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Towards a Post‐Dualistic Business Ethics: Interweaving Reason and Emotion in Working Life

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  • Rene ten Bos
  • Hugh Willmott

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We highlight and challenge the dominance of rationalist assumptions in business ethics that promote and legitimize a privileging of reason over emotion as a source of moral action. We ask whether it is possible for business ethics not only to challenge this hierarchy but to avoid its reversal. We start by exploring some origins of reason‐based ethics and relate these to ideas about organization. Here we hint at some popular examples of this kind of ethics and discuss two of its more important sources of inspiration: Kant and Weber. Next, we consider the relationship between bureaucracy and morality before evaluating Bauman’s ideas about morality in bureaucratic organizations. We argue that Bauman fails to challenge the dualism between reason and emotion as he inverts the hierarchical relationship between them. Contending that this hierarchization should be abandoned, we explore how the preceding discussion illuminates business ethics and address some consequences of our anti‐dualist position.

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  • Rene ten Bos & Hugh Willmott, 2001. "Towards a Post‐Dualistic Business Ethics: Interweaving Reason and Emotion in Working Life," Journal of Management Studies, Wiley Blackwell, vol. 38(6), pages 769-793, September.
    • Handle: RePEc:bla:jomstd:v:38:y:2001:i:6:p:769-793
    DOI: 10.1111/1467-6486.00258
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    1. Shadnam, Masoud, 2020. "Choosing whom to be: Theorizing the scene of moral reflexivity," Journal of Business Research, Elsevier, vol. 110(C), pages 12-23.

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