Prof. Minka Woermann

Associate Professor

minka@sun.ac.za

Minka Woermann​ (PhD) is an Associate Professor in the Department of Philosophy, Director of the Centre for Applied Ethics, Head of the Unit for Business Ethics and Public Integrity, and Vice-Chair of the Social and Business Ethics Committee of Council.

Her research interests include business ethics, post-structural (French) philosophy, critical complexity theory, moral theory, and art philosophy. She is currently pursuing a second PhD in Visual Arts, which focuses on the phenomenology of creative flow experiences.

Publications

Monographs

• Woermann, M. 2016. Bridging Complexity and Post-Structuralism: Insights and Implications. Switzerland: Springer International, 205 pp.
• Woermann, M. 2013. On the (Im)Possibility of Business Ethics: Critical Complexity, Deconstruction, and Implications for Understanding the Ethics of Business. Dordrecht: Springer, 175 pp.

Selected Journal articles

• Woermann, M. 2020. Postcolonial thinking and modes of being with others. Etica & Politica / Ethics & Politics, 22(3): 833-848.
• Mancilla-Garcia, M., Herz, T., Schlüter, M., Preiser, R., Woermann, M. 2020. Adopting process-relational perspectives to tackle the challenges of social-ecological systems research. Ecology and Society, (25)1: art. 29.
• Woermann, M. and Engelbrecht, S. 2019. The Ubuntu challenge to business: From stakeholders to relationholders. Journal of Business Ethics, 157(1): 27-44.
• Woermann, M. and Cilliers, P. 2012. The ethics of complexity and the complexity of ethics. South African Journal of Philosophy, 31(2): 447 – 463.

Selected book chapters (peer-reviewed)

• Woermann, M. 2024. Monumental transformations and the re-membering of meaning. In J.S. Sanni and M.Z. Phiri (eds.). Monuments and Memory in Africa: Reflections on Coloniality and Decoloniality. Taylor and Francis (Routledge).
• Woermann, M. 2022. Towards an African business ethics: Past contributions and future challenges and possibilities. In L.C. Rodrigues and J. Chimakonam (eds.). Key Concepts in African Ethics. London: Bloomsbury.
• Preiser, R. and Woermann, M. 2019. Complexity, philosophy and ethics. In Global Challenges, Governance, and Complexity: Applications and Frontiers, V. Galaz (ed.). Cheltenham: Edward Elgar Publishing, 38 – 62.
• Woermann, M. 2019. Complexity and the normativity of law. In J. Murray, T. Webb, and S. Wheately (eds.). Complexity Theory & Law: Mapping an Emergent Jurisprudence. London / New York: Routledge, 234 – 250.
• Woermann, M. 2018. Business ethics in Africa. In E. Heath, B. Kaldis, and A. Marcoux (eds.). The Routledge Companion to Business Ethics. London / New York: Routledge, 624 – 640.
• Woermann, M. 2010. Corporate identity, responsibility and the ethics of complexity. In P. Cilliers and R. Preiser (eds.). Complexity, Difference and Identity. Dordrecht: Springer, 167 – 191.

Chapter contributions to the following textbooks:

• Brevis and M. Vrba (eds.). Contemporary Management Issues, Cape Town: Juta.
• J. Smit, M. Vrba and T. Botha (eds.). Management Principles 7th ed. Juta.
• Rossouw and L. van Vuuren. Business Ethics 5th ed.; 6th ed. Oxford University Press.
• Rossouw, D. (ed.) Ethics for Accountants and Auditors 3rd ed.; 4th ed. Cape Town: Oxford University Press

For a full list of Prof  Woermann’s publications, please see https://sun.academia.edu/MinkaWoermann