Addressing Corporate Ties to Slavery: Corporate Apologia in a Discourse of Reconciliation

Janssen, Claudia Irene

doi:10.1080/10510974.2011.627974

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“…For example, a number of firms, including Bertelsmann and Volkswagen, that were associated with the Nazi regime, both intentionally and unintentionally downplayed some aspects of their involvement with the regime at one point in time or another (Booth, Clark, Delahaye, Procter, & Rowlinson, 2007;Janssen, 2013). Similarly, instances of irresponsibility are often buried by managers, intentionally or not, as in cases of oil spills, waste dumping or involvement in the slave trade (Janssen, 2012;Mena et al, 2016;Rowlinson, 2002).…”

Section: Uses Of the Pastmentioning

confidence: 99%

Managing the past responsibly: a collective memory perspective on responsibility, sustainability and ethics

Mena¹,

Rintamäki²

2020

Research Handbook of Responsible Management

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Thus far, responsible management and related areas, such as corporate social responsibility (CSR), sustainability and business ethics, have largely ignored that past beliefs about what is considered (ir)responsible are reconstructed over time. In this chapter, we address this oversight and develop a collective memory perspective that acknowledges the reconstruction of responsibility, sustainability and ethics over time, as a result of ongoing mnemonic struggles between a variety of actors including business firms and their managers, as well as other stakeholders, like civil society groups and the media. We show how the contemporary understanding of (ir)responsibility is contingent upon mnemonic struggles over what the past should encompass, as well as mnemonic work, different remembering and forgetting practices, the (re-)interpretation of mnemonic traces and the cultural context in which these processes take place. We outline key issues and concepts that should be taken into consideration in the practice of responsible management, where issues related to the past are concerned. We contribute to a more comprehensive understanding of responsible management that attends to a responsible management of the past, as well.

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Section: Uses Of the Pastmentioning

confidence: 99%

Managing the past responsibly: a collective memory perspective on responsibility, sustainability and ethics

Mena¹,

Rintamäki²

2020

Research Handbook of Responsible Management

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“…(p. 11) Although slavery's contributions to the Industrial Revolution, modern management and early American capitalism are often omitted from management histories (Cooke 2003;Nkomo and Al Ariss 2014;Rosenthal 2016), black slaves contributed to corporate wealth directly and indirectly in a number of ways. In addition to building and maintaining railroads, they built streets and buildings; they worked in coalmines, shipyards, hotels, and publishing houses (Biondi 2003;Dunaway 2003;Janssen 2012). Slave lives also served as a revenue stream for the burgeoning insurance industry, which profited from their exploitation (Biondi 2003;Janssen 2012;Murphy 2005).…”

Section: Slavery and The Ideological Destabilization Of Personhoodmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…In addition to building and maintaining railroads, they built streets and buildings; they worked in coalmines, shipyards, hotels, and publishing houses (Biondi 2003;Dunaway 2003;Janssen 2012). Slave lives also served as a revenue stream for the burgeoning insurance industry, which profited from their exploitation (Biondi 2003;Janssen 2012;Murphy 2005). While slave masters, both corporate and individual, grew wealthy from black bondage, blacks were often forbidden from reaping any financial gains for their toils due to laws like the Black Codes (Moore and Mitchell 2006;Woodward 2002).…”

Section: Slavery and The Ideological Destabilization Of Personhoodmentioning

confidence: 99%

Corporate Personhood and the Corporate Responsibility to Race

Logan

2018

J Bus Ethics

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Often overlooked in studies of the corporation is the recognition that the modern corporate form and its power are rooted in the issue of race, and more specifically, in racial oppression. The racialized roots of the corporation become exposed when we acknowledge the significance of slavery and the Fourteenth Amendment to the evolution of the corporate form along with the discriminatory role corporations have traditionally played in shaping race relations in the U.S. This article draws upon several theoretical perspectives, primarily critical race theory, management theory, legal studies, diversity management, and corporate social responsibility to introduce the corporate responsibility to race concept and establish it as a new basis for understanding why corporate persons have a responsibility for improving race relations.

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“…Organizational memory can be used to create identity both with internal and external stakeholders (Foster et al, 2011;Suddaby & Foster, 2017;Ybema, 2010) as well as to strategically to manage change (e.g., Anteby & Molnár, 2012;Maclean et al, 2014;Schultz & Hernes, 2013). It can also facilitate or hamper processes of negotiation and renegotiation of the past (Booth, Clark, Delahaye, Procter, & Rowlinson, 2007;Janssen, 2012a;Ybema, 2014) and dynamics of (re)appropriation and (re)interpretation (Schwartz, 1997).…”

Section: Organizational Mnemonicsmentioning

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Organizational Fields as Mnemonic Communities

Coraiola¹,

Suddaby²,

Foster³

2018

Knowledge and Institutions

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Network Structure and Collective Cognition The concept of the organizational field is central to organization theory. Despite its influence, the construct suffers from a lack of precise definition. Most theorists accept structuration as the core dynamic through which fields emerge (Scott, 1994) and, as a result, most definitions of organizational fields contain an element of structure or place, on one hand, and an element of collective meaning or cognition on the other. These two components of organizational fields-place and meaning-have an uncomfortable relationship with each other. Although most definitions of fields acknowledge that organizational fields are simultaneously spatial patterns of interaction of participants and their common meaning systems, there is no clear understanding of how a shared network structure can lead to collective cognition. As a result, most empirical applications of organizational fields tend to emphasize one element (structure or cognition) over the other. We seek to address this issue by introducing time, history and, most importantly, memory as the bridging mechanism that connects the structural and cognitive elements of organizational fields. We observe that institutional theorists have traditionally adopted the metaphor of fields as either geographical or symbolic structures, but largely neglected the understanding that fields are also temporal structures. As Barley and Tolbert (1997, p. 99) have argued, institutions are "historical accretions of past practices and understandings that set conditions on actions" as they "gradually acquire the moral and ontological status of taken-for-granted facts" (emphasis added). We apply this insight to the construct of fields, arguing that fields are

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Addressing Corporate Ties to Slavery: Corporate Apologia in a Discourse of Reconciliation

Cited by 20 publications

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Managing the past responsibly: a collective memory perspective on responsibility, sustainability and ethics

Managing the past responsibly: a collective memory perspective on responsibility, sustainability and ethics

Corporate Personhood and the Corporate Responsibility to Race

Organizational Fields as Mnemonic Communities

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