Biographical note

Jacob Dahl Rendtorff, (born 1965), Ph.D. and Dr. Scient. Adm. (Doctor Scientiarum Administrationis), is professor of philosophy of management and head of the Research Group on Management and Organization in the Department of Social Sciences and Business, Roskilde University, Denmark. Rendtorff has a background in research in ethics, bioethics and biolaw, business ethics, philosophy of management, political theory, and philosophy of law. Rendtorff has also been doing research in phenomenology and hermeneutics, continental French and German philosophy. He is educated in philosophy and political sciences in Copenhagen, Paris, and Berlin, and he has been visiting professor in many universities (Utrecht, Rome, Freiburg, Boston, Stanford, Santa Clara, Louvain, Shanghai, Besançon, Paris, Oslo, and Tübingen). He has held more than 200 international lectures and presentations at different universities and conferences around the world. His research on philosophy of management, business ethics, stakeholder theory, and corporate social responsibility has been published in international journals and books. Rendtorff is member of the editorial board of Society and Business Review. Moreover, Rendtorff is coeditor of the Springer Series Ethical Economy: Studies in Economic Ethics and Philosophy. He is also associate editor of Social Responsibility Journal and European editor of Journal of Business Ethics Education. Rendtorff’s most important international books are Basic Ethical Principles in European Bioethics and Biolaw, Center for Ethics and Law 2000; Responsibility, Ethics and Legitimacy of Corporations, Copenhagen Business School Press 2009; French Philosophy and Social Theory: A Perspective for Ethics and Philosophy of Management, Springer International Publishers 2014; Stakeholder Theory: A Model for Strategic Management, Sprinter International Publishers 2016; Cosmopolitan Business Ethics: Towards a Global Ethos of Management, Routledge 2017; Sustainability and Philosophy of Management: Rethinking Business Ethics and Corporate Social Responsibility in Sustainable Development, Emerald 2019; Moral Blindness in Business: A Social Theory of Evil in Organizations and Institutions, PalgraveMacmillan 2020. Rendtorff is currently a member of the board of the Danish Philosophical Forum and is president of the Danish Association for philosophy in French language. He takes also part of the international group on reflection group Eco-ethica about ethics and responsibility in a global world. Rendtorff is a member of the EXCOM, which is the board of EBEN (European Business Ethics Network) and elected to the Steering Committee of FISP (International Federation of Philosophical Societies). Presently, his research interests are business legitimacy, philosophy of management, stakeholder theory, corporate social responsibility, sustainability, and cosmopolitan business ethics.