Andrew B . Gustafson, PhD

Professor

Marketing and Management

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Contact

AndrewGustafson@creighton.edu
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Andrew B . Gustafson, PhD

Professor

Marketing and Management

Raised on a hog, corn and cattle farm in central Nebraska, Gustafson attended colleges in Canada and Israel before completing his B.A. in philosophy and english at UNL(1992). After an M.A. in Christian Thought at Trinity in Chicago(1994), and an M.A. in Philosophy at Fordham (1996) while surviving a bout with cancer, he completed his Ph.D in Philosophy at Marquette (2001) on a full ride while teaching 2-5 courses per semester at Marquette, Trinity College and Cardinal Stritch. From 2001-2005 Gustafson was employed at Bethel University in the philosophy department. Creighton contacted him for the Business Ethics position, and he came to Creighton in 2005. He achieved tenure in 2010, and has published articles or reviews in Business Ethics Quarterly, Teaching Ethics, British Journal for the History of Philosophy, International Philosophical Quarterly, Jesuit Higher Education Journal, Business Ethics: A European Review, UNLV Gaming Review Journal, Teaching Business Ethics Journal, Trinity Journal, Religious Studies Review, Faith and Philosophy, and Philosophia Christi, and has given more than 100 academic or professional presentations at conferences and workshops regionally, nationally, and internationally. He has also been invited to give keynotes or talks at a variety of schools including Darden (U. Virginia), U-Texas San Antonio, Rockhurst, Cairn U., Tehran University (Iran), and other universities in Iran.

Teaching Interests

  • Business Ethics

Research Focus

Business Ethics, Ethics, John Stuart Mill, Utilitarianism, Catholic Social Thought and Business, Business Faith and the Common Good

Department

Marketing and Management

Position

Professor

Books

  • Research Handbook on Law and Utilitarianism
    Gustafson Andrew, Utilitarian business ethics and company law [Book Chapter] 2024
  • Handbook of Philosophy of Management
    Gustafson Andrew, Neesham Cristina, Macklin Rob, How Utilitarianism Can Inform Decent Managers in Plural and Culturally Diverse Contexts [Book Chapter] 2022
  • Humanizing Business
    Gustafson Andrew B., Business for the Greater Good: A Utilitarian Perspective on Humanizing Business [Book Chapter] 2022
  • Encyclopedia of Business and Professional Ethics
    Gustafson Andrew B., Pragmatism and Business Ethics [Book Chapter] 2021
  • Gustafson Andrew, Harvey Celeste D, Mill's defense of the rights of women 2018
  • Gustafson Andrew, Gale Researcher Guide for Mill's Defense of the Rights of Women 2018
  • Ethical issues in business: A philosophical approach
    Gustafson Andrew, Utilitarianism and business ethics [Book Chapter] 2006
  • , Utilitarians and Religion 2003
  • , God, the Gift, and Postmodernism 2000

General

  • Gustafson Andrew, Staying human in an era of artificial intelligence 2025
  • Gustafson Andrew, The Hermeneutics of charity: Interpretation, Selfhood, and Postmodern Faith - Edited by James K. A. Smith and Henry Isaac Venema (Book Review) 2006

