Ethics of Engagement in Research Practices. Response-ability in Organization and Management

The book asks how it would work to do research in organization and management in ways which are not only accountable (responsible) but also responsive (response-able). In dialogue with the Routledge Focus on Women Writers in Organization Studies series, this book honours the work of the ‘founding mothers’ of care theory and research who have contributed to developing the concept of response-ability - the capacity to respond and render each other capable to respond - in particular, Joan Tronto, Donna Haraway, Vinciane Despret, and Karen Barad. The chapters in this book entwine theory and practice in exploring the concept of response-ability by interlacing the contributions of such scholars, rather than treating them separately, and bringing them into organization and management studies. The authors in this book call for changes to the ways that research happens in terms of the ethical sensibilities which emanate from ‘becoming-with-others’ not only within a project-oriented timeframe but in everyday academic practices. The book is an invitation to students, researchers, and practitioners to find ways of embodying response-ability while engaging with multiple others in generating knowledge.