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The Ethics of Shifting Ties: Management Theory and the Breakdown of Culture In Modernity

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  • Steven P. Feldman

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Despite a long tradition of documenting unethical practices in organizations, the sociology of organization literature has seldom addressed the question of management ethics. One early work in the field, Melville Dalton's Men Who Manage (1959), did develop a contingent approach to ethics that is seen as a precursor to contemporary discussions in modern and postmodern organization theory. In this essay, Dalton's work is interpreted in terms of a premodern or traditional view of moral theory. It is concluded that Dalton and those who have followed him have reduced morality to politics and have provided an intellectual rationale for the contemporary dark ages of moral behaviour with its worship of the cult of the individual.

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  • Steven P. Feldman, 1996. "The Ethics of Shifting Ties: Management Theory and the Breakdown of Culture In Modernity," Journal of Management Studies, Wiley Blackwell, vol. 33(3), pages 283-299, May.
    • Handle: RePEc:bla:jomstd:v:33:y:1996:i:3:p:283-299
    DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-6486.1996.tb00803.x
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    1. Barbara Townley, 2004. "Managerial Technologies, Ethics and Managing," Journal of Management Studies, Wiley Blackwell, vol. 41(3), pages 425-445, May.

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