The critique of management toward a philosophy and ethics of business management
"This book reflects on the nature of business management to contribute to the development of a philosophy and ethics of management. It engages in conceptual engineering of management to delineate the phenomenon of management and, as a result, to open a new perspective on management beyond its s...
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| Formato: | Libro electrónico |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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New York, NY :
Routledge
[2022]
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| Edición: | 1st ed |
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| Ver en Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull: | https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009701332306719 |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Intro
- Endorsements
- Half Title
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- 1 What Is Management?
- 2 Research Questions, Task, and Main Contributions of This Study
- 3 Design of the Study
- Notes
- 1. Setting the Scene: Opening Up the Self-evident Concept of Management
- 4 Xenophon's Philosophy of Management
- Establishment and Governance of a Functioning Order of the Business in Order to Make Profit
- Establishment and Governance of a Functioning Order of the Business in order to Evoke Public Admiration
- Establishment and Governance of a Functioning Order of the Business to Serve Both Private and Public Interests
- Engagement in the Business Operations via Direct Labour
- Engagement in the Business Operations via the Work Done by Other People
- Training and Teaching of Employees and Middle Managers
- Acknowledgement of the Fundamental Limitations of Management and the Role of Risk and Misforture
- Proper Asset Management in order to Increase Profit and Pleasure
- Proper Asset Management in order to Serve Society
- 5 Key Requirements of Business Managers According to Xenophon
- Knowledge Involved in Management Practices
- Skills Involved in Management Practices
- Virtues Involved in Business Management
- 6 Questioning the Self-evident Conceptualization of Management from the Perspective of Xenophon's Philosophy of Management
- Management for Profit
- Management as Managerial Power
- Management as Mechanism of Control
- 7 Questioning the Self-evident Conceptualization of Management from the Perspective of the Grand Challenges of Our Time
- Management as Establishment and Governance of a Functioning Order
- People Management
- Management as Entrepreneurial Action
- Key Knowledge, Skills, and Virtues of the Business Manager
- Conclusion
- Notes.
- 2. Management as Participation, Responsive Action, and Constitution of Meaning
- 8 Management as Participation
- 9 Management as Resistance and Responsive Action
- 10 Management as Constitution of Meaning
- Conclusion
- Notes
- 3. Management as Politico-economic Governance
- 11 Management as Corporate Governance and the Perspectives of Economics and Politics
- 12 Agamben's Genealogy of Governance and its Application in Governance Practices
- 13 Philosophical Reflections on Management as Politico-economic Governance of the Business Operations
- Conclusion
- Notes
- 4. Management as Non-reductive Stakeholder Engagement
- 14 Identify, Unity, and Difference in CSPs and Collaborations
- Managing CSPs and Collaborations
- Managing the Process of Partnership Implementation: Three Questions with Regard to Unity, Identity, and Difference in the Process of Partnership Formation and Implementation
- 15 Identity, Unity, and Difference in the Philosophical Tradition
- 16 The Metaphysics of Collaboration: Identity, Unity, and Difference in CSPs and Collaboration
- 17 Towards and Ethics of Non-reductive Stakeholder Engagement, Collaboration, and Partnership in Management Practices
- The Social-Ethical Relationships in Stakeholder Engagement, Collaboration, and Partnerships
- Performance of Ethical Behaviour in Stakeholder Engagement, Collaborations, and Partnerships
- Self-destruction and Self-constitution in Stakeholder Engagement, Collaborations, and Partnerships
- Structural Possibility of Failure in Stakeholder Engagement, Collaborations, and Partnerships
- Conclusion
- Notes
- 5. Management as Epistemic Insufficient Entrepreneurship
- 18 The Paradox of Sustainable Entrepreneurship
- The Role of Information in Collective Actions for Sustainable Development
- The Role of Information in the Entrepreneurial Process.
- 19 Towards an Integrated Theory of Management as Epistemic Insufficient Entrepreneurship
- Information Asymmetry as Epistemic Insufficiency
- Implications of Entrepreneurs' Epistemic Insufficiency for an Integrated Concept of Sustainable Entrepreneurship
- Conclusion
- Note
- 6. Managing for the Common Good: Towards an Integrated Principle of Business Ethics
- 20 Towards an Integrated Principle of Business Ethics
- Management as Participation
- Management as Resistance and Responsive Action
- Management as Constitution of Meaning
- Management as Politico-Economic Governance
- Management as Non-Reductive Stakeholder Engagement
- Management as Epistemic Insufficient Entrepreneurship
- Conclusion: The Integrated Principle of Business Ethics
- 21 Key Requirements of Business Managers: Individual Virtuous Competence
- The Concept of Individual Competence
- The Role of Moral Competence in the Management of Grand Challenges of Our Time
- Virtue Ethics
- The Relation Between Virtues and Competencies
- A Virtue Ethical Perspective on Normative and Action Competence
- Virtuous Competence for Responsible Business Practices
- 22 Institutionalizing Business Ethics: Performative Corporate Codes
- John Austin and the Speech Act Theory
- Characteristics of a Performative Concept of Corporate Codes
- Towards a Performative Concept of Corporate Codes in Business
- Conclusion
- Notes
- 7. Conclusion
- References
- Index.
