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Sareh Pouryousefi

Dr. Sareh Pouryousefi

Assistant Professor
DepartmentLaw and business
EducationBA, MA, Ph.D

Overview

Sareh Pouryousefi is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Law & Business at the Ted Rogers School of Management (TRSM), Toronto Metropolitan University. She completed her PhD at the Department of Philosophy, University of Toronto. Prior to TRSM, she was a business school faculty member at the University of Nottingham (UK). She was also a visiting scholar at the Schulich School of Business, York University, and at the Olsson Centre for Applied Ethics in the Darden School of Business, University of Virginia. Her research focuses on the normative foundations of business ethics and she carries out this work in close engagement with empirical, social scientific research. 

She has published articles in journals such as Business Ethics QuarterlyJournal of Business Ethics, and Journal of the American Philosophical Association. She is a reviewer for academic journals and conferences in her field and serves on the Editorial Review Board at Business Ethics Quarterly, where she is currently a co-editor of a Special Issue on normativity. She has served as an organizer and mentor at meetings of the Society for Business Ethics, the European Business Ethics Network, and the Canadian Business Ethics Research Network. In light of her research excellence and service to the profession, Dr Pouryousefi received a TRSM Research Recognition Award in 2022. Her current writing projects are about trust and the professions.

Dr. Pouryousefi has taught courses in business ethics, critical thinking, healthcare ethics and management, public administration ethics, organizational behaviour, and corporate social responsibility. She has advised Undergraduate, MBA, and MSc student dissertations, and supervised PhD students to completion. Dr. Pouryousefi’s teaching was recognized when she received school-level and university-level awards for her teaching at the University of Toronto and the University of Nottingham.

Peer-reviewed articles
2023  Pouryousefi, S. Ethics for Capitalists: A Systematic Approach to Business Ethics, Competition, and Market Failure, by Joseph Heath. Altona, MB: FriesenPress, 2023. 276 pp. Business Ethics Quarterly (Forthcoming)
2022  Pouryousefi, S., Tallant, J. Empirical and philosophical reflections on trust in groups. Journal of the American Philosophical Association, pp. 1-21
2021  Pouryousefi, S., Freeman, R. E. The promise of pragmatism. Business Ethics Quarterly, 31(4), pp.572-599
2020  Slager, R., Pouryousefi, S., Moon, J. and Schoolman, E.D. Sustainability centres and fit: how centres work to integrate sustainability within business schools. Journal of Business Ethics, 161(2), pp. 375-391
2019  Painter, M., Pouryousefi, S., Hibbert, S. and Russon, J.A. Sharing vocabularies: towards horizontal alignment of values-driven business functions. Journal of Business Ethics, 155(4), pp. 965-979
2019  Pouryousefi, S. and Frooman, J. The consumer scam: an agency-theoretic approach. Journal of Business Ethics, 154(1), pp.1-12
2017  Pouryousefi, S. and Frooman, J. The problem of unilateralism in agency theory: towards a bilateral formulation. Business Ethics Quarterly, 27(2), pp.163-182
2014  Pouryousefi, S. The Economist’s Oath: On the Need for and Content of Professional Economic Ethics, by George F. DeMartino. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2011. Business Ethics Quarterly, 24(2), pp.283-287