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Now in its seventh 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
(8Ľ"x11˝") 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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St Anne's College, Oxford
Fifth International Conference
PHILOSOPHY OF MANAGEMENT 08
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– 14 July 2008
Conference Programme
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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..."
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)
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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
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Philosophy of Management 07
Fourth International Conference
8 - 11 July 2007
St Anne's College, Oxford
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Conference Home Page
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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
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Philosophy of Management 05
Third International Conference
6 - 10 July 2005
St Anne's College, Oxford
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Full Programme
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Practising Philosophy of Management
Second International
Conference
7 - 11
July 2004
St Anne's College, Oxford
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Conference Home Page Click
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Programme
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here
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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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Proceedings to be published.
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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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