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Research output: Contribution to Journal/Magazine › Conference article › peer-review
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TY - JOUR
T1 - Bridging postmodern ethics and practice theory: A framework to study ethics as practice
AU - D'souza, Sylvia
AU - Introna, Lucas
PY - 2025/6/17
Y1 - 2025/6/17
N2 - Dissatisfaction with the dominant universalist, rationalist, and mechanistic modes of conceptualizing ethical decision-making in management and organization studies (MOS) has led to alternative approaches. One promising alternative takes as its point of concern the question of what people actually do when they grapple with ethics in practice. Our contention in this paper is that the latent potential of this alternative line of inquiry has not been adequately realized because scholars have largely engaged with practice in the ordinary sense of doing, neglecting the deeper ontological implications of locating ethics in practice. We present a framework to show how ethical concerns from this alternative perspective, which so far have been largely inspired by postmodernist philosophical ideas, might be reformulated from a practice-based ontological perspective. We believe that this reorientation, guided by our framework, would be fruitful in taking us closer to practice-based ethical insights.
AB - Dissatisfaction with the dominant universalist, rationalist, and mechanistic modes of conceptualizing ethical decision-making in management and organization studies (MOS) has led to alternative approaches. One promising alternative takes as its point of concern the question of what people actually do when they grapple with ethics in practice. Our contention in this paper is that the latent potential of this alternative line of inquiry has not been adequately realized because scholars have largely engaged with practice in the ordinary sense of doing, neglecting the deeper ontological implications of locating ethics in practice. We present a framework to show how ethical concerns from this alternative perspective, which so far have been largely inspired by postmodernist philosophical ideas, might be reformulated from a practice-based ontological perspective. We believe that this reorientation, guided by our framework, would be fruitful in taking us closer to practice-based ethical insights.
M3 - Conference article
VL - 2025
JO - Academy of Management Proceedings
JF - Academy of Management Proceedings
SN - 0065-0668
IS - 1
T2 - 85th Annual Meeting of the Academy of Management
Y2 - 25 July 2025 through 29 July 2025
ER -