Responsible management-as-practice: mobilizing a posthumanist approach

The emerging field of responsible management (RM) studies the integration of sustainability, responsibility, and ethics in managerial practices. Therefore, turning to practice theories for the study of RM appears to hold great promise of conceptual and methodological contribution. We propose a posth...

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Main Author: Gherardi, Silvia 1949- (Author)
Contributors: Laasch, Oliver
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: 2022
In: Journal of business ethics
Year: 2022, Volume: 181, Issue: 2, Pages: 269-281
Further subjects:B Responsible management-as-practice
B Situatedness
B Aufsatz in Zeitschrift
B Agencement
B Sociomateriality
B Responsible management
B Posthumanism
B Texture of practices
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Summary:The emerging field of responsible management (RM) studies the integration of sustainability, responsibility, and ethics in managerial practices. Therefore, turning to practice theories for the study of RM appears to hold great promise of conceptual and methodological contribution. We propose a posthumanist practice approach for studying RM-as-practice. Managerial practices are conceived as the agencement of heterogeneous elements (humans, nonhumans, more-than-humans, materials, and discourses) that achieve agency in their being interconnected. Thus, RM is understood as processual, relational, emergent, and sociomaterial. We contribute a framework for the empirical study of RM-as-practice on the basis of three sensitizing concepts: situatedness, sociomateriality, and textures. We further discuss the implications of understanding responsibility as response-ability, an engaged practice for relating to the other and the RM researcher’s role as internal to the practice agencement under study, thus, opening the debate on our own response-ability.
ISSN:1573-0697
Contains:Enthalten in: Journal of business ethics
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.1007/s10551-021-04945-7