With a background in the humanities and an eclectic bookshelf behind me, my eyes are firmly focused on innovative ways of managing organizations. the aim of my work is to stretch the organizational imagination of practitioners and scholars alike. PARAPHRASING ALBERT O. HIRSCHMAN, I AM interestED in what is possible - NOT WHATis probable.  

Moral Learning in Organizations: An Integrative Framework for Organizational Ethics

Organizations face a plethora of moral challenges. To address these challenges, they must develop the capacity for moral action. Drawing on pragmatist philosophy and, more specifically, on the concept of moral imagination, we theorize such organizational capacity building as moral learning. We propose three conceptual building blocks, which together form the framework for moral learning. First, we posit that morality may be anchored in concrete action rather than in general rules or principles. In particular, we suggest that the locus of morality may reside in action itself, and not predominantly in the inner motivations for action or the external consequences of action. Second, we hold that, by providing normative guidance, evaluation goes hand in hand with moral action. Such evaluation is related to a specific action rather than abstract values. In a third step, we suggest that moral learning represents a feedback loop between moral action and evaluation. This loop is embedded in an enabling ethical infrastructure, i.e., organizational structures, spaces, and technologies, which provide the necessary socio-material conditions for moral development and learning to occur. The value of our framework for moral learning is in its heuristic ability to render ethics in organizations both legible and practicable

Where Relational Commons Take Place: The City and its Social Infrastructure as Sites of Commoning