
Dr. Sareh Pouryousefi
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 Quarterly, Journal 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 |
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2025 Pouryousefi, S. and Tallant, J. On the Possibility of a Normative Account of Corporate Trust, Inquiry: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Philosophy (Forthcoming) |
2025 Donaldson, T., Pouryousefi, S., Scholz, M., Smith, N. C., Spence, L. J. Co-editors’ introduction to the Special Issue on Normativity in Business Ethics, Business Ethics Quarterly. (Forthcoming) |
2025 Pouryousefi, S. and Tallant, J. The Firm, Trust, and the Participant Stance, Business Ethics Journal Review. (Forthcoming) |
2024 Heath, J., Pouryousefi, S. Ethics by Proxy? An Agency-Theoretic Analysis of ESG Investment, in V. Gentile, E. Orts, A. Rasche and A. Strudler (eds.) The Ethics Of ESG: Critically Assessing the Environmental, Social and Governance Movement. Cambridge University Press. (Forthcoming) |
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 33(3), pp. 596-602 |
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 |
Year | Honour & Award |
2024 - 2026 | Research Development Grant, Ted Rogers School of Management. Project title: A Normative Model of Professionalization. $4,783.18 (PI) |
2024 - 2025 | TRSM Matching Fund Grant. $800. Purpose: hosting an international speaker for the Ted Rogers Leadership Centre's Business Ethics Speakers Series |
2024 - 2025 | SSHRC Explore, Ted Rogers School of Management. Project title: The Morality of Trust – Toward a Normative Account of Trust in Firms and Professional Associations. $6,920.00 (PI) |
2023 - 2024 | TRSM Outstanding Research Contribution Fund for “Empirical reflections on trust in groups”, Journal of the American Philosophical Association. $2000 (PI) |
2023 - 2024 | TRSM GTA Conference Fund, Administrative Sciences Association of Canada conference, Toronto, June 3-5. $500 (PI) |
2023 - 2024 | Aboriginal Education Council, Curriculum Development Grant Proposal for Law and Business Department. Purpose: the development of a new elective course. $3000 (Co-Applicant) |
2021 - 2022 | TRSM Research Recognition Award |
2021 - 2022 | TRSM Outstanding Research Contribution Fund for “The Promise of Pragmatism: Richard Rorty and Business Ethics”, Business Ethics Quarterly. $2000 (PI) |
2020 - 2021 | TRSM Publishing Fund for “The Promise of Pragmatism: Richard Rorty and Business Ethics”, Business Ethics Quarterly. $500 (PI) |
2019 | Global Forum Best Symposium Award, Management Education and Development Division, Academy of Management meeting, Boston |
2018 | Finalist, Best Article Award, Business Ethics Quarterly (Top 3 papers) |
2017 - 2018 | British Council’s Researcher Links program grant |
2017 | Star reviewer, Journal of Business Ethics |
2016 - 2020 | Visiting Scholar, Olsson Centre for Applied Ethics, Darden School of Business, University of Virginia |
2016 - 2019 | Darden Business School Research grant, Centre for Applied Ethics Research Seminar, University of Virginia |
2016 | Teaching Award (MBA), Nottingham University Business School |
2016 | Citizenship & Collegiality Award, Nottingham University Business School |
2016 | Workshop grant, European Business Ethics Network & the Trans-Atlantic Doctoral Academy in Business, Economics, and Ethics |
2014 | Higher Education Innovation Funding (HEIF) PI. Matched funding “Emerging Leaders” part of CAD $37 million National Centre of Excellence bid |
2013 - 2020 | Conference, workshop, and research visit funding, Nottingham University Business School (9 awards) |
2013 - 2015 | Post-doctoral research fellowship, FP7 European Commission grant, Nottingham University Business School |
2012 | Founders’ Award, Society for Business Ethics |
2012 | Doctoral Thesis Completion Award, School of Graduate Studies, University of Toronto |
2011 | Finalist, Best Conference Paper Award, Society for Business Ethics (Top 3 papers) |
2011 | Teaching Excellence Award, University-wide competition, University of Toronto (by nomination) |
2011 - 2013 | Research grant, School of Graduate Studies, University of Toronto (3 awards) |
2011 - 2012 | Trans-Atlantic Doctoral Academy research grant, Institute for Business Ethics, University of St. Gallen (4 awards) |
2008 - 2012 | Doctoral Fellowship, Philosophy, University of Toronto |
2008 - 2012 | Canadian Business Ethics Research Network grants, Schulich School of Business, York University (8 awards) |
2008 - 2012 | Research grant, Department of Philosophy doctoral programme, University of Toronto (6 awards) |
2008 | Doctoral Admission Award, Department of Philosophy, University of Toronto |
2006 - 2007 | Canada Graduate Scholarship Master’s Award, Social Science and Humanities Research Council |