TY - JOUR
T1 - The age of responsibilization
T2 - On market-embedded morality
AU - Shamir, Ronen
PY - 2008/2
Y1 - 2008/2
N2 - This article explores emerging discursive formations concerning the relationship of business and morality. It suggests that contemporary tendencies to economize public domains and methods of government also dialectically produce tendencies to moralize markets in general and business enterprises in particular. The article invokes the concept of 'responsibilization' as means of accounting for the epistemological and practical consequences of such processes. Looking at the underlying 'market rationality' of governance, and critically examining the notion of 'corporate social responsibility', it concludes that the moralization of markets further sustains, rather than undermining, neo-liberal governmentalities and neo-liberal visions of civil society, citizenship and responsible social action.
AB - This article explores emerging discursive formations concerning the relationship of business and morality. It suggests that contemporary tendencies to economize public domains and methods of government also dialectically produce tendencies to moralize markets in general and business enterprises in particular. The article invokes the concept of 'responsibilization' as means of accounting for the epistemological and practical consequences of such processes. Looking at the underlying 'market rationality' of governance, and critically examining the notion of 'corporate social responsibility', it concludes that the moralization of markets further sustains, rather than undermining, neo-liberal governmentalities and neo-liberal visions of civil society, citizenship and responsible social action.
KW - Business ethics
KW - Capitalism
KW - Citizenship
KW - Corporate social responsibility
KW - Governance
KW - Neo-liberalism
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=38349176323&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1080/03085140701760833
DO - 10.1080/03085140701760833
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AN - SCOPUS:38349176323
SN - 0308-5147
VL - 37
SP - 1
EP - 19
JO - Economy and Society
JF - Economy and Society
IS - 1
ER -