Journal of Business Ethics Special Issue: Disaggregating Corporate Politics through Political Work: Implications for Business Ethics – Pre-Submission Workshop – October 29, 2024, Abstract Deadline
Dear OMT Colleagues:
Corporations provide a context for a myriad of stakeholders to politically shape and contest corporate decisions and practices. The recognition that a diversity of individuals is doing the 'political work' helps us minimize the risk of reifying such activities, of simply attributing them to some 'faceless corporation'. Moreover, this recognition reveals that the individuals engaged in political work can be exposed to ethical dilemmas and opportunities as they navigate an increasingly complex and personalized landscape of corporate politics. Some of the most pressing ethical dilemmas in corporate political work stem from polarizing societal challenges and challenge the ways that scholars have traditionally conceptualized the intersection between business and politics.
We call for papers that that set out to disaggregate corporate politics by unpacking how (groups of) individuals in- and outside corporations seek to manage, express, and negotiate their own political and ethical identity through corporate political work. Our aim is to bring corporations into the realm of ideologies and ideas around (re-)distribution, values and cultures, and political communities. We seek papers that develop a nuanced understanding about how recent political trends have evolved, and are shaped by, some of the ethical challenges that corporations as contexts for political work may incur and/or inflict.
PAPER DEVELOPMENT WORKSHOP (abstracts due 29 October 2024):
We are inviting abstracts that fit the special issue call to be submitted to a workshop that will be held on 19 November 2024. The workshop will take place over two hours and will involve the special issue editors communicating about the aims of the issue and giving feedback on participants' ideas for papers. The exact time will be informed by the time-zone of the participants and editors and communicated after acceptance.
Presentation of a paper idea at the workshop is not a precondition for submission to the Special Issue nor is selection for the workshop any guarantee for publication in the Special Issue. More information on the workshop can be obtained from the guest editors.
Authors are encouraged to submit an abstract of up to 1500-2000 words (excluding references) and send it directly to
omv.msc@cbs.dk. Please also note your time zone.
The abstract should clearly indicate the main argument(s) and contribution(s), the literatures that the piece intends to contribute to, the research design (if relevant) and how it fits within the aim of the Special Issue.
The deadline for submissions is 29 October 2024, and authors will be notified of acceptance to the workshop by Friday, 1 November 2024.
Guest Editors
Onna Malou van den Broek
Laura Olkonen
Tazeeb Rajwani
Kathleen Rehbein
Frank de Bakker