Adeyinka Adewale

Dr Adeyinka Adewale is an Associate Professor of Leadership Ethics and Entrepreneurship at Henley Business School. He is a member of both the Henley Centre for Entrepreneurship and the Centre for Business Ethics and Sustainability.

Adeyinka's doctoral research was in the field of business ethics with a special focus on contexts, especially bureaucracies and their impact on employee morality. The research drew on socio-cognitive theories such as the Moral Identity theory and Kohlberg’s Cognitive Moral Development theory within the pharmaceutical industry context of a developing country to understand how bureaucratic contexts interact with employees' moral identities. His current research focus spans business ethics, CSR and entrepreneurship in the context of emerging economies.

His teaching portfolio covers undergraduate and postgraduate modules in Entrepreneurship, Organisational Behaviour, Business Ethics and the Degree Apprenticeship program.

Adeyinka regularly gives talks at academic conferences in Africa, Europe, United States and Asia. He is also often invited to deliver keynote addresses and to facilitate trainings, seminars and workshops for business organisations, government institutions and professional bodies. He sits on the board of a number of organisations and charities in Africa and is an adviser to many small business owners globally.

Adeyinka is also a reviewer for top management journals. He has published his research in leading journals and with renowned management textbook publishers including Edward Elgar and Taylor and Francis Group.

Specialisms

• Business Ethics
• Bureaucracies
• Employee Morality
• Entrepreneurship

Book Chapters:

'Integrated Habitus for the common good of the firm – a dialogical conception of habitus, grounded on virtue on the basis of processual self-integrity capacity'.   Published in the textbook Challenges of Capitalism for virtue ethics and the common good. Editors: Akrivou, K and Sison, A. Publisher: Ed Elgar (May, 2016)

'Surviving in Africa: The response of Multinational Corporation to institutional deficiencies and their broader moral implications'. Published in the textbook, Management Development in Africa: Building capacities to serve African organisations. Editors: Kazeroony, H., Puplampu, B., Du Plessis, Y.Publisher: Routledge, Taylor and Francis Group (March, 2016)

Conference Presentations

'A Tale of Four Bureaucracies'. Conference paper presented at the Beyond Bureaucracy Seminar at the Institute for American Studies, Fudan University, Shanghai (June, 2016)

'Beyond Bureaucracy: Lessons from Corporate Bureaucracies'.   Conference paper presented at the Beyond Bureaucracy Seminar at the Danube University, Krems, Austria (June, 2016)

'Does Bureaucracy stifle moral agency?' Published in the special issue of the International Journal of Public Administration in the Digital Age themed Beyond Bureaucracy (December, 2015)

'Bureaucracy and Employee Moral Agency'. Conference paper presented at the Beyond Bureaucracy conference at the Vienna Institute of Technology, Vienna Austria International Journal of Public Administration in the Digital Age (May, 2015)