The Ethics of Sustainability in Management by Mølbjerg Jørgensen, Kenneth;

Storymaking in Organizations

Series: Routledge Studies in Management, Organizations and Society;

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Edition number 1
Publisher Routledge
Date of Publication 30 July 2025

ISBN 9781032655703
Binding Paperback
No. of pages178 pages
Size 229x152 mm
Weight 330 g
Language English
Illustrations 4 Illustrations, black & white; 4 Line drawings, black & white; 2 Tables, black & white

Short description:

There has not been any comprehensive framework that addresses sustainability in organizations and so this book develops a new ethics of sustainability for management and organizations.

Long description:

Organizational storytelling has been taught for many years in many different places as part of organizational development, organizational change, organizational learning, and business ethics. There has not been any comprehensive framework that addresses sustainability in organizations and so this book develops a new ethics of sustainability for management and organizations. A terrestrial ethics of storymaking is proposed, which responds to Latour’s claim that the Terrestrial has become a new decisive political actor in politics. The Terrestrial is born from Gaia, a metaphor for a new look on life on Earth. Gaia situates life in the thin layer of matter that is the surface of the Earth. It entails the view that nature is a process that humans are part of. Storymaking is constructed from Arendt’s political philosophy, which is rooted ontologically in the principle of natality: rebirth of life. The term ‘storymaking’ is developed from Arendt’s understanding of storytelling as political action to emphasize not only that stories are spatial, embodied and material practices that are tied to a specific time and space but also that technology is an important dimension in making stories. Stories are thus human practices that apart from meaning making and politics involve the use and manipulation of material and objects, and which are crucial for how a human world is shaped. This human world is furthermore shaped by the rhythms of life embedded in the complex landscapes that humans move through. Storymaking is developed through rethinking the links between the central categories of labor, work, action, and thinking in Arendt’s writings. Implications for business ethics are drawn out and a comprehensive ethics framework is constructed that connects the biological and physical with the social, economic, and political regarding how organizations work. Finally, a storymaking philosophy of management is constructed, making this book especially relevant to researchers, academics, managers, and students in the fields of business ethics, management studies, leadership, organizational studies, and international business.

Chapter 1: the Ethics of Sustainability in Management: Storymaking in Organizations Chapter 2: Sustainability: Three Narratives and Six Images Chapter 3: Foundations of a Terrestrial Ethics—a Gaian Map of Reorientation Chapter 4: Storymaking as a Process of Life Chapter 5: Storymaking as a Rhythmic Practice—Place, Space, and Materiality in Managing Chapter 6: Living Life as a Story: Aesthetics, Spatialization, and Freedom Chapter 7: Living Life Truthfully: The Relations Between Thinking and Conscience Chapter 8: Storymaking as a Philosophy of Managing