How Can I Become a Responsible Subject? Towards a Practice-Based Ethics of Responsiveness

Approaches to business ethics can be roughly divided into two streams: 'codes of behavior' and 'forms of subjectification', with code-oriented approaches clearly dominating the field. Through an elaboration of poststructuralist approaches to moral philosophy, this paper questions...

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Published in:Journal of business ethics Vol. 90; no. 2; pp. 265 - 277
Main Authors: Loacker, Bernadette, Muhr, Sara Louise
Format: Journal Article
Language:English
Published: Dordrecht Springer 01.12.2009
Springer Netherlands
Springer Nature B.V
Series:Journal of Business Ethics
Subjects:
Business Administration
Business and Management
Business Ethics
Codes
Corporate responsibility
Discourse ethics
Economics and Business
Education
Ekonomi och näringsliv
Elaboration
Ethical behavior
Ethical codes
Ethics
ethics of practice
Företagsekonomi
giving account
limits of responsibility
Management
Moral judgment
Morality
Openness
Organization theory
Philosophy
Poststructuralism
Quality of Life Research
Responsiveness
Rules
Samhällsvetenskap
Self
Social ethics
Social responsibility
Social Sciences
subjectification
Subjectivity
limits of responsibility
giving account
subjectification
ethics of practice
responsiveness
ISSN:0167-4544, 1573-0697, 1573-0697
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Summary:Approaches to business ethics can be roughly divided into two streams: 'codes of behavior' and 'forms of subjectification', with code-oriented approaches clearly dominating the field. Through an elaboration of poststructuralist approaches to moral philosophy, this paper questions the emphasis on codes of behaviour and, thus, the conceptions of the moral and responsible subject that are inherent in rule-based approaches. As a consequence of this critique, the concept of a practice-based 'ethics of responsiveness' in which ethics is never final but rather always 'to come', is investigated. In such an approach the ethical self is understood as being continuously constituted within power/knowledge relations. Following this line, we ask how one can become a responsible subject while also acknowledging certain limits of full responsibility. We thereby explore responsibility as a considered but unconditional openness in response to the other.
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ISSN:0167-4544
1573-0697
1573-0697
DOI:10.1007/s10551-009-0041-0