Embodied Generosity and an Ethics of Organization

Bibliographic Data

ID5791723
AuthorsPeter Hancock (0000-0003-0229-5669, University of Warwick, corresponding author), Philip Hancock (Warwick Business School, University of Warwick, Coventry CV4 7AL, UK,)
Year2008
Volume29
Issue10
Pages1357-1373
Publication date2008-09-24
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueOrganization Studies (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0170-8406 • E-ISSN: 1741-3044
PublisherSAGE Publishing (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1177/0170840608093545
OpenAlexW2159765778
LanguageEN
Citations received41
References cited27

In this essai I address the subject of organization and ethics. In contrast to both the Kantian legislative tradition, and the idea of organizational virtue, both of which are predominant within contemporary accounts of business ethics, I argue for an ethics of organization based on the principles of recognition. Such an ethics would be both intersubjective and embodied, sensitive to what Diprose (2002) has described as corporeal generosity. In doing so, I lay claim to a set of ontologically a priori conditions in order to provide an alternative ethical foundation for modes of organizing, as well as a retort to more mundane assumptions about the ethical character of organizational life

Generosity · Virtue ethics · Ethics in Business and Education · Management and Organizational Studies · Management Theory and Practice

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