Ethics as Critical Practice: The "Pentagon Papers", Deciding Responsibly, Truth-telling, and the Unsettling of Organizational Morality

Organization Studies

Volumn 34, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 469-493

  Weiskopf, Richard ^a   Willmott, Hugh ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF INNSBRUCK   (Austria)

^b CARDIFF UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Derrida; Ellsberg; ethics; Foucault; parrhesia; practice theory; whistleblowing

Indexed keywords

EID: 84876111929     PISSN: 01708406     EISSN: 17413044     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0170840612470256     Document Type: Article

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