ABSTRACT
This chapter critically reviews existing research on the ethics of organization. Two streams are identified: one that advocates for a means through which organizations can pursue their own ethicality, and a second critical approach that questions how those means are implemented or responded to. Despite the diversity of this research, it collectively demonstrates that the main attention of organizational ethics has been on the ethical agency of organizations themselves, in terms of either valorizing it as the route to ethics, or condemning it as needing to be politically resisted. Corporeal ethics is introduced as an ethics of organization that is enacted outside of the agency of formal power and authority. This ethics is located beyond any individual’s identity and agency, arriving instead at the level of the embodied relations between people. The chapter considers how the value of the corporeal approach emerges from an ethics in organizations that is collective, other-focused, and generous. This ethics is fundamentally based in embodied affect, yet practically materialized in ethico-political acts of positive resistance and revitalization.
