Business Ethics Quarterly Special Issue on: Organizational Ethics of Life and Death

Abstract

Albert Einstein, Letter of October 1944 to Mrs. Born, in J. Berger Photocopies: Encounters (1997: 72) Guest Editors Mar Pérezts, Emlyon Business School;OCE Research Centre Marianna Fotaki, Warwick Business School Yuliya Shymko, Audencia Business School Gazi Islam, Grenoble Ecole de Management;IREGE Overview A fundamental question of organizational ethics revolves around how life and death are collectively organized (Elias, 1985;Agamben, 1998). [...]as organizational ethics scholars, we must examine how our ideas operate within complex social and natural worlds, for what ends, and which support they render to different forms of being and of living. The impact of dominant organizational paradigms varies across social groups and non-human forms of life, leading to new inequalities and amplifying pre-existing ones across geographical and political differences (Biehl, 2005;Bauman, 2014;Fotaki & Prasad, 2015). In line with the disciplinary and thematic scope of the Business Ethics Quarterly, we invite scholars from a variety of perspectives to consider the roles of (business) organizations and organizing in the ethics of life and death, as it plays out in light of growing inequalities and recent global phenomena such as the COVID-19 pandemic, Black Lives Matter, refugee crises, the rise of authoritarianism, global political conflicts, wars, and climate change.