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PHILOSOPHY OF MANAGEMENT 05

St Anne’s College, Oxford 6 – 10 July 2005

Organised by Philosophy of Management

 

Wednesday  6 July

4.00 - 6.30

Registration

6.30

Drinks Reception

7.15

Dinner

 

8.30 - 10.00

 

 

 

 

 

Keynote Address

Communicating and Philosophising with Managers

Esa Saarinen

Professor of Systems Sciences, Applied Philosophy and Creative Problem-Solving

Helsinki University of Technology

Thursday  7 July

 

1

2

3

4

8.30

Panel Introduction to the day: Nelarine Cornelius and session chairs

 

9.00

 

 

 

 

 

 

Method

 

The Philosopher as Systematic Planner

Gabriel Arnaiz

 

The Vision of The Third Methodological Movement: Towards a Mixed Method Approach in Management And Organizational Research

Bojana Lobe

 

 

 

 

Dialogue

 

How to Enrich Forms of Dialogue to Enhance the Good Life in Organisations

Marja-Liisa Kakkuri-Knuuttila, Sebastian Slotte & Kaisa Heinlahti 

 

A Celebration of  ‘Free Spaces’, in Practice and Theory

Cynthia Dereli

 

Reading Management

 

Analysis of a Text and its Representations: Univocal Truth or a Situation of Undecidability?

Miriam Green

 

A Philosophical Reading of some Classics of Management and Organisation: Frederick Taylor

Frits Schipper

 

 

 

10.30

Coffee

 

11.00 - 12.45

 

 

Philosophical Lecturing: A Demonstration

Esa Saarinen

 

1.00 

 Lunch

 

1

2

3

4

 

2.00              

 

 

 

 

Workshop (part 1)

 

Marcus Aurelius

Barre Fitzpatrick

 

 

 

Workshop (part 1)

 

Narcissism, Splitting and Schism; Feelings about Theories and Theories about Feelings

Steve Smith

 

 

Workshop (part 1)

 

News from the Front:  A Reflective Practitioner's View of Management Development

Joe Nason and Vincenzo Dispenza

 

 

3.30

Tea

 

4.00

 

 

 

Workshop (part 2)

 

Barre Fitzpatrick

 

 

 

Workshop (part 2)

 

Steve Smith

 

Workshop (part 2)

 

Joe Nason and Vincenzo Dispenza

 

5.30

Reflective Review of the day: Nelarine Cornelius and session chairs

7.00

Dinner

Friday  8 July

 

1

2

3

4

8.30

Panel Introduction to the day: Paul Griseri and session chairs

 

9.00

 

 

 

 

 

 

Organising for Nihilism

David Currie

 

Alethic Pluralism and the Development of Management Thinking and Practice

John Darwin 

 

 

 

Empowerment of Technology

Gordon Euchler

 

A Study into the Contribution of

Knowledge Misapplication to Systems’ Failure

Roy Kent  

 

A Philosophy of Maintenance?

David Love & Chris Kimble 

 

 

Decision Making in Marketing

Ram Manohar Vikas

 

Brand Names, Sense and Reference

Axel Seeman

 

A Thesis Chapter Demo: Organising Social Relations in Marketing and STS

Elena Simakova

 

 

The Search for a Beetle? Thoughts on a Philosophical Framework for Knowledge Management

Judith Broady-Preston

 

Applying Complexity Theory in Library and Information Science

Bonna Jones

10.30

Coffee

 

11.00

 

 

Targets, Rules and the Intimidation of Expert Deliberation

Michael Luntley

 

 

 

12.30 

 Lunch

 

1

2

3

4

 

1.30

 

 

 

 

 

Re-conceiving Environment in Organisation Theory: A Process Philosophical Approach

Robert Chia  & Andrew Chan

 

A History of the Paradigm in Organisation Theory

Chris Blackburn & Reva Brown 

 

Calling a Spade a Tool: Towards an Ontology of Organisations

Gladius Kulothungan

 

A Second Order Understanding of Organisational Quality Improvement

Jim Brown, Petia Sice & David Weir

 

Improving Not-for-Profit Organisations: (The Theory and Practice of) Theory and Practice

Jon Griffith

 

The Psychological Vulnerability of Managers in an Age of Liquid Modernity

Hans Bennink

 

Management Agency and Rationality: Insights from Cognitive Science, Neuroeconomics and Philosophy of the Mind and Brain

Michael Williams

 

Popular Culture and Management Action: The Devil Is in the Detail

Linda Hitchin

 

Management Education and Development: the Questionable Presuppositions and Presumptions of Management Educators

Kok Leong Choo

 

 

Management Theory – An Indian Perspective

Pooja Saxena

 

Management and Philosophy in Slovenia

Jana Nadoh  

 

3.30

Tea

 

4.00

 

