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Developing Philosophy of Management -
Crossing Frontiers

St Anne's College, Oxford
26 - 29 June 2002

 

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Wednesday 26 June
2.00 - 3.30 Registration
3.30 Tea
4.00 Welcome and Introduction

Nigel Laurie

Conference Chair

Editor and Publisher

Reason in Practice: The Journal of Philosophy of Management

4.30 - 6.30

 

 

 

 

Ideas About Organisations

Adhocracy, IT and Nomad Management        

Jim Underwood

Self-Organisation and Value-Based Leadership: A Boy's Game?

Verner Petersen

Chaordic Business Ethics: A New Science Paradigm

Nariman Skakov

 

Management and Business Management

What is a Business?

John Kaler

Management as Ideology: The Case of New Managerialism

Kevin Brehony

Reconciling Different Values and Managing Competing Demands: The ‘Real Worlds’ of Hong Kong's Public Managers

Anthony Cheung

Management Research in Practice

Epistemological and Methodological Issues Regarding the Representation of Theory

Miriam Green

Managing International Development

 

Why Participation and Disagreement is Important in Development: Lessons from

Waldron

Sheelagh O'Reilly

Virtue, Happiness and Competence

Virtue and Happiness in Management: A Spinozistic Approach

Lydia Amir

The Ontology of Human Competence: A Heideggerian Framework

Jorgen Sandberg

6.30 Drinks Reception
7.15 Dinner
8.45 -10.00 Plenary Address

The Challenge of Social Responsibility in Fund Management

Robin Blackburn

Thursday 27 June
8.30 - 10.30

 

Community and Authority

Communities at Work? An Exploration of the Concept of 'Community' in Organisational Analysis

Stephen Bennett

Management Authority in a Worker Co-operative: Tower Colliery

Tom Keenoy

 

Information, Misinformation and Dialogue

Management Misinformation Systems Revisited

David Rossin

Dialogue, Interactive Communication and the Management of Organisations

Leonard Minkes

The Fruitful Use of Silence

Jim Platts

Understanding Practice

Refocusing: A Bergsonian Approach to Organisation

Stephen Linstead

Ideology and Organisation

Yvon Pesqueux

Pierre Bourdieu's Theory of Practice: Its Potential for Management and its Sense of Reason in Practice

Ashly Pinnington

Why Don't Ethics Programmes Work?

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

Andrew Bartlett

 

 

 

 

10.30 Coffee
11.00 - 12.30

 

 

Plenary Address

Knowing How to Manage: Expertise and Embedded Knowledge

Michael Luntley    

     

12.30 Lunch
1.30 - 3.30

Crossing Cultures

The Cultural Dimension of Business Ethics

Gale Prawda

Ubuntu, Isivivane and Uhluhlasa: The Meaning of Leadership and Management in South Africa

Linda van der Colff

Decision-Making and Dialogue

Making Wise Decisions

David Arnaud

Of Clocks and Clouds: A Philosophical Approach to Information Management for Decision-Making

Miriam Rodrig Farhi

Managing: In Whose Interests?

The 'Right To Manage' and the Place of Regulation

Robert McLaren

 

The Bottom Line on Bottom Lines

 

Wayne Norman

Philosophies of the Firm

The Remoralisation of Business

Eva Tsahuridu

The Organisation as Dasein: An Existential Theory of the Firm

Mike Flynn

Governance versus Governing: Philosophical Issues Underpinning Corporate Governance

Xiuping Sun

 

Rules, Systems

and IT

How to Be a Responsible Slave

Emma Rooksby

How Rules Can Frustrate Strategy: A Case Study in the Value of Discretion and Trust

Mark Lemon

Workshop: Towards a Culture of Trust

Jeremy Aitken

3.30 Tea
4.00 - 6.00

 

 

 

 

 

 

Finance, Economics and Ethics

Philosophy and Portfolio Investment

Yally Avrahampour

An Economic Approach to Business Ethics: Systemising Ethics, Ethical Capital and Stakeholder Management

Sigmund Wagner-Tsukamoto

Learning from Karl Popper

Learning from Mistakes in Management: A Popperian Account

Christopher Cowton

Popper and the Science Enterprise Challenge

Jeremy Hall

Methods in Management

Logic and Management:  Possible Applications of Ragin's Methodological Contributions

Ozlem Oz

The Method of Paraphrases in Management

Gabriel Kurczewski

Panel Discussion: What Should Managers Learn?

