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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 120 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 set up following our first international conference.

 

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New Editors and Publisher Announced

 

With effect from Volume 9 (2010) Philosophy of Management will be edited by an international team of Executive Editors:

 

Mark Dibben (Australia)

R Edward Freeman (USA)

Paul Griseri (UK)

Frits Schipper (The Netherlands)

 

Nigel Laurie the Founding Editor will remain as Consulting Editor

 

Editorial Board

 

Executive Editors

Mark R Dibben

Dr Mark R. Dibben is an Associate Professor in the Department of Management at Monash University, Australia and has served on the Editorial Board of Philosophy of Management. He is Visiting Scholar at the Centre for Process Studies in the School of Theology at Claremont Graduate University, California and is Executive Director of the International Process Network (IPN; www.processnetwork.org), the international body charged by its member organisations with enabling process research around the globe. His research focuses on what he terms Applied Process Thought, namely work that moves beyond broad-sweeping process commentary, to the wholehearted attempt at examining scientific and social scientific phenomena by the systematic application of process metaphysics. He has published extensively on this topic; his most recent publication is Applied Process Thought, Vol.2 (Frankfurt/Lancaster: Ontos Verlag), an edited collection with Rebecca Newton, of articles by leading process philosophers, scientists and social scientists on topics ranging from biology, physics and theology to sociology, ecological economics and education. His own doctoral research used process metaphysics to explore the nature of  Interpersonal Trust in the Entrepreneurial Venture (Macmillan, 2000).

R Edward Freeman

Ed Freeman is Elis and Signe Olsson Professor of Business Administration, academic director of the Business Roundtable Institute for Corporate Ethics, and a senior fellow of the Olsson Center for Applied Ethics at the University of Virginia Darden School of Business. He has been one of the leading thinkers in the fields of strategy and business ethics for very many years. He pioneered the concept of stakeholding in the 1980s, and amongst his many publications is the highly influential Strategic Management: A Stakeholder Approach, originally published in 1984 and reprinted 2010 by Cambridge University Press.

He was a founding member of the Philosophy of Management Editorial Board, a plenary speaker at our inaugural Oxford conference and contributed to the special issue 8.3 on 'Management and Stakeholders - 25 Years On'.

Ed Freeman is also a professor of religious studies and a faculty advisor to the UVA's Institute for Practical Ethics and adjunct professor of stakeholder management. Before coming to the Darden School, Freeman taught at the University of Minnesota and the Wharton School. His book, Managing for Stakeholders: Survival, Reputation and Success, was published in 2007 by Yale University Press. His new book is Stakeholder Theory: The State of the Art, published by Cambridge University Press in early 2010. He is the author or editor of more than 20 volumes in the areas of stakeholder management, business strategy and business ethics as well as more than 100 articles in a wide variety of publications. 

 In 2008, Freeman received an honorary doctorate (Doctor Honoris Causa) from Universidad Pontificia Comillas in Spain for his work on stakeholder theory and business ethics. He has received a number of awards for teaching excellence from the Wharton School, Carlson School of Management at the University of Minnesota, and the Darden School. In 1993, he was chosen for the Outstanding Faculty Award by the Darden student body; in 2001 he was honored by the World Resources Institute and the Aspen Institute with a Pioneer Award for Lifetime Achievement

http://www.darden.virginia.edu/html/direc_detail.aspx?styleid=2&id=4468

Paul Griseri

Paul Griseri is Head of the Department for Business and Management at Middlesex University where he offers one of the only undergraduate modules in Philosophy and Management to be found in Europe. He was previously Director of Studies in the Department of Management Science and Innovation at University College London and Visiting Professor of Management at BPP Professional Education.  For several years he was the leader of the MBA programme at the former London Guildhall University. He has a first degree and doctorate in Philosophy, and has postgraduate diplomas in management and HR

Paul has taught many postgraduate professional students from a wide range of occupational areas and taught and facilitated learning in areas such as Business Ethics, Research Methodology, Organisational Behaviour, and Managing for Financial Compliance.   He has also consulted with a range of organisations, and run in-house development programmes for managers.

 

Paul is a reviewer for the Journal of Business Ethics and served on the Editorial Board of Philosophy of Management since the Journal’s launch in 2001. He has been a member of the organising committee of all seven Philosophy of Management Conferences at St Anne’s College, Oxford

 

He has published in both management and philosophy journals including Philosophy of Management and amongst his books are Managing Values (Macmillan 1998) and Management Knowledge (Palgrave 2002).  He has just completed Business Ethics and Corporate Responsibility with Dr N Seppala. 

Frits Schipper

Frits Schipper is Professor of Philosophy, founder and Coordinator of the MA in Philosophy of Management and Organisation at VU University, Amsterdam, and chairman of the Vanwoodman Society, a foundation aiming at reflective learning beyond disciplinary boundaries.  He has degrees in  physics and philosophy and did a PhD in the latter.

Among his interest are the relationship of philosophy and practice, rationality and creativity and corporate social responsibility.  He has published widely in Philosophy of Management and elsewhere on philosophical issues in relation to management including phenomenology, rationality and organisation and has served on the Editorial Board of the Journal since 2002.

