Managing Speech Rights

This editorial introduces the special issue “Managing Speech Rights” in the journal Philosophy of Management. The papers in this special issue use a philosophical lens to consider not just how speech rights are actually managed but how they ought to be managed. This special issue examines how managerial actions, decisions, and decision-making processes affect the exercise of speech rights and considers the conditions under which free speech should be understood as justifiably limited, morally permissible, or even actively encouraged as a matter of bestpractice. This editorial sets the discussion in a broader context by highlighting the importance and the timeliness of discussing the uses and limits of the right to free speech within organizations, introducing the papers enclosed in this special issue, and finally drawing avenues for further research.