Morality, Ethics and Responsibility in Organization and Management

The book explores the moral and ethical foundations of business,challenging narrow accounts of governance codes,regulatory procedures,and behavior incentives. It looks at the writing of Gayatri C. Spivak,Judith Butler,Lauren Berlant,and Val Plumwood,who offer tools to rethink subjectivity,ethics,and corporate governance. It is relevant to students and researchers across business and management,organizational studies,critical management studies,gender studies,and sociology.

Format: Paperback / softback
Length: 96 pages
Publication date: 01 February 2022
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd

In the wake of the financial crisis and the prevalence of corporate scandals, there has been a growing concern with the moral and ethical foundations of business. Often, these concerns are confined to narrow interpretations of governance codes, regulatory procedures, or behavior incentives, which are often influenced by neoliberal biases rooted in Western masculine logics. This book aims to challenge these limited accounts of ethics and responsibility.

The book delves into the writings of Gayatri C. Spivak, who examines globally networked markets, people, and ideas, offering tools for rethinking subjectivity, ethics, and corporate governance. Spivak's work challenges strict hierarchical notions of authority and identity, prompting us to consider who speaks for whom and for what in organizational contexts. Relationality is also explored in the radical politics and feminist ethics of Judith Butler, who continues to draw on and develop her account of performativity to interpret contemporary organizations, management, and work.

While popular accounts of corporate ethics often focus on the aims and actions of those at the top of organizations, Lauren Berlant emphasizes the struggles of those at the bottom of the new social structures created by contemporary forms of capital. Finally, the book addresses ecological challenges through the work of Val Plumwood, who dedicated her life to considering the threats and responsibilities we face in environmental terms and developed a feminist ecological philosophy for understanding social and species differences.

This book will be of interest to students and researchers in business and management, organizational studies, critical management studies, gender studies, and sociology.

Weight: 146g
Dimension: 137 x 214 x 13 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9780367495213