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Now in its ninth year, Philosophy of
Management is the leading forum for
philosophically informed thinking about management in theory and practice.
Through its pages, conferences, seminars
and discussion list it defines and develops the field of philosophy of
management.
Journal
readers and members of this global community include thinkers, scholars, teachers, consultants and practitioners
in 20 countries.
The Journal is for philosophers working in all traditions,
for management thinkers concerned with the philosophical foundations and
validity of their subject and practising managers seeking to engage with
the philosophical issues raised by what they believe and do.
Contributors have included leading philosophers, management
scholars, consultants and managers.
It is
independent, international, refereed and
appears three times a year. Each issue now contains on average 90 A4
(8¼"x11½") pages and 40-50,000 words. It
is an indispensable means of keeping abreast of this developing
field.
The Journal sponsors a range of conferences
and events and the international
ManagementPhilosophers Discussion List
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St Anne's
College, Oxford
Learning from the Crisis of
2007-09
The Seventh
International Philosophy of Management Conference
22 - 25
July 2010
Following the immediate aftermath of the
credit crunch, initial responses have varied. Some have
suggested the crisis was simply another – severe - cyclical
downturn and others that it derived from a failure to understand
risk and uncertainty and the difference between them. For some
observers, however, the crisis suggests a deeper malaise in the
management of economies and the organisations and institutions
operating within them. The MBA Oath movement originating in the
Harvard Business School graduating class of 2009 is perhaps one
straw in the wind. And of
course many commentators have called for fundamental reform, not
least of the financial sector and its regulation.
What has surely become clear is that
managerialist models – and management theories – have been
directly involved in the recent crisis. In some cases
they have contributed to the behaviour of governments or key
players such as central bankers and regulators, whilst in others
the influence has been via the imprint of subtle
assumptions on behaviours.
Sociologists, anthropologists, historians,
economists are just some of the disciplines to have explored
crises of this kind. This conference invites philosophical
exploration into what we have learned - and have yet to learn -
from the Crisis of 2007-09.
Papers combining empirical research and
case studies with philosophical treatment of issues will
be particularly welcome.
Full
Call for papers
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Keynote Speaker:
Tom Donaldson
'Three Ethical Roots of the Economic Crisis'
Thomas Donaldson is the Mark O. Winkelman
Professor at the Wharton School of the University of
Pennsylvania.
He has written broadly in the area of business ethics, values,
and leadership. His books include: Ties that Bind: A Social
Contract Approach to Business Ethics (Harvard University
Business School Press, 1999), with T. Dunfee; Ethical Issues
in Business, 8th Edition (Prentice-Hall Inc., 2007), with P.
Werhane; and Ethics in International Business (Oxford
University Press, 1989). His book, Ties that Bind, was
the winner of the 2005 SIM Academy of Management Best Book
Award.
He was Chairman of the Social Issues in Management Division of
the Academy of Management (2007-2008) and a founding member and
past president of the Society for Business Ethics. He was
Associate Editor of the Academy of Management Review from
2002-2007, and is currently a member of the editorial boards of
many journals. His writings have appeared in publications such
as the Academy of Management Review; Harvard Business
Review; Ethics; and Economics and Philosophy.
At Wharton he has received many teaching awards, including the
Outstanding Teacher of the Year award in both 2005 and 1998 and
the Excellence in Teaching Award for 2007, 2006, 2005, 2002,
2001, 2000, 1999 , and 1998).
He has consulted and lectured at many organizations, including
the Business Roundtable, Goldman Sachs, Walt Disney, the United
Nations, Microsoft, The Tata Group, Exelon, Motorola, AT&T, JP
Morgan, Johnson & Johnson, KPMG, Los Alamos National Laboratory,
ConocoPhillips, Shell, IBM, Western Mining-Australia, Pfizer,
the AMA, the IMF, Bankers Trust, and the World Bank. He has
appeared on the Today Show, the NBC Nightly News, CNN, MSNBC,
CNBC, PBS, and NPR. His remarks have been published in The New
York Times, Wall Street Journal, U.S. News & World Report,
Newsweek, Fortune Magazine, The Financial Times, and Business
Week.
He serves as an elected member of the National Adjudicatory
Council of the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA,
formerly the NASD). In the summer of 2002, he testified in the
US Senate regarding the Sarbanes-Oxley corporate reform
legislation. In October, 2006, he delivered a two-hour
address/workshop to the Secretary General of the United Nations,
Kofi Anan, and the other Assistant Secretary Generals regarding
the UN’s reform initiative. He was named the most influential
“thought leader” in Ethisphere Magazine’s 2007
ranking of the 100 Most Influential People in Business Ethics.
http://lgst.wharton.upenn.edu/donaldst/index.htm
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Special Supplementary
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Philosophy for Managers:
Reflections of a Practitioner
Esa Saarinen
Plenary speaker at our 2005
Oxford Conference, Esa Saarinen is
Professor of Systems
Sciences, Applied Philosophy and Creative Problem-Solving at Helsinki University of
Technology
"My philosophy for managers has
emerged out of a desire to develop a highly communicative
philosophy of human flourishing for the benefit of people
irrespective of their backgrounds....
