RT Journal Article
SR 00
ID 10.1177/1350508414558726
A1 Perezts, Mar
A1 Fay, Eric
A1 Picard, Sébastien
T1 Ethics, embodied life and esprit de corps: An ethnographic study with anti-money laundering analysts
JF Organization
YR 2015
FD 2015
VO 22
IS 2
SP 217
OP 234
K1 Banking compliance
K1 esprit-de-corps
K1 business-ethics-as-practice
K1 ethnography
K1 embodied ethics
K1 Michel Henry
K1 phenomenology of life
AB 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
PB Sage
SN 1350-5084
LK https://publications.ut-capitole.fr/id/eprint/16787/
UL http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1350508414558726