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St Anne's College, Oxford

6 – 10 July 2005

PHILOSOPHY OF MANAGEMENT 05

This third international conference open to all follows the successful Practising Philosophy of Management conference at St Anne's College in summer 2004 which attracted delegates from 20 countries. It will be of special interest to philosophers, management researchers and teachers, consultants and practising managers.

Following feedback from this year's conference at St Anne's we are designing an event to offer a similar pace and ambience.

The emphasis will be on unhurried presentation of papers and discussion, high-quality supportive interaction and feedback, ample opportunity for networking and a gathering in which all participants can pursue informal, rich conversations and the continuing exploration of shared concerns. To this end, participants will be limited to 75 plus any Plenary speakers.

Sessions will include an informal 'meet the board' workshop where themes and approaches to writing and teaching philosophy of management will be explored.

Contributions are invited on any aspect of philosophy of management and from within any cultural or philosophical tradition. The committee will especially welcome papers, panels and workshops on the relationship between philosophy and management practice.

All papers will appear in the Conference Proceedings and a selection of revised papers will be published in a forthcoming issue of Philosophy of Management.

Purpose

Philosophical engagement with management theory and

practice and the issues managers face continues to develop

as the need becomes more evident. This Conference will

provide an opportunity for theorists and practitioners to

present new work in the philosophy of management to an international audience, engage with philosophical and

practical issues in management within and across cultures

and experience the power of philosophical skills and methods

in practice.

St Anne's College, Oxford

Conference Format

¨	Plenary sessions with invited leading speakers
¨ ¨	Presentations of papers in parallel sessions
¨ ¨	Workshops, panel discussions and interviews
¨ ¨	Poster presentations
¨ ¨	Practitioner workshops including items such as: Workshops offering participants the opportunity to experience or observe philosophical processes and techniques in use by managers Case studies of the application of philosophical thinking and techniques in management practice and management development Demonstrations of philosophical methods and materials used with managers
Scope Practical and theoretical contributions in any of the above formats are invited on any aspect of philosophy of management including:
¨	Presuppositions of management theory and practice
¨ ¨	Concepts employed in management thinking and practice
¨ ¨	Representations of management and the managerial myths informing management theory and practice
¨ ¨	Management methodologies
¨ ¨	The relevance and applicability of philosophical techniques and skills to management education, training and practice
¨ ¨	The application of philosophical disciplines to issues facing managers

Proposals already accepted include...

¨ Corporate Governance For Virtuous Organisations

¨ The Philosopher as Systemic Planner

¨ Peer Assessment in African Philosophy

¨ The Psychological Vulnerability of Managers

¨ The Search for a Beetle

¨ The Paradigm in Organizational Theory

¨ Second Order Understanding

¨ For Profit Universities?

¨ Limits of Rationality

¨ Heideggerian Roots

¨ Complex Problem Solving

¨ Organising for Nihilism

¨ Alethic Pluralism

¨ Kessels' Free Space for Reflection: A Critique

¨ Revised Rationality

¨ Managerialism and the Transformation of the Academy

¨ Ethical Relativism

¨ Marcus Aurelius workshop

¨ Assessing Classics in Organisation Theory

¨ Analysis of a Text

¨ Improving Not-for-profit Organisations

¨ Determining Organisational Success

¨ Classical Virtues and Contemporary Management

¨ Trust

¨ Complex Processes

¨ Sun Tzu's Empire

¨ How to Enrich Forms of Dialogue

¨ Wisdom & Ethics in Management

¨ Systems' Failure

¨ On developing innovation capability

¨ Calling a Spade a Tool

¨ Heidegger's Concept of 'Dwelling' and Leadership

¨ Sartre and Leadership

¨ Five Principles for Prosperity

¨ The vision of the third methodological movement

¨ Complexity and Sensemaking

¨ Management and Philosophy in Slovenia

¨ Philosophical studies in Indian management education

¨ Cognitive-Experiential Explorations

¨ Networks, Deliberative Democracy and Reticular Society

¨ One must know it

¨ The Roots of Civic Trust

¨ Open Source

¨ Business Ethics Requires Virtuous Managers

¨ Ethics in a Climate of Moral Panic

¨ Meaning Capture

¨ Whitehead on Standardised Testing

¨ Workplace Surveillance

¨ Management Theory: An Indian Perspective

¨ Philosophical Reading of Taylor

¨ Branding and Sense

¨ Philosophy Drama

¨ Logical Geography of UK HE Expansion

¨ Decision Making in Marketing

¨ Hermeneutics into Practice

¨ The Moral Economy of Deaning

¨ Managerial Agency and Rationality

¨ The Happy Organisation

Streams

In keeping with the conference approach we especially welcome contributions which reflect philosophically on experience and practice, and which explicitly link theory to practice.

We also invite participants to propose collaborative formats for their sessions: eg paper, prepared reply and moderated discussion; contrasting approaches to an issue with papers from theorists and practitioners. Contributors are welcome to assemble small panels to offer a series of linked papers.

Themes you may wish to consider:

1.	Philosophy and philosophising in the everyday world of work: its uses for organisations and individuals
2.	Notions of criticality in thinking within and about management
3.	Ethical issues for organisations and managers as individuals including work, careers, identity and meaning
4.	Management education: how can and do philosophy, philosophising and philosophers contribute?
5.	Epistemology of management: issues surrounding knowledge, learning, expertise, rationality, emotions, strategic thinking, decision making
6.	Political issues in management: corporate governance and responsibilities; stakeholders and shareholders; justice, democracy and representation at work; the applicability of political concepts to managed organisations
7.	The history of management ideas, their development and philosophical origins
8.	The impact of philosophy and philosophising on management theory, practice and effectiveness
9.	Specific philosophers and their contribution - actual or potential - to management theory and practice
10.	African, Asian, Indian, Latin American and other non-western philosophical approaches to management
11.	Feminist contributions to management theory and practice
12.	Understanding and managing processes of change: what can philosophical thinking tell us about why so many management change initiatives fail and why some succeed?

Publication

The official conference publication is Philosophy of Management (formerly Reason in Practice)

All papers will be considered for publication in the Journal.

Important: Please note that Conference contributions can be accepted only on condition that they have not been published or offered for publication elsewhere and that Philosophy of Management has the right of first refusal to publish them. Submission of a proposal or paper constitutes acceptance of this condition.

Language

The language of the conference will be English.

To Contribute...

Please submit a 500 - 1500 word proposal plus separate contact details and brief cv to arrive by Friday 7 January 2005

Use email if possible to

Proposals05@managementphilosophers.com

Alternatively, send 3 paper copies to

Nigel Laurie

Philosophy of Management

74a Station Road East

Oxted

Surrey RH8 0PG UK

Timetable

7 January	Proposals due
7 February	Contributors informed of acceptance
22 April	Full papers due
6 May	Notification of conference streams, session dates and times, etc
4 June	Final paper text due in electronic form for inclusion in proceedings
11 June	Despatch of conference programme and full set of abstracts to all participants
6 - 10 July	Conference

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.

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