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Professional Overview

Bio: Professor Caroline Burns is a professor in the Leadership, Ethics, and Law Department in the School of Economics and Business Administration at Saint Mary's College of California. 

Courses Taught: 

• Business Ethics & Social Responsibility
• Ethical, Social, Political Issues
• Global Perspectives in Business and Society
• Business Strategy
• International Business
• Business as a Social Enterprise
• Seminar-Critical Strategies & Great Questions, First Year Advising Cohort
• Transfer Advising Cohort 

Research:

In progress

Longitudinal Study on Changing Student Values. See  for details. 

Under Review

Industry 4.0, Education 4.0 and Character-Based Education 

Semantic Profiling in Business Ethics Education

Peer Reviewed Papers

• Burns, C., Natale, S. M   (2020). Liberal and Vocational Education: The Gordian Encounter.  Education + Training, 62 (9), 1087-1099. DOI: 10.1108/ET-03-2020-0064 (lead author)

• Doran, C., Natale, S., Libertella, A. (2015). For Profit Education: The sleep of ethical reason.  Journal of Business Ethics, 126 (3), 415-421. DOI: 10.1007/s10551-013-1938-1 (lead author)

• Doran, C. and Littrell, R. F. (2013). Measuring Mainstream US Cultural Values. Journal of Business Ethics, 110 (3), 261-280. DOI: 10.1007/s10551-012-1515-z (lead author)

• Natale S. & Doran, C. (2012).  Marketization of Education: an Ethical Dilemma.  Journal of Business Ethics, 105 (2), 187-196.   DOI: 10.1007/s10551-011-0958-y  (Shared authorship)

• Doran, C. & Natale S. (2011). ἐμπάθεια (empatheia) or Caritas: The Role of Religion and Traditional Values in Fair Trade Consumption.  Journal of Business Ethics, 98 (1), 1-15. DOI: 10.1007/s10551-010-0533-y (lead author) 

• Doran, C. (2010).  Fair Trade Consumption: In Support of the Outgroup.  Journal of Business Ethics, 95 (4), 527-541. DOI: 10.1007/s10551-010-0437-x

• Doran, C. (2009).  The Role of Personal Values in Fair Trade Consumption.  Journal of Business Ethics, 84, 549-563.    DOI: 10.1007/s10551-008-9724-1

Chapters in Edited Books (editorial review)

• Burns, C. (2020). Academic integrity, axiology, and business ethics pedagogy. Integrity in Education for Future Happiness, pp. 19–34. Foltýnek, Hill, & Khan (Eds). ISBN 978-80-7509-771-2

• Natale, S., & Libertella, A., Doran, C.,   (2014). Empathic Leadership: A Plethora of Possibilities. In K. Pavlovich & K. Krahnke (Eds), Organizing through Empathy (93-111). Routledge Press, NY. ISBN 9781138339927(equal contributions by authors)

Encyclopedia Entries 

• Burns, C. (2020). Academic Integrity and Business Ethics Teaching. In Encyclopedia on Business and Professional Ethics: Poff, D .C. M., & Michalos, A. C. (Eds.) Springer International Publishing. DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-23514-1_1218-1

• Burns, C. (2018). Values Based Consumption. In Encyclopedia on Business and Professional Ethics: Poff, D .C. M., & Michalos, A. C. (Eds.) Springer International Publishing. DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-23514-1_75-1

• Burns C. (2018). Fair Trade Consumerism. In Encyclopedia on Business and Professional Ethics: Poff, D. C. M., & Michalos, A. C. (Eds.) Springer International Publishing. DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-23514-1_76-1

• Burns, C. (2018). Education and Wealth Equity. In Encyclopedia on Business and Professional Ethics: Poff, D. C. M., & Michalos, A. C. (Eds.)  Springer International Publishing. DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-23514-1_78-1

Presentations of Refereed Papers 

• Academic integrity, axiology, and business ethics pedagogy. 6th International Conference, Plagiarism across Europe and Beyond. European Network for Academic Integrity and Wollongong University, Dubai, April 2020. 

• The Political Dimension of Fair Trade Consumption. Working paper. Accepted but not presented, Fair Trade International Symposium 2018, University of Portsmouth, UK, June 2018. 

• Doran, C. (2010). ἐμπάθεια (empatheia) or Caritas: The Role of Religion and Traditional Values in Ethical Consumption. 16th International symposium on ethics, business, and society, IESE, Barcelona, Spain. (2010).

• Defining Mainstream American Culture. 14th Cross-cultural research conference, Brigham Young University, Puerto Vallarta, Mexico, 2009. 

• The In-Group versus Out-Group Distinction in Ethical Consumption. 9th International Conference on Social Values in Education and Business, Oxford University.  

Presentations by Invitation

• Doran C. (2015). Alternative Models of Education.  Invited speaker/paper presented, Roundtable Wealth Equity and Education. Faculty of Education, University of Cambridge, UK, October, 2015.

• Values in Business Education. Invited speaker/paper presented, Roundtable: For Profit Education. Kellogg College, Oxford University, October 21-23, 2013.

Education

• PhD, Organization and Management. Capella University, 2007
• MBA, Master of Business Administration, Economics. Cameron University, 2000
• BA, Hotel Management. Galway-Mayo Institute of Technology, 1993.