections of love and capitalism, Edward’s research is defined by intellectual imagination and conceptual rigour.

When not working on academic projects Edward is also a sculptor and is currently exhibiting at Rex Livingston Gallery and Gallery H, NSW.

ECU Research Themes

Society and Culture:

  • Diverse, equitable, informed and productive communities, schools and workplaces
  • Individual, economic, organisational, political and social transformation

Research Areas and Interests
  • The ethics of leadership, organisation and management
  • Critical Business Ethics
  • Religion and organisation
  • Love and capitalism
  • Modern slavery
  • Workplace drug and alcohol policy and workforce drug testing.
  • Critical Management Studies
  • Philosophy, theology and organisation
  • Research ethics and the ethics of academic practices
  • Qualitative and emerging research methods

Qualifications

  • Doctor of Philosophy, The Victoria University of Manchester, 1998.
  • Bachelor of Science in Faculty of Technology, The Victoria University of Manchester, 1992.

Research Outputs

2024

Book Chapters

  • Michelson, G., Wray-Bliss, E. (2024). Overcoming Evil with Good: The Role of NGOs in Combating Modern Slavery. The Palgrave Handbook on Modern Slavery (663-677). Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-58614-9_32.

Journal Articles

  • Wray-Bliss, E., De Pater, I. (2024). Examining Love as a Central Ethic of Leadership: a Kierkegaardian and Feminist Reading. Journal of Business Ethics, 2024(Article in press), 12 pages. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10551-024-05867-w.

2021

Journal Articles

2019

Books

  • Wray-Bliss, E. (2019). Neoliberalism, Management and Religion: Re-examining the Spirits of Capitalism. Routledge.

Book Chapters

Journal Articles

Research Student Supervision

Current Supervisions

Principal Supervisor

  • Doctor of Philosophy, Decent Work and Human Sustainability: An Exploratory Study in Western Australia

Completed Supervisions

No data available
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