ABSTRACT

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.

chapter |9 pages

Introduction

The inseparability of ethics and politics in organizations

part |89 pages

Ethics and corporate power

chapter |19 pages

Instrumental and political currents in the CSR debate

On the demise and (possible) resurgence of ‘ethics'

chapter |19 pages

‘Between coercion and brainwashing'

Theorizing the politics and ethics of marketing

chapter |16 pages

Re-ethicizing corporate greening?

Ecofeminism, activism and the ethics of care

chapter |18 pages

The oppressed organize against mega-mining in Famatina, Argentina

Enrique Dussel's ethics of liberation

chapter |15 pages

Marketing an extremist ideology

The Vlaams Belang's nationalist discourse

part |78 pages

Postcolonial, globalized and cosmopolitan ethics

chapter |18 pages

The politics and ethics of difference in organizations

Pathways to the same that is impossible

chapter |12 pages

On the burden of being-qua-non-being

In-between the lines of (working-class) writings

chapter |17 pages

Cultural encounters with sporting organization

Ethico-politics at the interface of Indigenous culture and organization

part |251 pages

Ethics, politics and the functioning of business

chapter |17 pages

Accounting, ethics and organization

Accounting for human rights in a post-sovereign world?

chapter |18 pages

Decision making

Between reason and the ethico-political moment

chapter |18 pages

Tracing and theorizing ethics in entrepreneurship

Toward a critical hermeneutics of imagination

chapter |20 pages

‘Who said we're flogging a dead horse?'

Reframing ethics and the supply chain

part |19 pages

Ethico-political practice in organizations

chapter |12 pages

Work as God's playtime?

The theology of organizational play

chapter |18 pages

Whistleblowing paradoxes

Legislative protection and corporate counter-resistance

chapter |17 pages

Care as politics

Ethics as violence

part |15 pages

Ethics, resistance and struggle

chapter |15 pages

Work and illness under neoliberal capitalism

How to use your virus as a weapon of refusal

chapter |14 pages

A cultural politics of work

Resistance and escape in the culture of organizing

chapter |17 pages

On the impossibility of business ethics

Leadership, heterogeneity and politics

part |75 pages

Difference, ethics and organizations

chapter |14 pages

Monstrous ethics

chapter |15 pages

Working the grey zones

Feminist ethics, organizational politics

chapter |12 pages

An ethics of difference

The contribution of Bracha Ettinger to management and organization studies