 

 Libri Publishing Press Release

Libri Publishing to become publisher of ‘Philosophy of Management' Journal

Libri Publishing and Reason in Practice Ltd., the owner and current publisher of the Journal ‘Philosophy of Management’, are pleased to announce that they have reached agreement for Libri to become publisher of the Journal with immediate effect. 

The Philosophy of Management Journal was established in 2001 and has played a pioneering role in bringing of philosophy into contact with the study and practice of management. In the nine years since is foundation the Journal has developed an international reputation and an international subscription base. Nigel Laurie, the founder and first Editor of Philosophy of Management Journal commented: 

“I am delighted that Libri Publishing have taken on publication of Philosophy of Management and confident that with their resources and commitment to the field the Journal will realise its potential and make a major contribution to the development of management education, theory and practice worldwide.”

Reason in Practice Ltd. will continue to exercise responsibility for the Journal’s commissioning, refereeing and editorial processes. In publishing the Journal Libri will work closely with the new executive editorial team, which comprises Professor Mark Dibben of Monash University Australia, Frits Schipper from VU University of the Netherlands, and Paul Griseri of Middlesex University in the UK. Speaking on behalf of the new Editorial Team, Dr  Griseri commented that

We are delighted that Nigel Laurie will retain an important role as consulting editor. Despite the progress that has been made since the Journal was established, in our view management still wants philosophy, now more than ever. It is vitally important to nurture a spirit of open debate and critical dialogue as the primary vehicle for intellectual progress.”

 Paul Jervis, Managing Director of Libri Publishing, welcomed the new partnership with Reason in Practice. He said that he hoped that the partnership with Libri would enable the Journal to increase its subscription base and extend its influence. He commented:

We are particularly excited at the opportunity this partnership brings of developing a series of titles covering some of the key issues which the Journal has featured in its first nine years, and bringing these to a wider audience.”  

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Libri offers its authors, support, speed, skill and service; its readers creativity, challenge and controversy; and its client firms and institutions profile and professionalism. 

Libri was established in February 2009 by a team of colleagues who had worked together for a dozen years in professional and academic publishing, knowledge transfer and the management and delivery of blended learning projects. Between them, Libri's senior management team has over fifty years' senior management experience, in media organisations, higher education and consultancy. Their extensive expertise includes authorship, design, editing, printing and publishing, IT and e-learning pedagogy, as well as the design and provision of continuing professional development programmes.

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 June 2010

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

 

Registration Form

 

 

 

 

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 Magazines 2007 ranking of the 100 Most Influential People in Business Ethics.

http://lgst.wharton.upenn.edu/donaldst/index.htm

 

Founding and Consulting Editor

 

Nigel Laurie

International Management Consultant

Former Chair, Society for Philosophy in Practice

Former Editor Practical Philosophy 

 

Executive Editors from 2010

 

Mark Dibben

Associate Professor, Department of Management

Monash University, Australia

Visiting Scholar, Centre for Process Studies, Claremont School of

Theology

Executive Director, International Process Network

 

R Edward Freeman

Elis and Signe Olsson Professor of Business Administration and

Director, Olsson Center for Applied Ethics

Darden Graduate School of Business, University of Virginia

 

Paul Griseri

Management teacher and writer

Head of Department, Department of Business and Management

Middlesex University

 

Frits Schipper

Coordinator, MA in Philosophy of Management and Organization

Faculty of Philosophy, VU University, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

 

Reviews Editor

 

Markus Scholz

Senior Research Fellow and coordinator of the research and teaching

group for philosophy of economics and management

Center for Philosophy and Ethics of Science

Leibniz University of Hannover

 

Editorial Board

 

Robin Attfield

Emeritus Professor of Philosophy, University of Cardiff

 

Ron Beadle

Newcastle Business School, Northumbria University, UK

 

Bob Brecher

Professor of Philosophy, University of Brighton

Former Editor-in-Chief Res Publica

 

Ruth Chadwick

Director, ESRC Centre for Economic and Social Aspects of Genomics

(Cesagen), Cardiff University

 

Nelarine Cornelius

Professor of Human Resource Management and Organization Studies

Bradford University School of Management

 

Thomas Donaldson

Mark O. Winkelman Professor at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania

Past President, Society for Business Ethics

 

John Dunn

Professor of Political Theory, University of Cambridge

and Fellow of King’s College

 

Michael Freeden

Professor of Politics, University of Oxford

and Fellow of Mansfield College

Founder-Editor Journal of Political Ideologies

 

Geoff  Goldman

Senior Lecturer and Head: B Com (Hons) (Strategic Management)

Department of Business Management

Faculty Of Management, University Of Johannesburg

Executive Editor: Acta Commercii

 

Anthony Grayling

Professor of Philosophy, Birkbeck College

University of London and Supernumerary Fellow of

St Anne’s College, Oxford

 

Ronald Green

Eunice and Julian Cohen Professor for the Study of Ethics and Human

Values and Director, Institute for the Study of Applied and

Professional Ethics, Dartmouth College, USA

 

