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Carl Rhodes is Professor of Business and Society at UTS Business School. Carl researches the relationship between liberal democracy and contemporary capitalism. This work questions and endeavours to reformulate the role of business in society so prosperity can be shared by all.

Carl's new book, 'Stinking RIch: The Four Myths of the Good Billionaire' (Bristol University Press) was published in January 2025. Other recent books are 'Woke Capitalism: How Corporate Morality is Sabotaging Democracy' (Bristol University Press, 2022), 'Organizing Corporeal Ethics (Routledge, 2022 with Alison Pullen) 'Disturbing Business Ethics' (Routledge, 2019) and 'CEO Society: The Corporate Takeover of Everyday Life' (Zed, 2018 with Peter Bloom). His writing has appeared in The Guardian, Times Higher Education, ABC News, The Sydney Morning Herald, and The Australian Financial Review.
As well as working at UTS, Carl has held professorships at Swansea University, The University of Leicester, and Macquarie University. Prior to his academic career, Carl worked in professional and senior management positions in change management and organizational development for AGL, Lend Lease, Citibank and The Boston Consulting Group. He sits on the editorial boards of the leading scholarly journals Human Relations, Organization, Organization Studies, Organization Theory and The Journal of Business Ethics, and is series editor of Routledge Studies in Business Ethics.