Organizations are increasingly the Subject of moral debates. The positioning of enterprises of
various sizes non-governmental organizations or public institutions is discussed and taken as
a basis for consumer client and political decisions in a broad scope of topics. While the
perspectives of customers organizations and further stakeholders on such developments have
been highlighted under the label of ethical consumption or vis-à-vis the fragility of
organizations the impact and effects on actors working in or for such organizations or
subcontractors have so far only been dealt with tangentially or left as a blank spot. This
volume turns its attention to the actors and organizational practices in order to trace the
effects of these discourses on everyday lives. Similarly the ethnographic case studies
collected in this volume explore the Extent to which everyday work life itself shapes
discourses on the negotiation of morality in the present.