The aim of this article is to describe the significance and
key challenges of philosophy for managers...on the basis of a
particular understanding of philosophy and my personal
experience as a practitioner.
Drawing heavily on my own experience, the paper will present
an outline and meta-philosophy of philosophical practices that
have proven useful....with practising managers.
My fundamental conception is that the benefits of philosophy
for managers emerge from the ‘in-between’ of philosophy and
managerial life. They are applied in nature, involve
transformative dimensions, require seamless integration to
managers’ attitudes, perspectives, and actions, and should be judged on their merits in the actions and
practices that result.
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Special Issue Call for Papers
Management and
Stakeholders
– 25 Years On
To
include a ‘reply to his critics’ from R Edward Freeman
Wim
Vandekerckhove, assistant professor of practical ethics at
Ghent University, Center for Ethics & Value Inquiry, edits
this 2009 special issue
In
1984, R. Edward Freeman published Strategic Management:
A Stakeholder Approach. While the term ‘stakeholder’
was then hardly used, it became one of the central
concepts in the business ethics revival since the 1990s
and quickly gained currency in mainstream management
discourse. Today it is practically a household term
used by many different types of actors
in a very diverse set of fields. Although many reasons
might be attributed to its popularity, Freeman’s
definition from 1984 is by far the most often referred to.
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Scope
This
special issue aims to assemble papers that offer
philosophical scrutiny of stakeholder thinking and that
relate this to Freeman’s conception.
This
means that Freeman’s stakeholder concept has allowed
innovative frameworks and perspectives to emerge in
relation to the various dimensions of management.
In
2007, Freeman, Harrison and Wicks published Managing
for Stakeholders as a practitioner’s version of the
revised 1984 book. In 2009 they will publish the academic
revision of Strategic Management.
To
celebrate this 25th anniversary of Freeman’s
classic work, we invite scholars and practitioners to
reflect upon avenues and perspectives on management that
this work has opened and/or closed.
Full call for
papers
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St Anne's College, Oxford
Managing In Critical Times:
Philosophical
Responses to
Organisational Turbulence
The Sixth
International Philosophy of Management Conference
23 - 26
July 2009
Programme
Booking Form
Call
for papers
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Recent turbulence in
organisations and economies has
Programme announced and
open for booking
Recent turbulence in organisations
and economies has called orthodoxies into question and
prompted actions many would have declared unthinkable. We
can be sure that the future will bring fresh crises and
turbulence that will overturn established thinking. The
challenges for managers in such contexts are
philosophical as well as practical.
We therefore invite philosophical responses to the
practical and theoretical challenges facing managers,
their teachers, the discipline and practice of management,
and its philosophical bases.
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Volume
5 Number 3 Now Available
Harvard Business School
Emeritus Professor George
Lodge conference keynote
on the legitimacy of
business leads an issue on
themes surrounding
legitimacy and community |
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Issue contents
George C
Lodge
The Legitimacy of Business
Stephen
Gimbel
Can Corporations Be Morally Responsible? Aristotle,
Stakeholders and the Non-Sale of Hershey
Christopher Bennett, Michael Bennett and Stephen
Bennett
Communities at Work? The Concept of ‘Community’
in Organisational Analysis
John K Alexander
Metaphors, Moral Imagination and the Healthy
Business
Organisation: A Manager’s Perspective
Eva E
Tsahuridu
Do Managers Leave Ethics at Home? Influences on
Ethical Decisions in Organisations and their
Implications
for Moral Autonomy
Paul Griseri
The Ideal of Professionalism: A Discussion of Bob
Brecher’s
‘Against Professional Ethics’
Bob Brecher
Morality, Professions and Ideals: A Response to
Paul Griseri
Muayyad Jabri
Narrative Identity Achieved Through Utterances: The
Implications of Bakhtin for Managing Change and
Learning
Stephen Sheard
Managers and the Heavenly City: How E-Commerce
Metaphors Shape Management Thought
Deborah Blackman, James Connelly and Steven Henderson
Beyond All Reasonable Doubt? Epistemological
Problems
of the Learning Organisation
Reviews
Willard F Enteman
The Modernization Imperative by Bruce Charlton
and Peter Andras
Robin Attfield
An Introduction to Global Citzenship by Nigel
Dower
Leonard Minkes
Ethics and Organisational Politics by
Christopher Provis
Matt Statler
The Art Firm: Aesthetic Management and Metaphysical
Marketing by Pierre Guillet de Monthoux
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Marx Issue Volume 5 Number 2
"...the Marxist
tradition does have something to say about
management. And, given
that Marx has been voted in a recent
BBC poll Britain’s
favourite philosopher, it seems appropriate
to ask what he
and his followers have to say about contemporary
management..."
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Renowned Marxist
biographer, editor and scholar David
McLellan guest edits the
latest special issue Marx,
Marxism and Global
Management.
