Bringing inequality back in: The economic inequality footprint of management and organizational practices

Riaz, Suhaib

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“…Economic inequality is a pivotal concern for business ethics insofar as organizational and management practices function as important conduits for creating, maintaining, and reifying the phenomenon (e.g. see Fotaki and Prasad 2015;Riaz 2015). Given that organizational and management practices are implicated in the propagation of economic inequality, scholars in the field have sought to identify paths for redress (Bapuji and Chrispal 2020;Rauf and Prasad 2020).…”

Section: Dawn Of the New Sociology Of Morality And Its Relevance To Bmentioning

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Opening Constructive Dialogues Between Business Ethics Research and the Sociology of Morality: Introduction to the Thematic Symposium

2020

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Over the last decade, scholars across the wide spectrum of the discipline of sociology have started to reengage with questions on morality and moral phenomena. The continued wave of research in this field, which has come to be known as the new sociology of morality, is a lively research program that has several common grounds with scholarship in the field of business ethics. The aim of this thematic symposium is to open constructive dialogues between these two areas of study. In this introductory essay, we briefly present the project of the new sociology of morality and discuss its relevance for business ethics. We also review the contributions to this thematic symposium and identify four specific domains where future research can contribute to fruitful dialogues between the two fields. Keywords Business ethics • Context • Morality • New sociology of morality • Sociology Moral phenomena-i.e. those related to evaluations of actions, actors, norms, and practices as right or wrong, good or bad, desirable or undesirable-constitute the primary sphere of interest for many disciplines and fields within cognitive, behavioral, and social sciences. While the most general explanations of human moral capacity are usually

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Section: Dawn Of the New Sociology Of Morality And Its Relevance To Bmentioning

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Opening Constructive Dialogues Between Business Ethics Research and the Sociology of Morality: Introduction to the Thematic Symposium

2020

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“…My analysis essentially highlights the need for more research on insensitive violence because one must not underplay the fact that systemic violence receives more focus. For example, van der Linden (2012) defines income inequality as a form of systemic violence, which receives significant attention as it poses a grand challenge for our societies (for example, see the recent works of Riaz, 2015; Riaz et al, 2016; Śliwa, 2007).…”

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Critical essay: (In)sensitive violence, development, and the smell of the soil: Strategic decision-making of what?

Chowdhury

2019

Human Relations

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Firms may commit aspects of violence in a sophisticated way. To this end, I argue that, as firms and their influential agents (e.g. government bodies and NGOs that often work as third parties and claim neutrality) participate in designing and performing violent activities under an influence of ideological beliefs, certain aspects of violence are difficult to trace. In other words, it is not always easy to point out exactly which powerful actors did what to result in violence such as injury and killing. Because of this limited traceability of actions, certain consequences of such violence remain invisible for a long period of time. However, such violence has devastating effects that go beyond the physical and mental harm suffered by the victim, affecting even the socio-emotional situations of marginalized people. Accordingly, I conceptualize a form of violence with limited traceability and invisible negative consequences, which is termed as insensitive violence. By doing so, I also discuss fundamental flaws of economic and human perspectives of development that encourage recursive use of insensitive violence at the expense of environmental damage and emotional degradation of marginalized communities.

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“…Joint analyses combining the macro and the organizational level are particularly rare (Amis et al 2018;Radoynovska 2018). While tools exist for the measurement of inequality and its social costs at the macro level, much less is known about how macro inequality affects organizations and how organizations contribute to macro inequality (Edwards 2015;Mair et al 2016;Riaz 2015). An article (Dunne et al 2017), discussing Piketty's influential work, argues that management and organizational scholars should 'contribute to the cross-disciplinary inequality research project which Capital in the 21 st Century proposes .…”

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What is organizational inequality? Why is it increasing as macroeconomic inequality increases?

Bernardi

Tridico

2020

Capital & Class

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Inequality has been increasing for decades in both rich and developing countries and the academic literature addressing it struggles to provide explanations, let alone solutions. This article is concerned with a relatively underexplored area, the relationship between macro-level inequality and organizational inequality. The core focus of the article is the recognition that the two phenomena are closely bound up one with the other. This is made possible by adopting Rousseau’s notion of inequality as hierarchy and willingness to accept subordination to authority and disparity of treatment. In doing so, we highlight similarities and dissimilarities between Rousseau and Marx. Inequality remains an issue of hierarchy at both the macro and organizational levels. As it was for Rousseau, so it is today but it is much more layered than in Rousseau’s day: inequality in society is the accepted degree of hierarchy among its members, inequality in the economy and at work is the extent to which, accepted or not, there is an imbalance of power, financial resources, remuneration of work and access to opportunities and services. The increase in inequality is due to a radical change in the socio-economic model of advanced economies. This change involves a shift towards financialization, a pressure on labour through flexibility, the decline of trade unions’ power and the retrenchment of public social spending.

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Bringing inequality back in: The economic inequality footprint of management and organizational practices

Cited by 42 publications

References 42 publications

Opening Constructive Dialogues Between Business Ethics Research and the Sociology of Morality: Introduction to the Thematic Symposium

Opening Constructive Dialogues Between Business Ethics Research and the Sociology of Morality: Introduction to the Thematic Symposium

Critical essay: (In)sensitive violence, development, and the smell of the soil: Strategic decision-making of what?

What is organizational inequality? Why is it increasing as macroeconomic inequality increases?

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