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Proceedings - Academy of Management, Aug 1, 2023
Edward Elgar Publishing eBooks, Jan 24, 2023
Academy of Management Proceedings
Gender, Work & Organization, 2021
Rocks. Geological forces across time and space. Non‐human beings.Humans. Affect material encounte... more Rocks. Geological forces across time and space. Non‐human beings.Humans. Affect material encounters with rocks.Connecting. Being. Writing… From the Artic to Eastern Finland. From Sydney to Kangaroo Island, Australia. From the north to the south, and back again.Corporeal, affective. These rocks live with and through us. Touching rocks—rocks touch us. Bodies—rocks, co‐constituted in life.Disrupting. Non‐violent. Ethico‐political acts of writing. Writing rocks.Humans become geologic forces. Care. Response‐able.
Management and Organization, 2009
Organization and Identity provides an exploration of identity as a contemporary concern in everyd... more Organization and Identity provides an exploration of identity as a contemporary concern in everyday life and as a key concept in the social sciences, particularly focusing on how ideas about identity can be applied to organization and management studies. The contributors to this volume use and develop recent philosophical thought on the nature of identity to ask questions about the key social divisions of gender, class and nation, such as whether we are able to write our own identity stories or do we remain bound by social constraints and ...
Routledge, Taylor and Francis Group, 2020
Academy of Management Proceedings, 2018
This panel symposium will be of interest to members of the CMS Division, as this year marks the 2... more This panel symposium will be of interest to members of the CMS Division, as this year marks the 20th anniversary of the CMS Workshops and the 10th anniversary of the move from a Special Interest Gr...
Organization, Nov 4, 2019
Dialogues in critical management studies, Apr 24, 2020
Routledge eBooks, Oct 1, 2021
Proceedings - Academy of Management, Aug 1, 2019
Organization, Nov 17, 2022
Journal of Business Ethics, Jun 10, 2009
Although studies in organizational storytelling have dealt extensively with the relationship betw... more Although studies in organizational storytelling have dealt extensively with the relationship between narrative, power and organizational change, little attention has been paid to the implications of this for ethics within organizations. This article addresses this by presenting an analysis of narrative and ethics as it relates to the practice of organizational downsizing. Drawing on Paul Ricoeur's theories of narrative and ethics, we analyze stories of organizational change reported by employees and managers in an organization that had undergone persistent downsizing. Our analysis maintains that the presence of a dominant story that seeks to legitimate organizational change also serves to normalize it, and that this, in turn, diminishes the capacity for organizations to scrutinize the ethics of their actions. We argue that when organizational change narratives become singularized through dominant forms of emplotment, ethical deliberation and responsibility in organizations are diminished. More generally, we contend that the narrative closure achieved by the presence of a dominant narrative amongst employees undergoing organizational change is antithetical to the openness required for ethical questioning.
Routledge eBooks, Jun 5, 2015
The Routledge Companion to Ethics, Politics and Organizations synthesizes and extends existing re... more The Routledge Companion to Ethics, Politics and Organizations synthesizes and extends existing research on ethics in organizations by explicitly focusing on ‘ethico-politics’ - where ethics informs political action. It draws connections between ethics and politics in and around organizations and the workplace, examines cutting-edge areas and sets the scene for future research. Through a wealth of international and multidisciplinary contributions this volume considers the broad range of ways in which ethics and politics can be conceived and understood. The chapters look at various ethical traditions, as well as the discursive deployment of ethical terminology in organizational settings, and they also examine large scale political structures and processes and how they relate to different forms of politics which affect behaviour in organizations. These many possibilities are united by a focus on how ethics can be used to inform and justify the exercise of power in organizations. This collection will be a valuable reference source for students and researchers across the disciplines of organizational studies, ethics and politics.Introduction: the inseparability of ethics and politics in organizations / Alison Pullen and Carl Rhodes -- Ethics and corporate power -- Instrumental and political currents in the CSR debate : on the demise and (possible) resurgence of "ethics" / Steen Vallentin -- "Between coercion and brainwashing" : theorizing the politics and ethics of marketing / Amanda Earley and Mike Saren -- Re-ethicizing corporate greening? : ecofeminism, activism and the ethics of care / Mary Phillips -- The oppressed organize against mega-mining in famatina, argentina : Enrique Dussel's ethics of liberation / Ceci Misoczky and Steffen Böhm -- Marketing an extremist ideology : the Vlaams Belang's nationalist discourse / Mona Moufahim and Michael Humphreys -- Postcolonial, globalized and cosmopolitan ethics -- Positioning the plural ethos of cosmopolitanism in global organizations / Maddy Janssens and Chris Steyaert -- The politics and ethics of difference in organisations : pathways to the same that is impossible / Robert Westwood -- On the burden of being-qua-non-being : in-between the lines of working-class writings / Dhammika Jayawardena -- 'Black international business' : critical issues and ethical dilemmas / Sharif As-Saber And George Cairns -- Cultural encounters with sporting organisation : ethico-politics at the interface of indigenous culture and organisation / Tim Butcher and Barry Judd -- Ethics, politics and the functioning of business -- Accounting, ethics and organization : accounting for human rights in a post-sovereign world? / Ken McPhail -- Decision-making : between reason and the ethico-political moment / Paul Edward and Hugh Willmott -- Leadership, ethical sovereignty and the politics of property / Edward Wray-Bliss -- Tracing and theorizing ethics in entrepreneurship : toward a critical hermeneutics of imagination / Pascal Dey and Chris Staeyert -- "Who said we're flogging a dead horse?" : re-framing ethics and the supply chain / Matthew Higgins and Nick Ellis -- Ethico-political practice in organizations -- Ethico-politics of diversity and its production / Pasi Ahonen and Janne Tienari 18. The Theology of OrganiWork as God's Playtime? The Theology of Organizational Play / Bent Meier Sørensen and Sverre Spoelstre -- Whistleblowing paradoxes : legislative protection and corporate counter resistance / Hilary Monk, David Knights and Margaret Page -- Care as politics : ethics as violence / Robert McMurray -- A critical analysis of ethics management practices / Mollie Painter-Morland Part V: Ethics, Resistance and Struggle -- Is becoming-woman possible in organizations? / Alison Pullen and Carl Rhodes 23. Resisting the Power of Organizational Resistance / Peter Bloom -- Work and illness under neoliberal capitalism : how to use your virus as a weapon of refusal / Peter Fleming -- A cultural politics of work : resistance and escape in the culture of organizing / Martin Parker -- On the impossibility of business ethics : leadership, heterogeneity and politics / Gerard Hanlon and Matteo Mandarini -- Difference, ethics and organizations -- Monstrous ethics / Torkild Thanem and Louise Wallenberg -- Towards a queer politics and ethics within organization studies / Nick Rumens and Melissa Tyler -- Pragmatic storytelling, ethics, and politics of late modern capitalist enterprises / David Boje and Rohny Saylors -- Working the grey zones : feminist ethics, organisational politics / Sheena Vachhani -- An ethics of difference : the contribution of bracha ettinger to management and organization studies / Kate Kenny and Marianna Fotaki.521 page(s
Journal of Business Ethics, Oct 24, 2020
CEOs are attracting significant public attention due to their social and environmental activism. ... more CEOs are attracting significant public attention due to their social and environmental activism. Positioned as an exercise of personal morality, such activism is potentially highly influential because of CEOs' public visibility and associated positional and resource-based power. This paper questions the assumption that CEO activism can only be explained in relation to individual moral action and illuminates its wider social implications. We critically evaluate the recent upsurge in CEO activism by juxtaposing it with broader social activism, identifying its distinctive characteristics, and empirically examining two recent 'moral episodes': the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program and Fetal Heartbeat Acts (FHAs). Our analysis demonstrates that CEO activism is more heterogeneous than research to date has shown. Building on this analysis, a refined understanding of the character and morality of CEO activism is developed, through establishing a typology of its forms. We conclude that while CEO activism is an important and potent new phenomenon, now is not the time to look to CEOs as moral leaders in relation to broader public morality. Instead, it is paramount to question the motives and effects of what CEOs do in the name of morality.
