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The literature on embodied ethics in organizational theory has developed in response to the limitations identified in traditional approaches to business ethics, which are viewed as procedural and as overlooking the agency of actors. Breaking with a cognitivist paradigm, embodied ethics argues that bodily experience conditions the emergence of ethical judgement within organizations. Despite their contributions, however, these works contain certain paradoxes, particularly with regard to the status of the body and its physical limits within an organization. We propose to solve some of these conceptual difficulties by drawing on the relational ontology of the body developed by the French philosopher Jean- Luc Nancy. We will argue that a radically embodied organizational ethics is possible, thereby subverting the representation and role typically assigned to the body in management.