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Rogue Logics: Organization in the Grey Zone

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posted on 2023-08-30, 15:07 authored by Chris Land, Scott Loren, Joerg Metelmann
This paper explores the concept of the ‘rogue’ through an examination of how the figure appears in business ethics and as the rogue trader. Reading the rogue trader through institutional logics and Jacques Derrida’s book Rogues, we suggest that the rogue is not on the dark side of organization so much as in an indeterminate grey zone, where the boundary between acceptable behaviour and misconduct is unclear. We further argue that this boundary is necessarily unclear as it is in the nature of organization, at least within capitalist trading systems, to push the boundaries of what is possible and acceptable. The rogue thus helps produce the boundaries of ethically acceptable organizational behaviour in the very act of transgressing them. The location-bound specificity of the rogue, as well as the symbolic process of naming an individual or a state a rogue finds a relevant correlate in the villain, as Derrida suggests. But what we call ‘rogue organization’ may be constitutive of organization per se. As such, there is a potential roguishness in organization that should be addressed when considering the dark side of ethics in organization studies.

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Refereed

  • Yes

Volume

35

Issue number

2

Page range

233-253

Publication title

Organization Studies

ISSN

1741-3044

Publisher

SAGE

File version

  • Accepted version

Language

  • eng

Legacy posted date

2018-06-05

Legacy creation date

2018-06-05

Legacy Faculty/School/Department

ARCHIVED Lord Ashcroft International Business School (until September 2018)

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