Management Learning, Jan 13, 2019
This special issue of Management Learning on 'Writing Differently' builds on a groundswell of res... more This special issue of Management Learning on 'Writing Differently' builds on a groundswell of resistance to 'scientific' norms of academic writing. These norms are restrictive, inhibit the development of knowledge and excise much of what it is to be human from our learning, teaching and research. Contributors to the special issue explore how, released from these restrictions, it is possible to touch vulnerable flesh and invoke new political and ethical practices. Through changing our norms of writing, we explore different modes of learning and change how and what we teach. By bringing the previously excised vast hinterlands of life and lives to the fore, we create the intellectual space to engender new ideas as well as more collaborative forms of learning. In so doing, we foster alternative conversations as to how we might constitute new, highly ethical and humanitarian organisations.
SAGE Publications Ltd eBooks, Feb 17, 2011
SAGE Publications eBooks, 2009
Skip to content Skip to navigation Accessibility Using a modern browser that supports web standar... more Skip to content Skip to navigation Accessibility Using a modern browser that supports web standards ensures that the site's full visual experience is available. Consider upgrading your browser if you are using an older technology. ...
Proceedings - Academy of Management, Aug 1, 2023
Edward Elgar Publishing eBooks, Jan 24, 2023
Academy of Management Proceedings
Gender, Work & Organization, 2021
Rocks. Geological forces across time and space. Non‐human beings.Humans. Affect material encounte... more Rocks. Geological forces across time and space. Non‐human beings.Humans. Affect material encounters with rocks.Connecting. Being. Writing… From the Artic to Eastern Finland. From Sydney to Kangaroo Island, Australia. From the north to the south, and back again.Corporeal, affective. These rocks live with and through us. Touching rocks—rocks touch us. Bodies—rocks, co‐constituted in life.Disrupting. Non‐violent. Ethico‐political acts of writing. Writing rocks.Humans become geologic forces. Care. Response‐able.
Management and Organization, 2009
Organization and Identity provides an exploration of identity as a contemporary concern in everyd... more Organization and Identity provides an exploration of identity as a contemporary concern in everyday life and as a key concept in the social sciences, particularly focusing on how ideas about identity can be applied to organization and management studies. The contributors to this volume use and develop recent philosophical thought on the nature of identity to ask questions about the key social divisions of gender, class and nation, such as whether we are able to write our own identity stories or do we remain bound by social constraints and ...
Routledge, Taylor and Francis Group, 2020
Academy of Management Proceedings, 2018
This panel symposium will be of interest to members of the CMS Division, as this year marks the 2... more This panel symposium will be of interest to members of the CMS Division, as this year marks the 20th anniversary of the CMS Workshops and the 10th anniversary of the move from a Special Interest Gr...
Organization, Nov 4, 2019
Dialogues in critical management studies, Apr 24, 2020
Routledge eBooks, Oct 1, 2021
Proceedings - Academy of Management, Aug 1, 2019
Organization, Nov 17, 2022
Journal of Business Ethics, Jun 10, 2009
Although studies in organizational storytelling have dealt extensively with the relationship betw... more Although studies in organizational storytelling have dealt extensively with the relationship between narrative, power and organizational change, little attention has been paid to the implications of this for ethics within organizations. This article addresses this by presenting an analysis of narrative and ethics as it relates to the practice of organizational downsizing. Drawing on Paul Ricoeur's theories of narrative and ethics, we analyze stories of organizational change reported by employees and managers in an organization that had undergone persistent downsizing. Our analysis maintains that the presence of a dominant story that seeks to legitimate organizational change also serves to normalize it, and that this, in turn, diminishes the capacity for organizations to scrutinize the ethics of their actions. We argue that when organizational change narratives become singularized through dominant forms of emplotment, ethical deliberation and responsibility in organizations are diminished. More generally, we contend that the narrative closure achieved by the presence of a dominant narrative amongst employees undergoing organizational change is antithetical to the openness required for ethical questioning.
