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Tractable Morality

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This article discusses five propositions about managerial moral tractability -- that is, a morality that is amenable to the complexity of managers’ continual pressure to decide and act -- in their customer relations. The propositions come from the comparison of three case studies of different types of managers. To analyze the morality of managers, discursive practices of managers are studied. At the end of the article also some consideration is given to “information strategies” of managers, in relation to their tractable morality.

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  1. Department of Public Administration and Organization Science, Faculty of Social Sciences, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, De Boelelaan, 1081, Amsterdam, HV, The Netherlands

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  2. Rotterdam School of Management, Erasmus University Rotterdam, The Netherlands

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Gjalt de Graaf received his Ph.D. at the Rotterdam School of Management of the Erasmus University Rotterdam. He worked for two years as an assistant professor ‘‘strategic management” at the Faculty of Economics and Business Studies of the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam. Currently he works as a post-doc “Integrity of Governance” at the Faculty of Social Sciences of the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam.

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de Graaf, G. Tractable Morality. J Bus Ethics 60, 1–15 (2005). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10551-005-5840-3

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