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The age of responsibilization: on market-embedded morality
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This article explores emerging discursive formations concerning the relationship of business and morality. It suggests that contemporary tendencies to economize public domains and methods of government also dialectically produce tendencies to moralize markets in general and business enterprises in particular. The article invokes the concept of ‘responsibilization’ as means of accounting for the epistemological and practical consequences of such processes. Looking at the underlying ‘market rationality’ of governance, and critically examining the notion of ‘corporate social responsibility’, it concludes that the moralization of markets further sustains, rather than undermining, neo-liberal governmentalities and neo-liberal visions of civil society, citizenship and responsible social action.
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“Shamir (2008), calling it responsibilisation, discussed that this notion involves placing teachers at the forefront of accountability for outcomes beyond their direct control, such as students' achievements and overall school advancement.”
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“It may place undue burden on them by making them responsible for tasks they lack the mental, financial, temporal, etc. capabilities for ('responsibilization', [56]).”
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Metadata
- Authors
- Shamir, R.
- Corresponding author
- Shamir, Ronen
- ORCID
- Shamir, Ronen
- Venue
- Economy and Society
- Publisher
- Informa UK Limited
- Published
- 2008-02
- Volume
- 37
- Issue
- 1
- Pages
- 1-19
- ISSN
- 0308-5147 (ISSN-L)
- 1469-5766
- OpenAlex
- W2034306838
- Cited by
- 1,025
- References
- 81
- Citations by year
- 2026: 47 · 2025: 54 · 2024: 73 · 2023: 61 · 2022: 75 · 2021: 99 · 2020: 100 · 2019: 104 · 2018: 72 · 2017: 63 · 2016: 48 · 2015: 55 · 2014: 40 · 2013: 38 · 2012: 33
- FWCI
- 71.50
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- Economy and Society (publishedVersion, public-domain)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Sociology and Political Science › Foucault, Power, and Ethics
- Social Sciences › Political Science and International Relations › Globalization and political ideologies
- Social Sciences › Business, Management and Accounting › Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management › Corporate Social Responsibility and Sustainability
- Keywords
- responsibilization, market rationality, corporate social responsibility, neoliberalism, neoliberal governmentality, civil society, citizenship
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