Biographical note

Dr. Archie B. Carroll is the Robert W. Scherer Chair of Management and Corporate Public Affairs, emeritus, and professor of management emeritus in the Terry College of Business, University of Georgia. He also served as part-time director of the Nonprofit Management and Community Service Program in the Terry College. Dr. Carroll received his undergraduate, master's and doctorate degrees from the Florida State University in Tallahassee. He is the co-author of CORPORATE RESPONSIBILITY: THE AMERICAN EXPERIENCE (Cambridge University Press, 2012), which won the Academy of Management, Social Issues in Management (SIM), Book of the Year in 2014. He was recognized in 2012 with the first Lifetime Achievement Award in Corporate Social Responsibility given by the Institute of Management, Humboldt University, Berlin, Germany. Dr. Carroll has published numerous books, chapters, articles and encyclopedia entries. His research has appeared in numerous professional journals, including the Academy of Management Journal, Academy of Management Review, Business and Society, Journal of Management, Business Ethics Quarterly, Journal of Business Ethics, Business Ethics: A European Review. He has served on the editorial review boards of Business and Society, Business Ethics Quarterly, Academy of Management Review, Journal of Management and the Journal of Public Affairs. Professionally, he is former division chair of the Social Issues in Management (SIM) Division of the Academy of Management, a founding board member and fellow of the International Association for Business and Society (IABS) and past president of the Society for Business Ethics. He was elected fellow of the Southern Management Association in 1995 and fellow of the Academy of Management in 2005. Dr. Jill Brown is the Hieken Professor of Business Ethics and professor of management at Bentley University. She also serves as a faculty fellow for Bentley’s Hoffman Center for Business Ethics. She received her Ph.D. at the University of Georgia. Dr. Brown's research and teaching interests include ethics, corporate social responsibility, corporate governance and strategic leadership -- with a focus on understanding how businesses can create both financial and social value. Dr. Brown’s work has been published in the Journal of Business Ethics, Business & Society, Organization Science, Business Ethics Quarterly, the Journal of Management Studies, the Oxford Handbook of Corporate Social Responsibility, Strategic Organization and Corporate Governance: An International Review. She serves as co-editor of the Business & Society journal, which is a journal dedicated to examining social issues at the intersection of business and society. Dr. Brown served for several years as section editor of the "Teaching Business Ethics" section of the Journal of Business Ethics. She is currently an associate editor for Corporate Governance: An International Review and serves on the editorial review board of Business and Society. Dr. Brown has served in many leadership capacities for the SIM (Social Issues in Management) Division at the Academy of Management, including program chair and division chair. During her term as division chair, she established several new committees to address contemporary issues, including the SIM Racial Justice and Communications Committees. She is a former representative-at-large of the International Association of Business and Society (IABS), an international organization committed to understanding relationships between business, government and society.