The spread of digital intimate partner violence: ethical challenges for business, workplaces, employers and management

In recent decades, huge technological changes have opened up possibilities and potentials for new socio-technological forms of violence, violation and abuse, themselves intersectionally gendered, that form part of and extend offline intimate partner violence (IPV). Digital IPV (DIPV) - the use of di...

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Published in:Journal of business ethics
Subtitles:"Special Issue on Intimate Partner Violence and Business - Exploring the Boundaries of Ethical Enquiry"
Authors: Hearn, Jeff 1947- (Author) ; Hall, Matthew (Author) ; Lewis, Ruth 1966- (Author) ; Niemistö, Charlotta (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Springer Science + Business Media B. V 2023
In: Journal of business ethics
Year: 2023, Volume: 187, Issue: 4, Pages: 695-711
Further subjects:B Ethics
B intimate partner violence (IPV)
B Feminism
B Gender dynamics at work
B Workplace policy on violence
B Aufsatz in Zeitschrift
B workplace violence
B gender-based violence
B Digital intimate partner violence (DIPV)
B Sexual Violence
B Information and communication technologies (ICTs)
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Summary:In recent decades, huge technological changes have opened up possibilities and potentials for new socio-technological forms of violence, violation and abuse, themselves intersectionally gendered, that form part of and extend offline intimate partner violence (IPV). Digital IPV (DIPV) - the use of digital technologies in and for IPV - takes many forms, including: cyberstalking, internet-based abuse, non-consensual intimate imagery, and reputation abuse. IPV is thus now in part digital, and digital and non-digital violence may merge and reinforce each other. At the same time, technological and other developments have wrought significant changes in the nature of work, such as the blurring of work/life boundaries and routine use of digital technologies. Building on feminist theory and research on violence, and previous research on the ethics of digitalisation, this paper examines the ethical challenges raised for business, workplaces, employers and management by digital IPV. This includes the ethical challenges arising from the complexity and variability of DIPV across work contexts, its harmful impacts on employees, productivity, and security, and the prospects for proactive ethical responses in workplace policy and practice for victim/survivors, perpetrators, colleagues, managers, and stakeholders. The paper concludes with contributions made and key issues for the future research agenda.
ISSN:1573-0697
Contains:Enthalten in: Journal of business ethics
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.1007/s10551-023-05463-4