Management Philosophy: A Radical-Normative Perspective / Edition 1

by Ole F. Kirkeby

Overview

This book opens a new field within business science: management philosophy. It presents an uncompromising picture of the real leader through a set of leadership virtues, focusing on human duties, not on human rights. The book demonstrates that only through philosophy it is possible to establish a genuine science of management, overcoming the pressures of functionalism, opportunism and pragmaticism, inherent in the hyper-modern corporation shaped by high-tech and information advantages.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9783540668923
Publisher:	Springer Berlin Heidelberg
Publication date:	04/26/2000
Edition description:	2000
Pages:	274
Product dimensions:	6.14(w) x 9.21(h) x 0.03(d)

Table of Contents

Management or Leadership: Management and Radical Normativity.- Management and Philosophy; The Paradigmatic Connection; The Radical, Methodological and Normative Perspectives.- The Radical, Methodological Perspective: What Words Cannot Do; The Radical, Normative Perspective; Leader or Manager.- The Ideal Type of Management; The Ideal Type of Leadership; To Make the Stakeholder-model Radical: Leadership as Communication, or the Fourth.- Of the Concept of Leading.- Management, Innovation and Cooperation.- The Origin of the Capitalist Production Process; Cooperation and Innovation; Innovation: The Dilemma of Management; Some Aspects of an Ideal Cooperation; "Technology of Knowledge": Knowledge from the Point of View of Management-Philosophy.- To Re-create Cooperation: Subcontracting as a Necessity.- Dialogue or Metalogue: The Machine of Dialogue versus the Organic, Inner Monologue.- Of Bodies and Voices; The Principle of Translocutionarity; The Illusion of Representation; Further Epistemological Consequences; But What about Dialogue, Then? And Management via It?; Will and Desire: To Get in and out of the Dialogue, Safely; Irony and Dialogue; The High Hopes of Dialogue; The Virtues of Leadership: Praxis and Hexis.- The Concept of Praxis; Learning; Hexis; Universal versus Professional Virtues; The Virtues of Management and Leadership.- Katorthome and Kathekon; Space and Time in Management: The Space of Management and Leadership.- Chora; The Time of Management and Leadership.- The Concept of Influence; What It Means to Be Inside or Outside and Event; The Problem of the Ontology of the Event; Kairos; Kairology; The Drama of Decisions. The Theatre as a Metaphor of the Union of Time and Place: The Play of Fate.- The Myth and the Saga.- The Narrative: The Theatre of Memory and the Aestetic Energy of Management and Leadership.

Editorial Reviews

From the revies of the Danish edition:

"The Philosophy of Management is a distinguished pleasure and a dead sure challenge to the mind."

Kim Bach in Berlingske Tidende, July 12, 1998

"Important danish book about the philosophy of management (...). At a time where the field of management is running riot with new techniques and concepts in quick succession of one another and whose novelty value is questionable - but which on the other hand we have to relate to and work with in practice - there is more than ever a need of reflection and a basis, a need of discussion on some fundamental ideas and virtues within the field of management. Ole Fogh Kirkeby's book complies with these needs in an outstanding way. (...) The book is most welcome."

Prof. Steen Hildebrandt in Borsen, June 5, 1998

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