Responsibility: Hans Jonas and the ethics of business

It is a widely accepted idea that all great philosophers were basically interested in just one central question. What is God? What is power? What is being? Spinoza asked the first question and found out that God equals nature. The second question was asked by Nietzsche and his answer was that there is a close connection between power and desire. The final question was asked by Heidegger and he maintained that we all precisely forgot to ask this all-important question: what is being? It is the kind of question that oozes from every single page of these philosophers and in the end it rises as an immense nebula of meaning from the entire oeuvre. You only have to hear the names of the philosophers who are involved to know that they asked this single question, their question

Introduction: Polyphony and Organization Studies. Mikhail Bakhtin and beyond

In this editorial we introduce the work of Mikhail Bakhtin and his concept of polyphony, and discuss ways in which polyphony has been interpreted and applied in organization studies. It is important to appreciate that two streams seem to emerge in this body of work: the use of polyphony as a textual strategy in writing research narratives and as a tool for analysing organizations as discursive spaces where heterogeneous and multiple voices engage in a contest for audibility and power. We conclude this editorial by briefly introducing each of the papers in this themed section