Value inquiry and constructing the good in organizations.

IF 4.9 1区管理学 Q1 MANAGEMENT

Organization Studies Pub Date : 2024-04-27 DOI:10.1177/01708406241253161

Gry Espedal, Arne Carlsen

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Abstract

Research has taken important steps towards establishing values work in organizations as a performative phenomenon situated in practice. Yet, researchers have said little about the critical and creative nature of such work, including how it may build its agentic powers more so from what is ethically absent than from what is established. We approach this void by drawing from Dewey’s Pragmatism in a comparative analysis of how three value-laden issues tied to companionate love are handled in a faith-based hospital. We develop the notion of value inquiry, which we understand as a discovery-oriented and transformative constructing of the good that takes its originating creative desires from troublesome situations. Our findings suggest that ethically fruitful value inquiry involves opening such situations in a way that critically examines previous practice, enlists people in co-defining needs and engages them in sustained experimental action. By theorizing value inquiry, we relocate ethical agency as a responsive relational capacity emerging with coactive power in evolving situations. Such emergence highlights the relational processes of work on values in organizations. When inquiring together, people move beyond attending to the use of prescriptive value conceptions and into a creative mode of actively searching for and co-constructing the good.

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组织中的价值探究和美好构建。

研究工作已经迈出了重要的一步，将组织中的价值观工作确立为实践中的一种表演现象。然而，研究人员对这种工作的批判性和创造性却知之甚少，包括它是如何从伦理缺失而非既定的东西中建立起自己的行动力的。我们从杜威的实用主义出发，对一家信仰医院如何处理与陪伴之爱相关的三个价值问题进行了比较分析，从而填补了这一空白。我们提出了 "价值探究 "这一概念，并将其理解为一种以发现为导向的、变革性的 "善 "的建构，这种建构从麻烦的处境中激发出创造性的欲望。我们的研究结果表明，在道德上富有成效的价值探究包括以批判性地审视以往实践的方式打开这种局面，让人们共同定义需求，并让他们参与持续的实验行动。通过将价值探究理论化，我们将伦理机构重新定位为一种在不断变化的情境中以合作力量出现的反应性关系能力。这种出现凸显了组织中价值观工作的关系过程。在共同探究的过程中，人们超越了对规范性价值概念的使用，进入了一种积极寻找和共同构建美好事物的创造性模式。

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Organization Studies MANAGEMENT-

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11.50

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16.70%

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期刊介绍： Organisation Studies (OS) aims to promote the understanding of organizations, organizing and the organized, and the social relevance of that understanding. It encourages the interplay between theorizing and empirical research, in the belief that they should be mutually informative. It is a multidisciplinary peer-reviewed journal which is open to contributions of high quality, from any perspective relevant to the field and from any country. Organization Studies is, in particular, a supranational journal which gives special attention to national and cultural similarities and differences worldwide. This is reflected by its international editorial board and publisher and its collaboration with EGOS, the European Group for Organizational Studies. OS publishes papers that fully or partly draw on empirical data to make their contribution to organization theory and practice. Thus, OS welcomes work that in any form draws on empirical work to make strong theoretical and empirical contributions. If your paper is not drawing on empirical data in any form, we advise you to submit your work to Organization Theory – another journal under the auspices of the European Group for Organizational Studies (EGOS) – instead.