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Humanizing Business by Developing a Feminist Ethics of Embodied Relational Care

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This chapter draws on feminist theories, and specifically the idea of feminist ethics, to propose embodied relational care based on interconnectedness, cohabitation and compassion for each other. Τaking inspiration from feminist thinking, it offers an eclectic proposal for a new ethics for management concerned with the situatedness of embodied ethics, interdependency and relational care. It specifically applies the feminist politics of emancipation to develop an ethics of relationality to rethink issues of equality and inclusivity in the business context. It also offers non-hegemonic notion care, as a political and ontological condition that emerges from this interdependency, for better understanding and addressing the inequalities that current business practices re(produce) in organizations and society.

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Fotaki, M. (2022). Humanizing Business by Developing a Feminist Ethics of Embodied Relational Care. In: Dion, M., Freeman, R.E., Dmytriyev, S.D. (eds) Humanizing Business. Issues in Business Ethics, vol 53. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-72204-3_4

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