Ethical leadership has become a popular subject
of empirical research in recent years. Most studies follow
Brown et al.’s definition of ethical leadership, which
consists of two components: the moral person and the
moral manager. In this paper, I argue for a third relevant
component: i.e., the moral entrepreneur who creates a new
ethical norm. Viewing moral entrepreneurship as a new
component of ethical leadership opens up avenues for
studying various antecedents and outcomes of ethical
leadership that have not been acknowledged so far, or at
least, not adequately
