Registering 'the Ethical' in Organization Theory Formation: Towards the Disclosure of an 'Invisible Force'

Organization Studies

Volumn 35, Issue 7, 2014, Pages 1013-1039

  Ezzamel, Mahmoud ^a,b   Willmott, Hugh ^a  

^a CARDIFF UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b IE BUSINESS SCHOOL   (Spain)

Author keywords

anthropocentricism; ecocentrism; epistemology; ethical register; knowledge production; ontology; organization science; theory formation

Indexed keywords

EID: 84902985497     PISSN: 01708406     EISSN: 17413044     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0170840614525324     Document Type: Article

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