Philosophical Foundations of Management Thought

The authors provide an overview of major Western philosophies and their significance for managers, management academics, students, and consultants.

List of contents

Introduction
1. Ancient Heroism: Managing Heroically
2. Greek Rationalism: Managing Argumentatively
3. Italian Renaissance: Managing by and for Power
4. French Rationalism: Managing Rationally
5. British Empiricism: Managing Without Nonsense
6. Positivism: Managing Scientifically
7. Critical Rationalism: Managing by Trial and Error
8. German Romanticism: Managing Artistically
9. Heroic Individualism: Managing Aristocratically
10. Psychoanalysis and Psychiatry: Managing Mind
11.French Existentialism: Managing for Freedom and Responsibility
12. American Pragmatism: Making Management Work
13. Postmodernism: Managing Without Foundations
Epilogue: Philosophy as Remedy
Bibliography

About the author

By Jean-Etienne Joullié and Robert Spillane

Product details

• Authors: Jean-Etienne Joullie, Jean-Etienne Spillane Joullie, Jean-Etienne Joullié, Joullié Jean-Etienne, Robert Spillane, Spillane Robert
• Publisher: Rowman and Littlefield
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.10.2020
• EAN: 9781793630155
• ISBN: 978-1-79363-015-5
• No. of pages: 368
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Philosophy; Social sciences, law, business > Business > Management; History of Ideas, PHILOSOPHY / History & Surveys / General, Philosophy, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Management, PHILOSOPHY / Methodology, Management & management techniques, History of philosophy, philosophical traditions