
Professor Geoff Moore, BA, MSc
Professor of Business Ethics
Telephone: +44 (0) 191 33 45549
Fax: +44 (0) 191 33 45201
Room number: 510 Mill Hill Lane
Contact (email at geoff.moore@durham.ac.uk)
Biography
Geoff teaches business ethics and corporate responsibility to undergraduate and postgraduate students as well as research ethics to DBA students. His areas of interest include business ethics/corporate social responsibility and Fair Trade.Geoff is a founding member of the UK Association of European Business Ethics Network (EBEN-UK) and was Chair from 2002 to 2004. As well as a being a member of the European Business Ethics Network, Geoff is also a member of the Society for Business Ethics (USA) and of the International Society of Business, Economics and Ethics (ISBEE) where he is a member of the Executive Committee. He is a member of the Editorial Boards of Business Ethics Quarterly, Journal of Business Ethics, and Business Ethics: A European Review.
Geoff’s research and scholarly activity is mostly in the areas of corporate social responsibility / business ethics with contributions in the areas of corporate philanthropy, corporate social disclosure, stakeholder theory, corporate moral agency, modern virtue ethics, corporate social versus financial performance and Fair Trade. Current particular areas of interest are in the application of philosopher Alasdair MacIntyre’s approach to virtue ethics and its application to business, and in the Fair Trade movement.
Research Groups
Research Interests
- Business ethics
- Corporate social responsibility
Selected Publications
Journal papers: academic
- Moore, G., Slack, R. & Gibbon, J. 2009. Criteria for Responsible Business Practice in SMEs: An exploratory case of U.K. Fair Trade Organisations. Journal of Business Ethics forthcoming. (Additional information)
- Moore, G. 2008. Re-imagining the morality of management: a modern virtue ethics approach. Business Ethics Quarterly 18(4): 483-511. (Additional information) (View publication online)
- Campbell, D., Moore, G. & Shrives, P. 2006. Cross-sectional effects in community disclosures. Accounting, Auditing & Accountability Journal 19(1): 96-114. (Additional information) (View publication online)
- Moore, G. & Beadle, R. 2006. In search of organizational virtue in business: agents, goods, practices, institutions and environments. Organization Studies 27(3): 369-389. (Additional information) (View publication online)
- Beadle, R. & Moore, G. 2006. MacIntyre on virtue and organization. Organization Studies 27(3): 323-340. (Additional information) (View publication online)
- Moore, G. 2006. Managing ethics in higher education: implementing a code or embedding virtue? Business Ethics: a European Review 15(4): 407-418. (Additional information) (View publication online)
- Moore, G., Gibbon, J. & Slack, R. 2006. The mainstreaming of Fair Trade: a macromarketing perspective. Journal of Strategic Marketing 14(4): 329-352. (Additional information) (View publication online)
- Moore, G. 2005. Corporate character: modern virtue ethics and the virtuous corporation. Business Ethics Quarterly 15(4): 659-685. (Additional information) (View publication online)
- Moore, G. 2005. Humanizing business: a modern virtue ethics approach. Business Ethics Quarterly 15(2): 237-255. (Additional information) (View publication online)
- Moore, G. 2004. Regulatory perspectives on business ethics in the curriculum. Journal of Business Ethics 54(4): 349-356. (Additional information) (View publication online)
- Moore, G. 2004. The Fair Trade movement: parameters, issues and future research. Journal of Business Ethics 53(1-2): 73-86. (Additional information)
- Campbell, D., Moore, G. & Metzger, M. 2002. Corporate philanthropy in the U.K. 1985-2000: some empirical findings. Journal of Business Ethics 39(1-2): 29-41. (Additional information)
- Moore, G. 2002. On the implications of the practice-institution distinction: MacIntyre and the application of modern virtue ethics to business. Business Ethics Quarterly 12(1): 19-32. (Additional information) (View publication online)
- Moore, G. 2001. Corporate social and financial performance: an investigation in the UK supermarket industry. Journal of Business Ethics 34(3/4): 299-315. (Additional information)
Media Contacts
Available for media contact about:
- Business ethics: Corporate Social Responsibility

