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creators_name: Perezts, Mar
creators_name: Fay, Eric
creators_name: Picard, Sébastien
creators_id: sebastien.picard@iae-toulouse.fr
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title: Ethics, embodied life and esprit de corps: An ethnographic study with anti-money laundering analysts
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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
date: 2015
date_type: published
publisher: Sage
id_number: 10.1177/1350508414558726
official_url: http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1350508414558726
faculty: gestion
divisions: CRM
keywords: Banking compliance
keywords: esprit-de-corps
keywords: business-ethics-as-practice
keywords: ethnography
keywords: embodied ethics
keywords: Michel Henry
keywords: phenomenology of life
language: en
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doi: 10.1177/1350508414558726
view_date_year: 2015
full_text_status: none
publication: Organization
volume: 22
number: 2
pagerange: 217-234
refereed: TRUE
issn: 1350-5084
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citation:   Perezts, Mar <https://www.idref.fr/191670693>, Fay, Eric <https://www.idref.fr/06690594X> and Picard, Sébastien <https://www.idref.fr/241586917>  (2015) Ethics, embodied life and esprit de corps: An ethnographic study with anti-money laundering analysts.    Organization, 22 (2).  pp. 217-234.