Sub-theme 12: Being Good or Looking Good? Interrogating the Contradictions and Tensions in Organizational Ethics

Convenors:
Carl Rhodes, University of Technology Sydney, Australia
Alison Pullen, Macquarie University, Australia
Torkild Thanem, Stockholm University Business School, Sweden
Session I: Thursday, July 06, 11:00 to 12:30, SP 205 (2nd floor)
Alexandre Faria and Ana Guedes
Decolonizing the globalization of diversity management from the perspective of emerging countries and peoples
Kristin S. Williams and Albert Mills
The problem with women: A feminist interrogation of management textbooks
Alison Pullen and Sheena J. Vachhani
Leadership ethics and the feminine other
Session II: Thursday, July 06, 14:00 to 15:30, SP 205 (2nd floor)
Robert McMurray and Jenna Ward
Beyond rationalised justice: Claiming an ethics of care in the face of emotion
Joel Hietanen, Mikael Andéhn and Alice Wickström
Enjoying our repression: Machinic becoming and the limits of ethics
Carl Rhodes and Richard J. Badham
Ethical irony and the neccessary impossibility of a relational leadership ethics
Lloyd D. Gray
Making amends? The anesthesial logic of infinite justice in post-disciplinary organizing.
Session III: Friday, July 07, 09:00 to 10:30
- Parallel Stream -
Parallel Stream A: - Room: SP 205 (2nd floor)
Stefan Holgersson and Malin Wieslander
How aims of 'looking good' may limit the possibilities of 'being good': The case of the Swedish Police
Aurélien Feix
Greenwashing extended: Capturing the ideological imprint of CSR communication
Rasim Kurdoglu
Tracing Hayekian ideas in managerial and academic hypocrisy of fairness
Hakim Akeb, Karen Delchet-Cochet, Btissam Moncef and Linh Chi Vo
Muddling through the tension between ‘being good’ and ‘looking good’: The lived experience of micro-level actors
Parallel Stream B: - Room: SP 208 (2nd floor)
Ace Simpson
Integrating competing dimensions and tensions in organizational compassion: Selfless and strategic, individual and institutional
Emilie Reinhold
Embodied generosity in action
Tracy Wilcox
Domestic violence and organizational ethics
Session IV: Friday, July 07, 11:00 to 12:30
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Parallel Stream A: - Room: SP 205 (2nd floor)
Matthew Brannan
‘Feeling so good about being so bad’, adventures in the ethics of mis-selling
Janet Sayers
The tensions between ‘looking good’ and ‘being good’ experienced by complaint handling call centre workers
Anu Penttilä
Moral experiences of practitioners of organizational responsibility – Phenomenological perspective on everyday work
Wendelin M. Küpers
The role of embodied living ethos in relation to pathos and logos for integral ‘aesth-ethical’ and wise Practices in organisations
Parallel Stream B: - Room: SP 208 (2nd floor)
Ansgar Ødegård and Cecilia Salinas
Being good versus appearing good – CSR within different approaches
Wafa Ben Khaled, Anne-Laure Farjaudon and Benoît Gérard
Who has the last word? Legalists and non-legalists in the regulation of ethics in business
Beatriz Braga, Edson Keyso de Miranda Kubo, Steve McKenna, Eduardo Oliva, Julia Richardson and Terry Wales
Contradictions and tensions in the ethical decision-making process: Reflections from a study with HR professionals in Brazil
Laura Dobusch, Leonhard Dobusch and Katharina Kreissl
Approaching the "Good Organization": Comparing open, inclusive and alternative organizations
Session V: Friday, July 07, 14:00 to 15:30
- Parallel Stream -
Parallel Stream A: - Room: SP 205 (2nd floor)
Edward Barratt
Guarding bureaucratic ethics?
Jennifer H. Robinson
Bringing life back to work? A critique of organisational ethics seeking to ‘be good’ through the incorporation of religious and spiritual belief in contemporary Western contexts
Pauline Fatien, Renaud Defiebre-Muller and Federico Ignacio Viola
Towards an “ethics of serendipity”: Disrupting normative ethical discourses in organizations
Rachel Williams
Bittersweet charity: An investigation into the relationship between big pharma and depression awareness in the UK
Parallel Stream B: - Room: SP 208 (2nd floor)
Fahreen Alamgir and Ozan Nadir Alakavuklar
Encountering responsibility and the politics of ethics in the global supply chain
Benedikte Borgström
What is fair in the fair transport concept?
Torkild Thanem and Louise Wallenberg
The cost of looking good: Ethics and aesthetics in the fashion industry
Session VI: Saturday, July 08, 09:00 to 10:30, SP 205 (2nd floor)
Katie Beavan
Sleepless and inchoate in Boston: A performative auto/ethnography
Kenneth Mølbjerg Jørgensen
Stories, actions and ethics in organizations
Grace Ann Rosile and David M. Boje
Indigenous and storytelling aspects of being good and looking good
Session VII: Saturday, July 08, 11:00 to 12:30, SP 205 (2nd floor)
Kate Kenny and Alexis Bushnell
Truth or hegemony: The whistleblower as ethical subject
Iain Munro
The ethics of disorientation: Organizing against ‘fake news’