Despite a growing body of research by management scholars to understand and explain failures in ethical decision making (EDM), misconduct prevails. Scholars have identified character, founded in virtue ethics, as an important perspective that can help to address the gap in organizational misconduct. While character has been offered as a valid perspective in EDM, current theorizing on how it applies to EDM has not been well developed. We thus integrate character, founded in virtue ethics, into Rest’s (1986) EDM model to reveal how shifting attention to the nature of the moral agent provides critical insights into decision making more broadly and EDM specifically. Virtue ethics provides a perspective on EDM that acknowledges and anticipates uncertainties, considers its contextual constraints, and contemplates the development of the moral agent. We thus answer the call by many scholars to integrate character in EDM in order to advance the understanding of the field and suggest propositions for how to move forward. We conclude with implications of a character-infused approach to EDM for future research.

尽管管理学者越来越多地研究和理解道德决策制定（EDM）的失败，但是行为不端仍然很普遍。学者们已经将建立在道德伦理基础上的品格确定为可以帮助解决组织不当行为差距的重要观点。虽然在EDM中提供了字符作为有效的观点，但是关于如何将其应用于EDM的最新理论还没有得到很好的发展。因此，我们将建立在道德伦理基础上的品格整合到Rest（1986）的EDM模型中，以揭示将注意力转移到道德主体的本质上如何为更广泛的决策（尤其是EDM）提供重要的见解。美德伦理学提供了一种关于EDM的观点，该观点承认并预期了不确定性，考虑了其上下文约束，并考虑了道德主体的发展。因此，我们回应了许多学者关于将字符集成到EDM中的呼吁，以增进对该领域的理解，并提出关于如何向前发展的主张。我们得出结论，将字符融合方法用于EDM以便将来进行研究。