A crisis of leadership : towards an anti-sovereign ethics of organisation Wray-Bliss, Edward 2013, A crisis of leadership : towards an anti-sovereign ethics of organisation, Business ethics, vol. 22, no. 1, pp. 86-101, doi: 10.1111/beer.12010. Attached Files Name Description MIMEType Size Downloads Title A crisis of leadership : towards an anti-sovereign ethics of organisation Author(s) Wray-Bliss, Edward Journal name Business ethics Volume number 22 Issue number 1 Start page 86 End page 101 Total pages 16 Publisher Wiley - Blackwell Publishing Place of publication Chichester, England Publication date 2013-01 ISSN 0962-8770 1467-8608 Keyword(s) crisis of leadership ethics business ethics Levinasian ethico-politics of responsibility Summary A common reaction to crises experienced within or brought about by business is to identify a corollary ‘crisis of leadership’ and to call for better (stronger, more thoughtful or, indeed, more ethical and responsible) leaders. This paper supports the idea that there is a crisis of leadership – but interprets it quite differently. Specifically, I argue that the most ethically debilitating crisis is the fact that we look to leadership to solve organisational ethical ills. There is, I argue, a pressing need to conceptualise a business ethics that is not constrained by the straitjacket of official hierarchy – a need to denaturalise ‘leadership’ as the normal or rightful locus of ethical regulation and renewal in business organisation. To this end, I explore a Levinasian ethico-politics of responsibility and proximity as the basis of an alternative, anti-sovereign, ethics of organisation. Language eng DOI 10.1111/beer.12010 Field of Research 150310 Organisation and Management Theory Socio Economic Objective 910402 Management HERDC Research category C1 Refereed article in a scholarly journal ERA Research output type C Journal article Persistent URL http://hdl.handle.net/10536/DRO/DU:30052143 Document type: Journal Article Collections: Faculty of Business and Law School of Management and Marketing Related Links Link Description Connect to published version (restricted access) Go to link with your DU access privileges     Unless expressly stated otherwise, the copyright for items in DRO is owned by the author, with all rights reserved. Versions Version Filter Type Fri, 26 Apr 2013, 14:42:37 EST Sun, 28 Apr 2013, 21:44:23 EST Tue, 30 Apr 2013, 10:53:48 EST Tue, 30 Apr 2013, 11:04:41 EST Fri, 13 Jun 2014, 17:13:20 EST Tue, 03 Feb 2015, 13:28:25 EST Filtered Full Citation counts:   Cited 15 times in TR Web of Science Cited 19 times in Scopus Search Google Scholar Access Statistics: 245 Abstract Views, 5 File Downloads  -  Detailed Statistics Created: Fri, 26 Apr 2013, 14:42:24 EST by Aysun Alpyurek