Issue contents
David
McLellan
Guest Editor Introduction: Marx, Marxism and Global
Management
Kieron Smith
Marxism: Finding the Maestro in Management?
John Teta Luhman
Marx and McDonaldization: A Tropological Analysis
Bryan Evans
How the State Changes Its Mind: A Gramscian Account
of Ontario’s Managerial Culture Change
Alan Tuckman
Employment Struggles and the Commodification of
Time: Marx and the Analysis of Working Time
Flexibility
Matthias Zick Varul
Marx, Morality and Management: The Normative
Implications of his Labour Value Theory and the
Contradictions of HRM
Ernesto Gantman
Structural Change in Emergent Markets and the
Management Knowledge Industry: The Argentine Case
(1989-2003)
Kevin Young
How Neoliberalism Reproduces Itself: A Marxian
Theory
of Management
Nesta Devine
Is Analytic Marxism Possible? A ‘Socialist’
Interpretation
of Public Choice Theory
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Real Worlds Volume 5 Number 1
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Taking 'the real world' as
its theme, this issue explores different ways in which reality
is conceived, interpreted and managed in the private and
public sectors.
Issue contents
Editorial: Real Worlds
Brian Brewer, Anthony B L Cheung and Julia Tao
Whose Reason? Which Rationality? Understanding
the ‘Real Worlds’ of Hong Kong’s Public Managers
Robert McLaren
Rewards for Results? Equity in a Society of Capitalists
Arthur Krentz and David Cruise Malloy
Opening People to Possibilities: A Heideggerian Approach to
Leadership
Anders Örtenblad
Vague and Attractive: Five Explanations of the Use of
Ambiguous Management Ideas
Özlem Öz
Fuzzy Logic and Strategic Management: An Application
of Ragin’s Fuzzy-Set Methods
Stephen Sheard
White Mythology: From Linear to Virtual Value Chains in
E-Business
Miriam Green
Are Management Texts Produced by Authors or by Readers?
Representations of a Contingency Theory
Colin McArthur
‘Organisational Writing and the Lust for Combination’: One
Reader’s Reception
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Forthcoming
Special Issues
The Ethics of Crisis Management
Guest Editors
Per Sandin (Royal Institute of
Technology, Stockholm)
Martin Peterson (University
of Cambridge)
Teaching
Philosophy to Managers
Guest Editors
David Seth Preston (University of
East London)
Tom Claes (Centre for Ethics and Value Inquiry, Ghent
University)
MacIntyre
and Management
Guest Editor
Ron Beadle (Newcastle Business
School)
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Published in 2006
Marx, Marxism and Global
Management
Guest editor: David McLellan
Published in 2004
Our first guest-edited issue
Organisation and Decision Process
Edited by Tony Gear and
Leonard Minkes
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Philosophy of Management Events
Philosophy of
Management has mounted six conferences:
LSE in 2001
St Anne's College,
Oxford 2002.
Gloucestershire Business
School 2003
Royal Holloway
University of London 2003 (in association with Royal Holloway)
St Anne's College, Oxford
2004
St Anne's College,
Oxford 2005
LSE in 2006 (in
association with Brunel University)
St Anne's College,
Oxford 2007
St Anne's College,
Oxford 2008
Philosophy of Management 08 Conference Home Page
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Fifth International Conference
11 - 14 July 2008
St Anne's College, Oxford
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Philosophy of Management 07
Fourth International Conference
8 - 11 July 2007
St Anne's College, Oxford
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Emotions and Work: Ideas in Progress
International One-Day Conference
Friday December 15 2006
London School of Economics
Co-organised by
CREW (Centre for Research into Emotion Work, Brunel
University, UK) |
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Philosophy of Management 05
Third International Conference
6 - 10 July 2005
St Anne's College, Oxford
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Practising Philosophy of Management
Second International
Conference
7 - 11
July 2004
St Anne's College, Oxford
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1 Day International Symposium
London
Thursday 6 November 2003
Is There Still a
Public Sector Ethic?
in association with Royal Holloway
College
University of London
Speakers included Mary Warnock
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1 Day International Workshop
Cheltenham UK
Thursday 20 November 2003
From Philosophy to
Management and Back Again? Philosophy and the Education of
Managers
in association with University of
Gloucestershire
Business School
Cheltenham, UK
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Developing Philosophy of
Management - Crossing Frontiers
International Conference: Oxford 26 - 29 June 2002
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Over 100 delegates and speakers
attended the first international conference
Developing Philosophy of
Management - Crossing Frontiers
at
St Anne's College, Oxford
26-29 June 2002
For full programme and speaker
details
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the 2002 conference home page
All Oxford photos on
this site courtesy of St Anne's College
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Hartland House Crest
St Anne's
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Introducing
Philosophy of Management
London School of
Economics 22 June 2001
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In June 2001 we hosted Introducing Philosophy of Management at the London School
of Economics attended by 50 delegates. Speakers explored the need
for philosophy of management, set out its scope, and offered
different ways in which it could be practised. Click on the thumbnail to view the
conference programme
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