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Maintaining “Good” Care: An Articulation Work Perspective on Organizational Ethics in the Healthcare Sector

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  • Jean-Baptiste Suquet

    (Neoma Business School)

  • Damien Collard

    (Université de Franche-Comté)

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The literature on organizational ethics has paved the way for a situated and intersubjective understanding of ethics through caring practices. In this article, we try to extend this perspective by looking beyond the interactions of caregivers among themselves or with care seekers to reveal ethics as the ongoing collective accomplishment of a variety of actors. We do so by mobilizing Strauss’s theoretical perspective of articulation work in the context of healthcare. Based on an ethnography, we show how actors of care (e.g., nurses, caregivers, or doctors) operate within care arrangements that need to be frequently rearticulated to face ethical threats and protect their patients’ well-being. We distinguish three types of rearticulation corresponding to different degrees of rearticulation, individual actor stance, and specific ways of working things out. We discuss their implications for the maintenance of organizational ethics.

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  • Jean-Baptiste Suquet & Damien Collard, 2024. "Maintaining “Good” Care: An Articulation Work Perspective on Organizational Ethics in the Healthcare Sector," Journal of Business Ethics, Springer, vol. 194(3), pages 545-560, October.
    • Handle: RePEc:kap:jbuset:v:194:y:2024:i:3:d:10.1007_s10551-024-05616-z
    DOI: 10.1007/s10551-024-05616-z
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