The Philosophical Foundations of Management Thought

The Philosophical Foundations of Management Thought

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

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Joullié, Jean-Etienne
Other Authors: Spillane, Robert
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Lanham Lexington Books, 2020.
Subjects:
Management > Philosophy.
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Table of Contents:
  • Cover
  • The Philosophical Foundations of Management Thought
  • The Philosophical Foundations of Management Thought: Revised and Expanded Edition
  • Copyright
  • Dedication
  • Contents
  • Introduction
  • Chapter 1
  • Ancient Heroism
  • Homer's World
  • Homer's Heroes
  • Homer's Man
  • Ancient Heroism Today
  • Peter Drucker
  • Management by Objectives and Self-Control
  • After Drucker
  • Managing, Heroically
  • Notes
  • Further reading
  • Chapter 2
  • Greek Rationalism
  • A World in Transition
  • Plato's Forms
  • The Rule of the Wise
  • Leading from the Psyche
  • Plato's Legacy
  • Plato, C.E.O.
  • Notes
  • Further reading
  • Chapter 3
  • Italian Renaissance
  • Rome and Christianity
  • The Italian Renaissance
  • Niccolò Machiavelli
  • Machiavelli's Virtù
  • Machiavelli's Shadow
  • Machiavelli in the Executive Suite
  • Notes
  • Further reading
  • Chapter 4
  • French Rationalism
  • The Nominalist Challenge
  • The Scientific Revolution
  • René Descartes
  • Cartesian Doubt
  • The Cogito
  • Descartes'S Theology
  • Cartesian Circles
  • Managing Rationally
  • Notes
  • Further reading
  • Chapter 5
  • British Empiricism
  • British Empiricism
  • David Hume: The Study of Human Nature
  • Hume's Fork
  • Causation and Induction
  • Humean Nature
  • Hume's Critics
  • Managing without Nonsense
  • After Hume
  • Notes
  • Further reading
  • Chapter 6
  • Positivism
  • The Positive Philosophy of Auguste Comte
  • The Science of Society
  • Positivism after Comte
  • Managing Positively
  • Positivism and Management Academia
  • Beyond Positivism
  • Notes
  • Further reading
  • Chapter 7
  • Critical Rationalism
  • The Problem of Demarcation
  • The Growth of Scientific Knowledge
  • The Endless Pursuit of Truth
  • The Critique of Historicism and the Case for the Open Society
  • Popperian Science and Management Academia
  • The Logic of Strategic Management Discoveries
  • Critical Irrationalism
  • Notes
  • Further readings
  • Chapter 8
  • German Romanticism
  • The French Enlightenment
  • The German Enlightenment
  • The First Attack on the Enlightenment
  • Immanuel Kant: Reluctant Romantic
  • Johann Fichte: The Apotheosis of the Will
  • Arthur Schopenhauer: The Dark Side of the Will
  • The Romantic Legacy
  • Managing Romantically
  • Notes
  • Further Reading
  • Chapter 9
  • Heroic Individualism
  • The Wanderer and His Shadow
  • History of European Nihilism
  • The Anti-Christ
  • Will to Power
  • Managing Aristocratically
  • Human, All Too Human
  • Notes
  • Further reading
  • Chapter 10
  • Psychoanalysis and Psychiatry
  • Psychoanalysis'S Main Principles
  • Psychoanalysis at Work
  • Freud under Analysis
  • Psychiatry
  • The Myth of Mental Illness
  • Managing Mind
  • Notes
  • Further reading
  • Chapter 11
  • French Existentialism
  • The Fathers of Existentialism
  • Consciousness as Nothingness
  • Condemned to Be Free
  • Freedom and Responsibility at Work
  • The Existentialism of Peter Drucker
  • No Exit
  • Further Criticisms
  • Notes
  • Further reading

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