Christopher Grey

Professor of Organisational Behaviour

Industrial Relations and Organisational Behaviour Group

Warwick Business School

Emeritus Editor Management Learning

 

Keith Grint

Professor of Public Leadership & Management

Institute of Governance & Public Management (IGPM)

Warwick Business School, University of Warwick

 

Erik de Haan

Senior Consultant, Ashridge Consulting (Berkhamsted)

Former Editor Filosofie in Bedriif: journal for philosophy, strategy and

organisation

 

Leigh Hafrey

Senior Lecturer in Communication and Ethics

Sloan School of Management, MIT

 

Marja-Liisa Kakkuri-Knuuttila

Professor in Philosophy of Management

Aalto University, School of Economics, Helsinki

 

Gregory Katz

ESSEC-Sanofi-Aventis Chair of Therapeutic Innovation

Asociate Professor, ESSEC Institute of Health Management, ESSEC

Business School, Paris-Singapore

 

Martin Kelly

Associate Professor of Accounting

Waikato Management School, New Zealand

 

David Lamb

Honorary Reader in Philosophy, Department of Biomedical Science and

Biomedical Ethics, University of Birmingham

 

Stephen Linstead

Professor of Critical Management

The York Management School, University of York

 

Michael Loughlin

Reader in Philosophy, Manchester Metropolitan University

Visiting Reader in Medical Philosophy

Queen Mary College Medical School, University of London

 

David Lutz

Senior Lecturer, Department of Philosophy

The Catholic University of Eastern Africa, Nairobi, Kenya

 

Catherine McCall

Former Director, European Philosophical Inquiry Centre

University of Glasgow

 

Alan Malachowski

Honorary Lecturer in Philosophy, University of East Anglia

 

Domčnec Melé

Professor and Director of Business Ethics, IESE, Barcelona

 

Susan Mendus

Professor of Politics, University of York

 

Cristina Neesham

Research Fellow, School of Business and Economics, Monash University,

Australia

Editorial Board Member Journal of Philosophical Economics

Visiting Scholar, Bucharest Academy of Economic Studies, Romania

 

Wayne Norman

Mike & Ruth Mackowski Professor of Ethics, Duke University

 

David Nyberg

Emeritus Professor of Education and Medicine,

Emeritus Adjunct Professor of Philosophy, SUNY at Buffalo

Former President, Philosophy of Education Society

 

Onora O’Neill

Chair, The Nuffield Foundation

Past President, The British Academy

Formerly Principal, Newnham College, Cambridge

 

Yvon Pesqueux

Chaire, Développement des Systčmes d’Organisation

Conservatoire National des Arts & Metiers, Paris

 

Philip Pettit

Princeton University

 

Ashly Pinnington

Professor of Human Resource Management and Dean of the

Faculty of Business, The British University in Dubai

 

David Seth Preston

Reader in Information Ethics, University of East London

Formerly management consultant and Professor of Information

Management, City College, CUNY, New York

 

Nicholas Rescher

University Professor of Philosophy, University of Pittsburgh

Honorary Member Corpus Christi College Oxford

Founder-Editor American Philosophical Quarterly, History of Philosophy

Quarterly and Public Affairs Quarterly

 

Romuald Rudzki

Director, New Zealand School of Export

 

Esa Saarinen

Professor of Applied Philosophy

Aalto University, Helsinki, Finland

 

Axel Seemann

Assistant Professor of Philosophy, Bentley College, USA

Former Management Consultant, Boston Consulting Group

 

Robert Shaw

Senior Lecturer in Business Management

The Open Polytechnic of New Zealand

 

Peter Singer

Ira W DeCamp Professor of Bioethics

University Centre for Human Values, Princeton

 

Richard Smith

Professor of Education, University of Durham

Former Editor Journal of Philosophy of Education

 

Roger Sutcliffe

Former Chair, Society for Advancing Philosophical Enquiry and Reflection

in Education (SAPERE)

 

Tomohiro Tanaka

Associate Professor of Ethics

Kumamoto University, Kumamoto, Japan

 

Edward Kingsley Trezise

Senior Lecturer, Business Ethics, Philosophy and History of

Management, The Business School, University of Gloucestershire

 

David Vogel

George Quist Professor of Business Ethics and Professor of Political

Science, Walter A Haas School of Business University of California at

Berkeley

Editor California Management Review

 

 

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Special Supplementary Issue

 
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.

The paper will be more visionary than argumentative..."

 

Paper copies and free pdf file for your personal use now available

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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.

 

 

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

 

 

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

 

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.

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..."

David McLellan

 

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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)

 

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

 

 

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 Click here 

Fifth International Conference

11 - 14 July 2008
St Anne's College, Oxford

 

Philosophy of Management 07
Fourth International Conference

8 - 11 July 2007
St Anne's College, Oxford
 

Conference Home Page Click here

 

 

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

 Click here for conference details

 

 

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

Proceedings to be published.  Details to follow.

 

 

Developing Philosophy of Management - Crossing Frontiers

International Conference: Oxford  26 - 29 June 2002

 

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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Introducing Philosophy of Management

London School of Economics 22 June 2001

 

    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.

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