Rethinking Responsible Agency in Corporations: Perspectives from Deleuze and Guattari

Painter‐Morland, Mollie

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“…They have contributed significantly to dismantling the subject-object distinction that lies at the heart of our ontologies and epistemologies. It took a while for scholars in organizational theory to start paying attention to the implications of these philosophers for business ethics (Ibarra-Colado et al 2006;Ladkin 2006;Byers and Rhodes 2007;Jones 2007;Deslandes 2012;Painter-Morland 2012Pérezts et al 2015). In the past 10 years, several books have also appeared claiming to take this approach to the field of business ethics (Jones et al 2006;Painter-Morland and Ten Bos 2011).…”

Section: Relational Selves From the Perspective Of Western Philosophymentioning

confidence: 99%

This Time from Africa: Developing a Relational Approach to Values-Driven Leadership

2019

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The importance of relationality in ethical leadership has been the focus of recent attention in business ethics scholarship. However, this relational component has not been sufficiently theorized from different philosophical perspectives, allowing specific Western philosophical conceptions to dominate the leadership development literature. This paper offers a theoretical analysis of the relational ontology that informs various conceptualizations of selfhood from both African and Western philosophical traditions and unpacks its implications for values-driven leadership. We aim to broaden Western conceptions of leadership development by drawing on twentieth century European philosophy's insights on relationality, but more importantly, to show how African philosophical traditions precede this literature in its insistence on a relational ontology of the self. To illustrate our theoretical argument, we reflect on an executive education course called values-driven leadership into action, which ran in South Africa, Kenya, and Egypt in 2016, 2017, and 2018. We highlight an African-inspired employment of relationality through its use of the ME-WE-WORLD framework, articulating its theoretical assumptions with embodied experiential learning.

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Section: Relational Selves From the Perspective Of Western Philosophymentioning

confidence: 99%

This Time from Africa: Developing a Relational Approach to Values-Driven Leadership

2019

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“…A second reason to use Deleuze and Guattari’s notion of the minor to theorize institutional agency is that it allows us to recast agency from being the attributes of preformed subjectivities toward being a product of a collective and emergent process (Kurik, 2016; Painter-Morland, 2011). A core term here is the complex and partly enigmatic notion of assemblage (Deleuze & Guattari, 1975/1986, pp.…”

Section: Resistance and (Minor) Rebellion As Sources Of Institutionalmentioning

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Spitting in the Salad: Minor Rebellion as Institutional Agency

Välikangas

Carlsen

2019

Organization Studies

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How can a desire for rebellion drive institutional agency, and how is such desire produced? In this paper, we develop a theory of minor rebellion as a form of institutional agency. Drawing from the work of Deleuze and Guattari as well as from notions of social inquiry and the sociology of punk, we qualify and illustrate minor rebellion as a lived-in field of desire and engagement that involves deterritorializing of practice in the institutional field. Three sets of processes are involved: (i) minor world-making, through establishing the aesthetics and relations of an outsider social network within a major field, including the enactment of cultural frames of revolt and radicalism; (ii) minor creating, through constructing and experimenting with terms, concepts, and technology that somehow challenge hegemony from within; and (iii) minor inquiring, through problematizing social purposes and the related experiential surfacing of the desirable new. Minor rebellion suggests a new solution to the paradox of embedded agency by describing institutional agency as shuttling between political contest and open-ended social inquiry, involving anti-sentiments, but also being for something. The paper also contributes to recasting institutional agency as a process resulting from emergent collective action rather than preceding it. To illustrate our theorizing, we describe the emergence of Robin Hood Asset Management, a Finnish activist hedge fund. At the end of the paper we discuss how minor rebellion raises new questions about the multiplicities and eventness of desiring in institutional agency.

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“…The account is analytical, which remains somewhat abstract (certainly when compared with the account suggested here through reference to intimacies). The paper is certainly sympathetic to these 2 The paper is sympathetic to arguments made by Painter-Morland (2011), who breaks from traditional ways of thinking about 'responsibility' in terms of character traits and fixed notions of identity and agency. She argues a different ontological account whereby 'agency emerges as a side-product of our human pursuits', leading us to need to 'redefine responsibility as a commitment to ongoing responsiveness to changing environments, rather than as some fixed role or trait' (p. 84).…”

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Response-Ability: Practicing Integrity Through Intimacy in the Marketplace

Fukukawa

2018

J Bus Ethics

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The paper addresses the problem of pursuing ethical business practices purely under the aegis of 'integrity', as frequently used to characterise morally desirable traits. Drawing on the work of philosopher Thomas Kasulis, the paper pairs 'integrity' with 'intimacy' as a critical concept, placing greater attention upon relational properties, helping to understand ethics as existing between individuals, things and the environment. The argument is that by paying careful attention to spatial and temporal dynamics and proximities of exchange, businesses can better maintain and extend practices of integrity. It reminds us that ethics are developmental (not transcendental); that the cultivation of ethics provides greater depth and ownership and pertains to matters of the body and habits. The paper contributes a way of reading exchanges in the marketplace beyond prescriptive accounts of integrity. Through the lens of both integrity and intimacy, it identifies how we actually 'live' or practice greater responsiveness to exchanges. Keywords Integrity · Intimacy · Responsiveness Response-Ability: Practicing Integrity Through Intimacy in the MarketplaceIn thinking through an ethics of both integrity and intimacy, this paper argues for a more nuanced reading of how 'responsible' exchanges take place in the everyday marketplace. Of particular pertinence is the way in which individuals interact in the service domain.1 As Audi and Murphy (2006, p. 3) note, integrity is a key topic in business ethics, 'quite possibly the most commonly cited morally desirable trait'. In the business context, integrity is commonly understood in terms of responsible management and leadership (Bauman 2013). Yet, historically this term has lacked clear articulation, and furthermore it can often signify 'a trait that is good in itself without constituting a moral virtue' (Audi and Murphy 2006, pp. 12-13). Rather than examining the higher-level rhetoric and company strategies of integrity, this paper situates the term at the level of person-to-person interaction, relating to sites of everyday market exchange.In doing so, it draws attention to a more phenomenological and quotidian experience of market exchange.The paper draws specifically upon Kasulis' (2002) account of integrity and intimacy, with the latter referring to 'an inseparability, a belonging together, a sharing' (p. 24), involving, for example, the sharing of tacit knowledge and greater awareness of situations and of the connection between one and another. Importantly, this is not the intimacy of lovers, but rather underlying structures (or we might say the medium) of exchange between people. 'We speak of the intimate relation between flora and fauna in a particular ecosystem, for example, or between matter and energy in the context of particle physics. In such cases, we cannot fully understand one side of the pair without consideration of the other' (Kasulis 2002, p. 28). However, despite describing a relationship between intimacy and integrity, Kasulis tends to set the two terms in...

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Rethinking Responsible Agency in Corporations: Perspectives from Deleuze and Guattari

Cited by 31 publications

References 24 publications

This Time from Africa: Developing a Relational Approach to Values-Driven Leadership

This Time from Africa: Developing a Relational Approach to Values-Driven Leadership

Spitting in the Salad: Minor Rebellion as Institutional Agency

Response-Ability: Practicing Integrity Through Intimacy in the Marketplace

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