Bring your non-self to work?: the interaction between self-decentralization and moral reasoning
Spirituality continues to exert a strong influence in people’s lives both in work and beyond. However, given that spirituality is often non-formalized and personal, we continue to know little about how moral reasoning is strategized. In this paper, we examine how Buddhist leader-practitioners interp...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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2022
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Journal of business ethics
Year: 2022, Volume: 181, Issue: 2, Pages: 427-449 |
| Further subjects: | B
Buddhism
B Aufsatz in Zeitschrift B Non-self B Emptiness B Moral Reasoning |
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| Summary: | Spirituality continues to exert a strong influence in people’s lives both in work and beyond. However, given that spirituality is often non-formalized and personal, we continue to know little about how moral reasoning is strategized. In this paper, we examine how Buddhist leader-practitioners interpret and operationalize a process of self-decentralization based upon Buddhist emptiness theory as a form of moral reasoning. We find that Buddhist leader-practitioners share a common understanding of a self-decentralized identity and operationalize self-decentralization through two practices in Buddhist philosophy - skillful means and the middle way - to foreground social outcomes. However, we also find that practitioners face tensions and challenges in moral reasoning relates to agency - the ‘re-centering’ of the self as an enlightened self and the use of karmic reasoning to justify (un)ethical behavior - and contextual constraints that lead to feelings of vulnerability and exclusion. We present a model that elaborates these processes and invite further research that examines novel approaches and dynamic interpretations of the self in moral reasoning. |
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| ISSN: | 1573-0697 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Journal of business ethics
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1007/s10551-021-04975-1 |