Routledge eBooks, Jun 5, 2015
The Routledge Companion to Ethics, Politics and Organizations synthesizes and extends existing re... more The Routledge Companion to Ethics, Politics and Organizations synthesizes and extends existing research on ethics in organizations by explicitly focusing on ‘ethico-politics’ - where ethics informs political action. It draws connections between ethics and politics in and around organizations and the workplace, examines cutting-edge areas and sets the scene for future research. Through a wealth of international and multidisciplinary contributions this volume considers the broad range of ways in which ethics and politics can be conceived and understood. The chapters look at various ethical traditions, as well as the discursive deployment of ethical terminology in organizational settings, and they also examine large scale political structures and processes and how they relate to different forms of politics which affect behaviour in organizations. These many possibilities are united by a focus on how ethics can be used to inform and justify the exercise of power in organizations. This collection will be a valuable reference source for students and researchers across the disciplines of organizational studies, ethics and politics.Introduction: the inseparability of ethics and politics in organizations / Alison Pullen and Carl Rhodes -- Ethics and corporate power -- Instrumental and political currents in the CSR debate : on the demise and (possible) resurgence of "ethics" / Steen Vallentin -- "Between coercion and brainwashing" : theorizing the politics and ethics of marketing / Amanda Earley and Mike Saren -- Re-ethicizing corporate greening? : ecofeminism, activism and the ethics of care / Mary Phillips -- The oppressed organize against mega-mining in famatina, argentina : Enrique Dussel's ethics of liberation / Ceci Misoczky and Steffen Böhm -- Marketing an extremist ideology : the Vlaams Belang's nationalist discourse / Mona Moufahim and Michael Humphreys -- Postcolonial, globalized and cosmopolitan ethics -- Positioning the plural ethos of cosmopolitanism in global organizations / Maddy Janssens and Chris Steyaert -- The politics and ethics of difference in organisations : pathways to the same that is impossible / Robert Westwood -- On the burden of being-qua-non-being : in-between the lines of working-class writings / Dhammika Jayawardena -- 'Black international business' : critical issues and ethical dilemmas / Sharif As-Saber And George Cairns -- Cultural encounters with sporting organisation : ethico-politics at the interface of indigenous culture and organisation / Tim Butcher and Barry Judd -- Ethics, politics and the functioning of business -- Accounting, ethics and organization : accounting for human rights in a post-sovereign world? / Ken McPhail -- Decision-making : between reason and the ethico-political moment / Paul Edward and Hugh Willmott -- Leadership, ethical sovereignty and the politics of property / Edward Wray-Bliss -- Tracing and theorizing ethics in entrepreneurship : toward a critical hermeneutics of imagination / Pascal Dey and Chris Staeyert -- "Who said we're flogging a dead horse?" : re-framing ethics and the supply chain / Matthew Higgins and Nick Ellis -- Ethico-political practice in organizations -- Ethico-politics of diversity and its production / Pasi Ahonen and Janne Tienari 18. The Theology of OrganiWork as God's Playtime? The Theology of Organizational Play / Bent Meier Sørensen and Sverre Spoelstre -- Whistleblowing paradoxes : legislative protection and corporate counter resistance / Hilary Monk, David Knights and Margaret Page -- Care as politics : ethics as violence / Robert McMurray -- A critical analysis of ethics management practices / Mollie Painter-Morland Part V: Ethics, Resistance and Struggle -- Is becoming-woman possible in organizations? / Alison Pullen and Carl Rhodes 23. Resisting the Power of Organizational Resistance / Peter Bloom -- Work and illness under neoliberal capitalism : how to use your virus as a weapon of refusal / Peter Fleming -- A cultural politics of work : resistance and escape in the culture of organizing / Martin Parker -- On the impossibility of business ethics : leadership, heterogeneity and politics / Gerard Hanlon and Matteo Mandarini -- Difference, ethics and organizations -- Monstrous ethics / Torkild Thanem and Louise Wallenberg -- Towards a queer politics and ethics within organization studies / Nick Rumens and Melissa Tyler -- Pragmatic storytelling, ethics, and politics of late modern capitalist enterprises / David Boje and Rohny Saylors -- Working the grey zones : feminist ethics, organisational politics / Sheena Vachhani -- An ethics of difference : the contribution of bracha ettinger to management and organization studies / Kate Kenny and Marianna Fotaki.521 page(s
Journal of Business Ethics, Oct 24, 2020