 

 

 

 

Entrepreneur’s  Interpretation and Market Coordination in Subjectivist Perspective

Fu Lai Tony Yu

 

On Innovation and Capability: An Alternative View

Mikko Koria

 

 

 

 

 

Managerialism and the Transformation of the Academy

Willard Enteman

 

Implementing some Suggestions from Process Philosophy in the Field of Evaluation: Whitehead and Standardised Testing

Franz Riffert

 

Peer Assessment Technique in Management Performance Appraisal and the Doctrine of Peer Judgement in African Traditional Philosophy

Adeyeye Asolo  - Adewole A

 

 

Managing Without Managers? The Fractal Process Model

Romuald Rudski 

 

The Limits of Rationality: Restoring Reason to Management

Kazem Chaharabaghi

 

Reviewing Rationality: A Pragmatist Perspective on Policy and Planning Processes

Philipp Dorstewitz & Shyama Kuruvilla

5.30

Reflective Review of the day: Paul Griseri and session chairs

7.00

Dinner

Saturday  9 July

 

1

2

3

4

8.30

Panel Introduction to the day: Jim Platts and session chairs

 

9.00

 

 

 

 

 

 

Executive Conduct

 

What Is It Like to Be a Business Executive?  Error Induced Norms in the World of Business

Gerard Montague

 

The Open Source Software Development Process: Can Standard Economic Theory Account for It?

Jeff Powell

 

What Ethics Should Follow Management in a Climate of Moral Panic?

Bernard Ramanantsoa & Valérie Battaglia

 

 

 

Virtuous Conduct

 

Management in Terms of Perfective Practice: Beyond MacIntyre's Negative Interpretation

Peter Scheers

 

The Self-Actualised Organisation Mike Flynn & Peter Chiaramonte

 

Business Ethics Requires Virtuous Managers

Paolo Pugni

 

Traditional Virtues and Contemporary Management

Howard Harris

 

 

10.30

Coffee

 

11.00

 

 

Citizenship Inc. 

Wayne Norman & Pierre-Yves Néron.

 

 

 

 

 

12.30 

 Lunch

 

1.30

 

 

 

 

 

Self Regulation

 

Managing Electronic Workplace Surveillance to Preserve Employee Autonomy

Emma Rooksby & Natasha Cica

 

 

Networks, Deliberative Democracy and Reticular Society

Yvon Pesqueux

 

One Must Know It! - Arguing for Self-Regulation and Responsible Entrepreneurship

Verner Petersen

 

 

 

Meaningful Conduct

 

How Might Heidegger's Concept Of ‘Dwelling’ Inform Ethical Leadership Practice?

Donna Ladkin

 

Trust

Katalin Illes

 

Hermeneutics Into Practice: Organising Values

Jeff Waistell

 

Managing Universities

 

Should a For-Profit Corporation Own and Operate a University?

A Scott Carson

 

The Moral Economy of Deaning

Richard Weiner

 

Wisdom and Ethics in Management:

Helping the Next Generation to

Prepare: Education and Sustainability

Martin Kelly & Graham Oliver

 

 

3.30

Tea

 

4.00

 

 

 

 

 

Corporate Governance

 

Determining Organisational Success Through Stakeholder Analysis

Peter C Grossi, Hefin Rowlands & David Harwood

 

The Happy Organisation

Pierre Winkler

 

Towards a Theory of Corporate Governance for Virtuous Organisations

David Ardagh

 

 

Understanding Language

 

Weighing Busines Ethics on a Lickert Scale: An Epistemological Concern in Business Ethics Research

Marie-France Lebouc

 

On the Logical Geography of UK Higher Education Expansion

Rod Thomas

 

The Roots of Civic Trust

Jim Platts

 

 

 

5.30

Reflective Review of the day: Jim Platts and session chairs

7.00

Dinner

Sunday  10 July

 

9.00

 

 

 

 

Conference Review

 

To capitalise on the ‘workshop’ aspect of the conference the morning sessions offers

the opportunity for collective reflection and deliberation on the conference content, planned

and otherwise. 

 

The purpose is also to establish an action list for those wishing to take things further –

and guide planning of the next event.

 

o Panel reports on personal discoveries

o Emerging themes

o Conclusions and applications

 

10.30

Coffee

 

11.00

 

 

Conference Planning

 

o Priority themes and issues for 2006

o Design proposals

 

12.30 

Lunch

2.00

Depart

           

Proceedings

 

Please note that the full proceedings cd rom will be available at the conference.  Speakers will speak to their abstracts which will be issued by email on 11 June. 

 

Organising Committee

 

Nelarine Cornelius: Brunel University

Paul Griseri: University College London

Nigel Laurie: Philosophy of Management (Chair)

Jim Platts: Institute for Manufacturing, Cambridge University

 

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