Organizational Care Ethics in Times of Geopolitical Crises : A Feminist Perspective
Cassinger, Cecilia LU
and Porzionato, Monica
LU
(2025)
p.203-220
- Abstract
This chapter examines how multinational corporations communicatively navigate moral responsibility during geopolitical crises, focusing on the war in Ukraine. As corporations increasingly are expected to engage with social and political issues, their actions, or inactions, are interpreted as moral stances. We contend that a feminist ethics of care offers a compelling approach through which to understand how organizations justify their actions in complex crisis. Unlike conventional ethics, which are grounded in universal principles, feminist care ethics emphasizes vulnerability, relationality, interdependence, and contextual moral reasoning. From this viewpoint, ethical responsibility becomes an ongoing, situated practice rooted in the... (More)
This chapter examines how multinational corporations communicatively navigate moral responsibility during geopolitical crises, focusing on the war in Ukraine. As corporations increasingly are expected to engage with social and political issues, their actions, or inactions, are interpreted as moral stances. We contend that a feminist ethics of care offers a compelling approach through which to understand how organizations justify their actions in complex crisis. Unlike conventional ethics, which are grounded in universal principles, feminist care ethics emphasizes vulnerability, relationality, interdependence, and contextual moral reasoning. From this viewpoint, ethical responsibility becomes an ongoing, situated practice rooted in the well-being of those affected by organizational actions. Through case studies of communicative responses to geopolitical crises, we examine how organizations employ care to justify their actions and how they negotiate ethical contradictions across diverse stakeholder groups. Ultimately, we advocate a relational and situated approach to organizational ethics that recognizes the evolving and contested nature of moral responsibility in times of crisis.
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- author
- Cassinger, Cecilia
LU
and Porzionato, Monica
LU
- organization
- publishing date
- 2025-01-01
- type
- Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding
- publication status
- published
- subject
- keywords
- Care ethics, organisational communication, crisis communication, feminist theory, geopolitical conflict
- host publication
- Communicating in the Face of Global Crises : Organization, Strategy, and ‘Doing the Right Thing’ - Organization, Strategy, and ‘Doing the Right Thing’
- editor
- McClellan, John G. ; Cassinger, Cecilia ; Penttilä, Visa and Porzionato, Monica
- pages
- 18 pages
- publisher
- Taylor & Francis
- external identifiers
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- scopus:105026231048
- ISBN
- 9781032997285
- 9781040540046
- DOI
- 10.4324/9781003605720-15
- language
- English
- LU publication?
- yes
- id
- 89b5a18e-140a-445b-8da0-645c921dacca
- date added to LUP
- 2025-07-03 14:39:05
- date last changed
- 2026-02-26 15:32:50
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