 

Douglas Griffin

Wayne Norman

Michael Small

Peter Walker

 

 

 

 

Power and Authority

Power and Authority in Management: The Philosophical Approach of Mary Parker Follett

Domenec Mele

Workshop: Making Wise Decisions

Making Wise Decisions: The PROGRESS Method

David Arnaud and Tim LeBon

 

7.00 Dinner
Friday 28 June
8.30 - 10.30

 

 

 

 

Foundations for Ethical Management

Management Integrity Capacity: A Philosophical Foundation for Responsible Managerial Performance

Joseph Petrick

 

 

 

Good Thinking

and Dialogue

Dialogue in Practice: The Quality of Conversation in Professional Groups with Online Support

Anthony Gear

Ethical Corporate Thinking: A Community of Enquiry Model Felicity Haynes

Practising the Virtues of Thinking

Roger Sutcliffe

Paradigms for Management

Toward a Paradigm for Management

Vishwanath Baba

Management as a Moral Art: Emerging from the Paradigm Debate

Adrian Carr

Relationships at Work

The Rights Factor in Management/Employee Relationships

Tom Campbell

Philosophical Insights into Workplace Inequality

Nelarine Cornelius

Standpoints in Organisation Studies

Reconciling Opposites in Organisation Studies: The Case of Modernism and Postmodernism

Marja-Liisa Kakkuri-Knuuttila

The Self in Management

Self, Other & Management

Robert G Crawford

Management Ethics as a Focus for the Development of a Philosophy for Management Education: Levinasian Insights

Edward Trezise

10.30 Coffee
11.00 - 12.30

 

Plenary Address

Value Creation and Trade: A Stakeholder Approach

R Edward Freeman

12.30 - 2.00 Lunch
2.00 - 4.00

 

 

 

 

 

Creating and Managing Knowledge

Towards a Philosophy of Knowledge Management

Judith Broady-Preston

Why Management Theory Needs Popper: The Relevance of Falsification

Mark Moss

Is Double Loop Learning A Reliable Knowledge Creation Process?

Deborah Blackman

Making Sense of Careers

Idealism in the Face of Tragic Realities

Jonathan Gosling

Bringing Virtue to Light: Socratic Midwifery as a Metaphor for Managing Careers

Kevin Morrell

 

 

Making Sustainable Profit

Towards Responsible Profit: A New Market Model

Geoff Roberts

Attitudes of Mind in the World of C West Churchman: The Conjunction of Organisations, Philosophy and Management

Laurie Dickie

 

 

 

Management as Politics

Open Management and its Enemies: the Search for Political Forms in Managed Organisations

Peter Anthony

Tory Political Thought and Radical Management Practice

Ron Beadle

Fear Prudence: Hobbes and Williamson on Why Humans Transact?

Robin Holt

Organisational Ethics and Integrity

Hazards of Developing Organisational Morality

Hans Bennink

Values and Organisational Integrity

Jacob Rendtorff

 

 

Workshop Business Calling: Stories for Leaders

Teaching Leadership and Exploring Values

Leigh Hafrey

 

 

 

 

4.00 Tea
4.30 - 6.00 Plenary Conference Review
8.00 Conference Dinner
Saturday 29 June
8.30 - 10.30

 

 

 

 

 

 

Bringing Philosophy to Managers

Trust is Important but So Is…Or How to Persuade Managers to Study Philosophy

Michael Small

Demonstrating Emergent Properties in the Classroom: A Teaching Aid for Relating Naturalistic Philosophies to the Study of Social Organisation

Rod Thomas

The Carnival as a Healing Art

Community-Based Alternatives to Individualist Stress Management Strategies

Terrence Brathwaite

Justice On The Job

 

Justice On The Job In Interpersonal Conflict

 

Renaud Muller

 

Workshop: Childish Method

Childish Method: The Poverty of Management Methodology

Stephen Smith

10.30 Coffee
11.00 - 12.30 Workshop

Researching Philosophy of Management

and

Getting Published in Reason in Practice

 

Nelarine Cornelius

Nigel Laurie

 

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