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Forthcoming Attractions

Volume 4

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Volume 3

Number 1 April 2003

Volume 2  2002

Number 3 December 2002

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Forthcoming Attractions include...

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Axel Seemann

Rational Trust: An Interview with Onora O’Neill

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Michael Williams

Towards a Better Understanding of Managerial Agency: Intentionality, Rationality and Emotion

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Esther Roca

Rethinking Aristotelian Communities as Contemporary Corporations

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Pia Bramming

Immanent Philosophy: The Concepts and Consequences of Human Resource Management

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Lionel Boxer

Discourses of Sustainability

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David Love

A Philosophy of Maintenance?

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Kok Leong Choo

Management Education and Development: The Questionable Presuppositions and Presumptions of Business School Educators  

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Cynthia Dereli & Peter Stokes

Exploring the Tension Between the Scientific and the Spiritual in the Age of Modernism: Implications for Management Theory in the Era of Postmodernity 

 

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Betina Wolfgang Rennison

Intimacy of Management: Codified Construction of Personalised Selves

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Han van Diest and Ben Dankbaar

Managing Freely Acting People: The Relevance of Hannah Arendt’s Theory of Action to Modern Management and Organisation Theory

 

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Paul Griseri

What Do We Know About Organisations?  A Socratic Dialogue with Socrates, Taylor, Dilbert and Kant

 

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Frits Schipper

A Philosophical Reading of Some Classics of Management and Organisation: Taylor

 

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Petia Sice

A Philosophical Inquiry into the Modelling of Managerial Systems

 

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Emma Rooksby

Managing Electronic Workplace Surveillance to Respect Employee Autonomy

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Katalin Illes

Trust

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Jana Nadoh Bergoc 

The Relevance of Moral Management

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Martyna Sliwa

Mapping and Measuring Service Quality: The Implicaitons of Henri Bergson’s Philosophy

 

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Murray Sheard

Corporate Responsibilities and Property Rights in the Management of Natural Resources

 

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Verner C Petersen

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

 

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Pierre Winkler

Modesty: The Crucial Competence for Long Term Success

 

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Michael Hanik

Bridging the Gap Between Philosophy and Knowledge Management

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Kazem Chaharbaghi

The Limits of Rationality: Restoring Reason to Management

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Tony Gear

Conversations in Learning

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Mark Dibben

Exploring Whitehead’s Understanding of Organisations: Moving beyond the organising experience of individual managers

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Stephen Sheard

Fixing the Colour Red

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Stephen Sheard

Postmodern/Process Metaphysics

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Jeff Waistell

The Textual Constitution of Organisational Values
 

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Jeff Waistell

Organising Values

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Alf Rehn

Management at Rest

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Miko Koria

On Innovation and Capability

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Alasdair MacIntyre contributes to a special MacIntyre and Management issue

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Axel Seemann interviews John Searle

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A special issue on teaching philosophy to managers

¨ Stakeholding: A Special Issue

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Michael Fielding

How Organisations Can Be Communities

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Contents Volume 3 Number 1  April 2003

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Editorial: Capable Management

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Nelarine Cornelius and Nigel Laurie

Capable Management: An Interview With Martha Nussbaum

 

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Robin Attfield

Global Warming, Justice and Future Generations

 

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Brian Donohue

Ethical Inquiry and Organisational Pathology: Three Paradigms of Decision Making

 

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Andrew Bartlett and David Seth Preston

Not Nice, Not In Control: Management, Ethics and Self-Deception in the Modern Corporation

 

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Erik Odvar Eriksen

Decision Making by Communicative Design: Rational Argument in Organisations

  Reviews
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John Edwards

Justice as Fairness: A Restatement by John Rawls

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Ron Beadle

Against Management by Martin Parker

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Bob Brecher

Ethics, Management and Mythology by Michael Loughlin

 

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Contents Volume 2 Number 3   December 2002

 

Contents Volume 2 Number 2  November 2002

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Editorial: Crossing Frontiers

 

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Juan Fontrodona & Domènec Melé

Philosophy as a Base for Management: An Aristotelian Integrative Proposal

 

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Johannes M. Lehner

Metaphors, Stories, Models: A Unified Account of Decisions
Part 2 What Managers Do

 

