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Practising Philosophy of Management 
St Anne's College, Oxford
7 - 11 July 2004

 

Wednesday 7 July     Book a day ticket

2.00 - 3.30

Registration

3.30

Tea

4.00

 Welcome and Introduction

Nigel Laurie

Editor and Publisher Philosophy of Management

4.30 - 6.00

 

 Plenary Address

The Legitimacy of Management

George C Lodge

Jaime and Josefina Chua Tiampo Professor of Business Administration, Emeritus, Harvard Business School

6.30

Drinks Reception

7.15

Dinner

8.45 - 10.00

 

 

 

 

Management from the Perspective of Systems Theory

Peter Andras and Bruce Charlton

 

 

 Implementing Ethics Programmes: The Role of Public Sector Project Design and Process Management

Bryane Michael  

 

Ethical Decisions in Organisations: Influences and Implications for Moral Autonomy

Eva Tsahuridu

Philosophy as a Profession

Thomas Basbøll

 

Perversions of Philosophy

Campbell Jones

 Practical Workshop Stream

 Developing Moral Philosophical Competence

(Introducing the Practical Workshop Stream and developing the  Workshop atmosphere and way of working.)

Jim Platts

Thursday 8 July     Book a day ticket

8.30 - 10.30

 

 

Catallactics and Nomadology

Nesta Devine

 

Aesthetics as Foundation for Business Activity

John Dobson

Philosophy, Managerialism and Ethics: Hegelian and Nietzschean Reflections Balancing the Rational with the Thymotic

Lindsay Dawson

 Thomas Kuhn: A Paradox of Partial Reading

Mark Tadajewski 

 

Management, Science and Reality

Michael Loughlin

Developing Productive Relationships in the Construction Industry

Jim Platts and Vladimir Tomasevic 

 

10.30

Coffee

11.00 -12.30

 

 Plenary Address

Trust

Onora O’Neill

Principal, Newnham College, Cambridge

12.30 

 Lunch

 1.30 - 3.30

 

 

 

Agency and Intention in Management

Michael Williams

 Good Ethics is Good Business:  Revised Guidelines Reward Ethical Behavior

 Paul E Fiorelli

 

 

 

The ‘Care and Growth’ Model for Site Closures - A Leadership Guide

Angela Gent and Jim Platts

 

Bio-manufacturing Networks: Linking Creativity and Trust

Yuen Yoong Leong and Jim Platts

3.30

Tea

 4.00 - 6.00

 

 

 

 

 

The Long Arm and the Invisible Hand

Thomas Basbøll and Søren Barlebo  Wenneberg

 

The Rational versus the Spiritual: A Reassessment of our Inheritance from the Modernist Era - an anniversary study 1904-2004

Cynthia Dereli

The Virtue of Organisational Selfishness

Peter Chiaramonte, Mike Flynn and Ed Little

 

Competitive Strategies and Philosophy Of  Management

František Bartes

 

Corporatising Social Responsibility

Maurita Harney

Reflective Knowledge Management

Frits Schipper

  

 

Incommensurability and the Taichi Model of Strategic Management

Michael Koorndyk

 

7.00

 Dinner

Friday 9 July     Book a day ticket

 8.30 - 10.30

 

 

 

 

A Philosophical Inquiry into the Modelling of Managerial Systems

Petia Sice, Erik Mosekilde and Ian French

 

Philosophy and Management: Making Connections with the Managerial Cybernetics of Organisation

Rod Thomas

Dignity and Work: Origins of the Concept Dignity and Its Possible Relevance to the World of Work Today

Marius van Wyck

 

Are ‘Hofstede’ Type Models of National Culture Inherently Racist?

Paul Griseri

 

The Problematic Appeal of Meaning Finitism

Marja-Liisa Kakkuri-Knuuttila

Human Resources Management Specificity

Maria Teresa Vieira Campos Proença

 

 The Irrationality of Rational and Non-rational Models of Management: Towards a Metalectic Alternative

Kazem Chaharbaghi and Sandy Cripps

 

The Relevance of Moral Management

Jana Nadoh

 

                        

 

10.30

Coffee

11.00 - 12.30

 

 Plenary Address

(How) Should Managers Philosophise - and (What) Should They Be Philosophising (About)?

