Opening Constructive Dialogues Between Business Ethics Research and the Sociology of Morality: Introduction to the Thema
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Opening Constructive Dialogues Between Business Ethics Research and the Sociology of Morality: Introduction to the Thematic Symposium Masoud Shadnam1 · Andrey Bykov2,3 · Ajnesh Prasad4,5 Received: 27 August 2020 / Accepted: 26 September 2020 © Springer Nature B.V. 2020
Abstract 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 * Masoud Shadnam [email protected] Andrey Bykov [email protected] Ajnesh Prasad [email protected] 1
Department of Organizational Behaviour, Human Resources, and Management, School of Business, MacEwan University, 10700 ‑ 104 Avenue, Edmonton, Alberta T5J 4S2, Canada
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HSE University, Myasnitskaya Ulitsa, 11, Moscow 101000, Russia
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Institute of Sociology of the Federal Center of Theoretical and Applied Sociology of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Krzhizhanovskogo Street, 24/35, korpus 5, Moscow 117218, Russia
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EGADE Business School, Tecnologico de Monterrey, Carlos Lazo 100, 03189 Mexico City, Mexico
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School of Business, Royal Roads University, 2005 Sooke Road, Victoria, BC V9B 5Y2, Canada
associated with the recent advances of evolutionary biology and psychology (Haidt 2008), these perspectives, important as they are, can hardly provide scholars with a comprehensive picture of moral life, as the latter is based not only on the universal and innate cognitive and emotional mechanisms, but is also imminently situated in diverse forms of social relations. Among these forms, the role of business and organizational relations is still relatively under-represented within the multidisciplinary science of morality (Abend 2013, 2014). Despite the contributions found in few classic works by Dalton (1959) and Jackall (1988) as well as some nascent works building upon French pragmatic sociology (Boltanski and Thévenot 1999, 2006), we still lack a sufficient and thoroughly sophisticated account of the
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