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Phil Johnson and Ken Smith

Constituting Business Ethics: A Metatheoretical Exploration

 

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Cara Nine

The Moral Ambiguity of Job Qualifications

 

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Ron Beadle

The Misappropriation of MacIntyre

 

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Terence Collins and Greg Latemore

Philosophising at Work: An Agenda for Discussion

 

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Reviews

 

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Keith Grint

Complexity and Management: Fad or Radical Challenge to Systems Thinking?

by Ralph D Stacey, Douglas Griffin and Patricia Shaw

 

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Martin Parker

Management Knowledge: A Critical View

by Paul Griseri

 

Contents Volume 2 Number 1   April 2002

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Editorial: Knowing and Deciding

 

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Sandro Limentani

From Paternalism to Managerialism: A Healing Shift?

 

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Michael Bokeno

Communicating Other/Wise: A Paradigm for Empowered Practice

 

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Bevan Catley and Campbell Jones

Deciding on Violence

 

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Johannes Lehner

Metaphors, Stories, Models: A Unified Account of Decisions

Part 1 Making Sense of the Decision Context

 

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Christopher Cowton

On Two-by-Two Grids: Or, the Arkaeology of Management Thought

 

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Sheelagh O'Reilly

Reason as Performance: A Manager's Philosophical Diary - Part 3

 

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Norma Romm

Responsible Knowing: A Better Basis for Management Science

 

 

Review

 

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Sandro Limentani

Books on managing healthcare

 

Contents Volume 1 Number 3   December 2001

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Editorial: Articulate Action

 

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Ruth Abbey

The Articulated Life: An Interview with Charles Taylor

 

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Robin Attfield

To Do No Harm? The Precautionary Principle and Moral Values

 

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Hans Bolten

Managers Develop Moral Accountability: The Impact of Socratic Dialogue

 

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Jeremy Moon

Business Social Responsibility: A Source of Social Capital?

 

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Ashly Pinnington

Charles Handy: The Exemplary Guru

 

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James McCalman
But I Did It For the Company! The Ethics of Organisational
Politics

 

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Richard McKenna & Eva Tsahuridu
Must Managers Leave Ethics at Home? Economics and
Moral Anomie in Business Organisations

 

 

Review

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David Lamb

Managing the Human Animal by Nigel Nicholson

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Contents Volume 1 Number 2   September  2001

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Editorial: Making Sense

 

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Frits Schipper

Creativity and Rationality: A Philosophical Contribution

 

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Michael Fielding

Learning Organisation or Learning Community? A Critique of Senge

 

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Chris Provis

Why Is Trust Important?

 

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Deborah Blackman & James Connelly

Learning from the Past: Collingwood and the Idea of Organisational History

 

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Sheelagh O'Reilly

Reason as Performance: A Manager's Philosophical Diary Part 2

 

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Doris Schroeder

Homo Economicus on Trial: Plato, Schopenhauer and the Virtual Jury

 

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Nathan Harter

Luxury, Waste, Excess and Squander: Leadership and The Accursed Share of Georges Bataille

 

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Jim Platts

Knowledge in Action: A Response to Jos Kessels

 

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Yvon Pesqueux

Philosophical Perspectives on the Company

 

Reviews

 

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Richard Norman

Equity as a Social Goal by Cathy Buchanan & Peter Hartley

 

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Paul Griseri

Popular Management Books by Staffan Furusten

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Contents Volume 1 Number 1   March 2001

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Editorial: ‘One of the greatest discoveries’

 

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Nigel Laurie & Christopher Cherry

Wanted: Philosophy of Management

 

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Robin Downie & Jane Macnaughton

Must Business Judgements Be Self-Interested?

 

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Alan Bray

Why Is It That Management Seems to Have No History?

 

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Gregg Elliott

Limits to Management: A Philosophy for Managing Land

 

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Sheelagh O'Reilly

Reason as Performance: A Manager's Philosophical Diary

 

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Robin Attfield

Meaningful Work and Full Employment

 

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Jos Kessels

Socrates Comes to Market

 

 

Reviews

 

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John Charvet

The Art of the State: Culture, Rhetoric and Public Management by Christopher Hood

 

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Robin Attfield

Genes, Genesis and God by Holmes Rolston III

 

   

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