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Redefining organizational ethics through the lens of life-and-death

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  • M. Perezts
  • M. Fotaki
  • Y. Shymko

    (Audencia Business School)

  • G. Gazi Islam

Abstract

We share the world we live and die in with others, in ways that are organized and disorganized. The authors of this special issue address life-and-death as a compound term, foregrounding the vital and deadly outcomes of (dis)organization and their (business) ethics implications as they play out in the context of growing inequalities and ongoing health, geopolitical, environmental, refugee crises and egregious war crimes. Organizations and organizing can shape such contexts by engaging in the ethics of care and politics of inclusivity, redefining "essential" or "front line" work, managing relationships between bodily health and work, or ethically relating to non-human forms of life. Considering the roles of organizations in terms of life-and-death can help scholars redefine organizations and/in/for/with the world by stressing the ethical dimensions of organizing for life which involves human and other-than-human relatedness and the obligation of care for all forms of life.

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  • M. Perezts & M. Fotaki & Y. Shymko & G. Gazi Islam, 2025. "Redefining organizational ethics through the lens of life-and-death," Post-Print hal-05490231, HAL.
    • Handle: RePEc:hal:journl:hal-05490231
    DOI: 10.1017/beq.2025.10098
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