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Ethics, embodied life and esprit de corps : an ethnographic study with anti-money laundering analysts

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  • Mar Perezts

    (EM - EMLyon Business School)

  • Eric Faÿ
  • Sébastien Picard

Abstract

Our highly sensitive ethnographic study with anti-money-laundering analysts delves into the understudied link between embodiment and ethics in organizations. We begin by reclaiming the importance of bodies and embodiment in the business ethics literature, which largely assumes preeminence of the mind over the body. We then draw on French phenomenologist Michel Henry's theory of the subjective body to advance our understanding of ethics as endogenous embodied practice rooted in life. Through the experiential realities of our ethnographic work, we show how the two interrelated dimensions in which embodiment occurs (subjective body and organic body) operate at two interrelated levels (subjective and intersubjective experience) to advance theory on the implications of corporeal ethics in organizations. More specifically, by reclaiming and specifying the ontologically embodied and shared dimensions of ethical subjectivity in life, we show the emergence and development of an esprit de corps, which allows embodying collective ethical practice while resisting to continuous external pressures.

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  • Mar Perezts & Eric Faÿ & Sébastien Picard, 2015. "Ethics, embodied life and esprit de corps : an ethnographic study with anti-money laundering analysts," Post-Print hal-02313280, HAL.
    • Handle: RePEc:hal:journl:hal-02313280
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    1. Anna‐Liisa Kaasila‐Pakanen, 2021. "Close encounters: Creating embodied spaces of resistance to marginalization and disempowering representation of difference in organization," Gender, Work and Organization, Wiley Blackwell, vol. 28(5), pages 1805-1822, September.
    2. Géraldine Paring & Stéphan Pezé, 2022. "Managerial Control of Employees’ Intercorporeality and the Production of Unethical Relations," Journal of Business Ethics, Springer, vol. 180(2), pages 393-406, October.
    3. Emmanouela Mandalaki & Mar Pérezts, 2022. "It takes two to tango : Theorizing inter-corporeality through nakedness and eros in researching and writing organizations," Post-Print hal-02944194, HAL.
    4. Mollie Painter & Mar Pérezts & Ghislain Deslandes, 2021. "Understanding the human in stakeholder theory : a phenomenological approach to affect-based learning," Post-Print hal-03188192, HAL.
    5. Silvia Gherardi & Oliver Laasch, 2022. "Responsible Management-as-Practice: Mobilizing a Posthumanist Approach," Journal of Business Ethics, Springer, vol. 181(2), pages 269-281, November.

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