Publications

  • Pluralist (Champaign, Ill.)
    Gustafson Andrew, Utilitarianism in the Early American Republic
    19:2, p. 106 - 110 2024
  • Business and society review (1974)
    Gustafson Andrew, How many houses should one own?: A subsidiarity and distributist‐based critique of real estate investors accumulation of houses 2024
  • Journal of academy of business and economics
    Gustafson Andy, Olson Keith, Wingender John, THE IMPACT ON FIRM VALUE FROM THE ANNOUNCEMENT OF CORPORATE CONTRIBUTIONS TO PLANNED PARENTHOOD
    23:4, p. 61 - 77 2023
  • Humanistic management journal
    Gustafson Andrew, Harvey Celeste, From Profit to Purpose: The Distinctive Proposition of the Economy of Communion Approach 2023
  • Humanistic management journal
    Gustafson Andrew, Harvey Celeste, The Economy of Communion Movement as Humanistic Management
    8:2, p. 149 - 166 2023
  • Gustafson Andrew, Harvey Celeste, The Economy of Communion Movement as Humanistic Management 2022
  • Business ethics journal review
    Gustafson Andrew, Dating, the Ethics of
 Competition, and Heath’s Market Failures Approach, p. 47 - 53 2018
  • Gustafson Andrew, The Challenges of Capitalism for Virtue Ethics and the Common Good: Interdisciplinary Perspectives 2018
  • Business Ethics Quarterly
    Gustafson Andrew, Marketing and the Common Good: Essays from Notre Dame on Societal Impact
    26:1, p. 146 - 149 2016
  • Journal of religion and business ethics
    Gustafson Andrew, McCarville Matthew, Catholic Social Thought in Catholic Business Schools in the U.S. Today: A Survey and Conclusions
    4:1 2015
  • UNLV Gaming Research & Review Journal
    Gustafson Andrew, Chopsticks and Gambling
    19:1, p. 63 - 65 2015
  • Supplement Series for the Journal of Religion & Society
    Gustafson Andrew, 15. Business in the Service of the Common Good: A Christian Perspective
    Supplement 10, p. 242 - 256 2014
  • Business and Society Review
    Gustafson Andrew, In defense of a Utilitarian business ethic
    118:3, p. 325 - 360 2013
  • Business Ethics Quarterly
    Gustafson Andrew, Business for the Common Good: A Christian Vision for the Marketplace [Review]
    23:1, p. 145 - 147 2013
  • Business Ethics
    Gustafson Andrew, Rorty, Caputo and business ethics without metaphysics: ethical theories as normative narratives
    19:2, p. 140 - 153 2010
  • Journal of international business
    Gustafson Andrew, Wachner Trent, Global pharmaceutical marketing incentive
    2:1, p. 29 - 50 2010
  • British Journal for the History of Philosophy
    Gustafson Andrew, Mill's Poet-Philosopher, and the Instrumental-Social Importance of Poetry for Moral Sentiments
    17:4, p. 821 - 847 2009
  • , Mill on God: The Pervasiveness and Elusiveness of Mill's Religious Thought 2009
  • International philosophical quarterly
    Gustafson Andrew, J. S. Mill's Communal Utilitarian Self: A Critique of Gray, Anschutz, and Wolff's Radically Individualistic Interpretations
    49:2, p. 173 - 184 2009
  • International Philosophical Quarterly
    Gustafson Andrew, J.S. Mill's communal utilitarian self
    49:2 2009
  • Gustafson Andrew, What Would Jesus Deconstruct? The Good News of Postmodernism for the Church 2008
  • Hekmat va Falsafeh
    Gustafson Andrew, Murtahda Mutahhari and John Stuart Mill's critique of the consumeristic commodification
    2:1 2006
  • Teaching Ethics
    Gustafson Andrew, Mill's view of art and poetry as the basis of moral education 2006
  • Hekmat va Falsafeh
    Gustafson Andrew, Kant: Friend or foe of the believer?: Plantinga and other American Christian responses to Kant's epistemology 2005
  • Teaching ethics
    , Art and Poetry as the Basis of Moral Education
    6:1, p. 1 - 14 2005
  • Philosophia Christi
    , Pocket Dictionary of Apologetics and Philosophy of Religion
    5:1, p. 331 - 331 2003
  • Business and society review (1974)
    Gustafson Andrew, Advertising's Impact on Morality in Society: Influencing Habits and Desires of Consumers
    106:3, p. 201 - 223 2001
  • Business ethics quarterly
    Gustafson Andrew, In support of ethical holism
    10:2, p. 441 - 450 2000
  • Business ethics quarterly
    Gustafson Andrew, In suppport of ethical holism: A response to 'Religious Perspectives in Business Ethics'
    10:2, p. 441 2000
  • Gustafson Andrew, Scott Rae and Kenman L. Wong. Beyond Integrity: A Judeo-Christian Approach to Business Ethics 1999