Ethics as critical practice: the "Pentagon Papers", deciding responsibly, truth-telling, and the unsettling of organizational morality

Weiskopf, Richard and Willmott, Hugh ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1321-7041 2013. Ethics as critical practice: the "Pentagon Papers", deciding responsibly, truth-telling, and the unsettling of organizational morality. Organization Studies 34 (4) , pp. 469-493. 10.1177/0170840612470256

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Abstract

This paper contributes to the development of a practice-based understanding of ethics. Ethics is here conceived as a critical practice of questioning and problematizing moral orders and moral rules-in-use in which subjects (re)define their relations to self and others. Situating this conception of ethics in the context of practice theory, we draw upon ideas of responsible decision-making (Derrida) and truth-telling (Foucault) to examine Daniel Ellsberg’s leaking of the "Pentagon Papers" as illustrative of ethics as critical practice.

Item Type:	Article
Date Type:	Publication
Status:	Published
Schools:	Schools > Business (Including Economics)
Subjects:	H Social Sciences > H Social Sciences (General) H Social Sciences > HD Industries. Land use. Labor > HD28 Management. Industrial Management
Uncontrolled Keywords:	Derrida; Ellsberg; ethics; Foucault; parrhesia; practice theory; whistleblowing
Publisher:	Sage
ISSN:	0170-8406
Last Modified:	21 Oct 2022 10:41
URI:	https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/id/eprint/41025

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