Julian Baggini

Editor The Philosophers’ Magazine

12.30 - 2.00

Lunch

 1.30 - 3.30

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Organization and Individuality in Spinoza: The Concept of the Multitude

Sverre Spoelstra  

 

Ontological Gerrymandering as Community Performance in Marketing

Elena Simakova

 

Reframing Corporate Governance: A Process Thought Perspective

William Sun, Steve Letza, Mark Dibben and Clive Smallman

Advertising’s Construction of Identity: An Ethical Approach to Modern Identity Through Advertising

Oscar Diaz and Txetxu Ausin

 

Brands and the Self

James Woudhuysen

 

Mimesis and Brand Management. Affective Patterns in the Culture of Brands

Søren Buhl Pedersen

 

 

Navigating Institutional History

Frankie Shackelford, John Schmit, and Tom Morgan

 

 Part I

Professors at the Helm: A History of Leadership at Augsburg College

Frankie Shackelford

 

Part 2

Reifying Aspirations:  A Textual Analysis of ‘Augsburg 2004: Extending the Vision’ 

John S Schmit

 

Part 3

Vision to Practice: An Organisational Experiment at Augsburg College

Thomas Morgan

Methodological ‘Spaces’ in Enquiry: A Second Workshop

Stephen Smith

 

 

3.30 - 4.00

Tea

 4.00 - 6.00

 

 

 

Do Chaos and Complexity Theories Invalidate the Rational Management Approach?

Stephen Sheard 

 

Disorder, Ethics and Organisation

Olivier Babeau

Making Democratic Interventions in Enterprises

Han van Diest 

 

 A Philosophical Investigation into Quality

Jim Brown and Petia Sice

 

The Implications of Henri Bergson’s Philosophy for the Management and Measurement of Service Quality

Martyna Sliwa 

Company Philosophy: consulting interventions

David M Wolf

 

 

7.00

Dinner

Saturday 10 July     Book a day ticket 

 8.30 - 10.15

 

 

 

One to Another: The Entrepreneurial Venture as Ethics

Robert G Crawford

 

Management Education and Ethics after Levinas

Edward Trezise

Corporate Responsibilities and Property Rights in the Management of Natural Resources

Murray Hofmans-Sheard

Social Capital, Capacity Building and Quality Assurance: Where Did We Go Wrong, and How Can We Stop?

Jon Griffith

 

 

The Free Space Workshop: An Introduction

Jos Kessels and Pieter Mostert

 

 

10.15

Coffee

 10.45 - 12.30

 

 

 

  

From Virtue to Competency – Changing the Principles of Public Service?

Alan Lawton  and Michael Macaulay

 

Two Forms of Virtue Ethics: Two Sets of Virtuous Action for Fire Fighters?

David Dawson 

 

 

Success Oriented Spirituality: Workshop

Mike Blum 

 

Free Space and Room to Reflect: Workshop

Jos Kessels and Pieter Mostert

 

 

Lunch

 1.30 - 3.30

 

 

 

The Ethics of Prudence and The Precautionary Principle: The Managerial Resonance of a Philosophical Legacy

Gregory Benichou

 

Local v global risk decision making

Jordi Vallverdu

Corporate Social Responsibility: Another Perspective

José-Angel Ceballos-Amandi

Virtues Ethics and Merciful Corporations and Management

Esther Roca 

 

Modesty: The Crucial Competence for Long Term Success

Pierre Winkler

The Inner Universe of the Manager

Hans Bennink

3.30 - 4.00

Tea

 4.00 - 6.00

 

Managing Consciousness:  Intentional Leadership

B Jeannie Lum

Missing Components of Management Education

Katalin Illes

 

Teaching Philosophy to Managers: Research Findings and Publication Plans

Nelarine Cornelius and Paul Griseri

 

 

 

 

 

What Have We Learnt from the Practical Workshop Stream?

What Are You Going to Do?

Jim Platts

 

8.00

Conference Dinner

Sunday 11 July

Breakfast and Depart

 

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