CEOs are attracting significant public attention due to their social and environmental activism. ... more CEOs are attracting significant public attention due to their social and environmental activism. Positioned as an exercise of personal morality, such activism is potentially highly influential because of CEOs' public visibility and associated positional and resource-based power. This paper questions the assumption that CEO activism can only be explained in relation to individual moral action and illuminates its wider social implications. We critically evaluate the recent upsurge in CEO activism by juxtaposing it with broader social activism, identifying its distinctive characteristics, and empirically examining two recent 'moral episodes': the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program and Fetal Heartbeat Acts (FHAs). Our analysis demonstrates that CEO activism is more heterogeneous than research to date has shown. Building on this analysis, a refined understanding of the character and morality of CEO activism is developed, through establishing a typology of its forms. We conclude that while CEO activism is an important and potent new phenomenon, now is not the time to look to CEOs as moral leaders in relation to broader public morality. Instead, it is paramount to question the motives and effects of what CEOs do in the name of morality.
Management Learning, Jan 13, 2019
This special issue of Management Learning on 'Writing Differently' builds on a groundswell of res... more This special issue of Management Learning on 'Writing Differently' builds on a groundswell of resistance to 'scientific' norms of academic writing. These norms are restrictive, inhibit the development of knowledge and excise much of what it is to be human from our learning, teaching and research. Contributors to the special issue explore how, released from these restrictions, it is possible to touch vulnerable flesh and invoke new political and ethical practices. Through changing our norms of writing, we explore different modes of learning and change how and what we teach. By bringing the previously excised vast hinterlands of life and lives to the fore, we create the intellectual space to engender new ideas as well as more collaborative forms of learning. In so doing, we foster alternative conversations as to how we might constitute new, highly ethical and humanitarian organisations.
SAGE Publications Ltd eBooks, Feb 17, 2011
SAGE Publications eBooks, 2009
Skip to content Skip to navigation Accessibility Using a modern browser that supports web standar... more Skip to content Skip to navigation Accessibility Using a modern browser that supports web standards ensures that the site's full visual experience is available. Consider upgrading your browser if you are using an older technology. ...
Given the need to operationalise effective leadership in fast changing organizational times and o... more Given the need to operationalise effective leadership in fast changing organizational times and often within states of economic, political and social crisis, the practical as well as epistemic challenges that leaders face require serious academic scrutiny. In this stream we perform such analysis by contesting the continued theorization and research of leadership as disembodied, and instead paying critical attention to the corporeal nature of leadership itself.
A growing movement in management and organization studies (MOS) seeks to break out of the constra... more A growing movement in management and organization studies (MOS) seeks to break out of the constraints of scientific writing in order to better develop insights and understanding about management and the world of work, and how to communicate those ideas. 'Scientific writing' is understood to put restrictions on the possibilities for thinking, discussing and learning, for maintaining a dysfunctional status quo through quashing the possibilities of even thinking differently. This has direct implications for management learning: if 'writing differently' were to assist in developing new ways of understanding of managerial research and its implications, would it prove a distraction that 'dis-educates' and prevents learning? The strengths of the arguments against dominant forms of academic writing suggest not. Indeed, they lead to the question: what forms can 'writing differently' take that will challenge dominant conceptions of management that, arguably, inhibit understanding and induct students and practitioners into maintaining, rather than challenging, neo-liberalist control regimes? This special issue will therefore explore some of the different forms that our academic writing might take and how these new ways of writing could change the boundaries of thought within schools of business and management. Its focus is on articulating ways of thinking about management learning differently, both by challenging the performative work of dominant modes of writing, thinking, reading and learning about management, and by offering alternatives.
Announcement of the 10th Biennial Conference on Gender, Work and Organization, Sydney, June 2018