Business Ethics as Ideology

L’éthique des affaires en tant qu’idéologie

Hugo Letiche ()
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Hugo Letiche: LITEM - Laboratoire en Innovation, Technologies, Economie et Management (EA 7363) - UEVE - Université d'Évry-Val-d'Essonne - Université Paris-Saclay - IMT-BS - Institut Mines-Télécom Business School - IMT - Institut Mines-Télécom [Paris], Business University Nyenrode - Nyenrode Business Universiteit, IMT-BS - DEFI - Département Droit, Économie et Finances - TEM - Télécom Ecole de Management - IMT - Institut Mines-Télécom [Paris] - IMT-BS - Institut Mines-Télécom Business School - IMT - Institut Mines-Télécom [Paris]

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Abstract: In The Ungovernable Society; A Genealogy of Authoritarian Liberalism (2021) [La société ingouvernable (2018)] Grégoire Chamayou makes the claim that business ethics has served as an ideological smoke screen for globalized hyper-capitalism. Business ethics has fostered ‘knowledge' in the service of power and supported generalized obedience to managerial prerogatives. Instead of applying moral philosophy to business, it has created an ideology of entrepreneurship, TINA profit maximization and share-holder value. Academics, and business supported thinktanks, paved the way for neo-liberal hegemony. Chamayou claims that his study is a genealogy in Foucault's tradition. First, I will summarize his position; and second, I will contest his methodological claim. Whatever the merit of his attack on business ethics, Chamayou I will argue, has not produced a genealogical text, nor are his claims to be defended from a Foucaultian position. Chamayou calls out ‘fire' in the theater of business ethics; but his own text is methodologically just as mythic and ideological (i.e. tendentious) as the texts he attacks.

Keywords: Grégoire Chamayou; Foucaultian genealogy; CMS; Business Ethics; Neo-con ideology; Généalogie foucaldienne; Ethique des affaires; Idéologie néo-conservatrice (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2023-06-23
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Published in Revue interdisciplinaire droit et organisations, 2023, 5, pp.101-114. ⟨10.34699/rido.2023.26⟩

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DOI: 10.34699/rido.2023.26

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