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Philosophy and Management Studies

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Author: Search for this author Mir, Raza (author); Greenwood, Michelle (author)
Statement of Responsibility: Raza Mir and Michelle Greenwood
Year: [2022]
Publisher: Abingdon, Routledge; New York, NY, Routledge
Media group: Book/Buch
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Irrespective of whether one thinks of philosophy explicitly, each organizational researcher is a philosopher. A philosophical position is predicated on a variety of approaches relating to ontology, epistemology, methodology, ethics, and political positions. Depending on where one stands with regard to these philosophical building blocks, their orientation may be characterized as positivist, realist, critical-realist and constructivist, with pragmatist and political considerations weighing in as well. Also, management theories all inhabit the same spectrum of philosophical positions that enrich them and add to their relevance to the world of firms and organizations. To that end, this book provides a broad-based commentary on the terrain of philosophy as it pertains to management studies, especially for the relatively unfamiliar organizational theorist. This book provides as a succinct overview of the field of management philosophy as well as a roadmap for to those readers who wish to explore the terrain further. The book argues that all knowledge inquiry invokes philosophy and philosophical thinking, and that the artificial separation between philosophy and social science is fallacious. Just as philosophy is everywhere, so is power, and for better or worse they go hand in hand. Hence, philosophical positions are political positions. The authors do not shy from addressing the politics of their own research practice or the subjects of their inquiry. Philosophy and Management Studies targets a new generation of management researchers, whose interest in philosophy vastly exceeds their resources to engage with it, partly because of their unfamiliarity with its often mystifying and outsider-unfriendly conventions. It seeks to bridge the chasm between interest in philosophy in organizational studies and knowledge about it. It is not for the trained philosopher or the expert, but for a relative newcomer.

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Author: Search for this author Mir, Raza (author); Greenwood, Michelle (author)
Statement of Responsibility: Raza Mir and Michelle Greenwood
Year: [2022]
Publisher: Abingdon, Routledge; New York, NY, Routledge
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Classification: Search for this systematic 2.10.1
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ISBN: 978-1-138-49236-3
ISBN (2nd): 978-1-032-07363-7
Description: xiv, 103 Seiten
Tags: Organization Theory, Philosophy, Management, Organisational Theory, Organisationstheorie, Philosophie, Unternehmensleitung, Unternehmensführung
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Language: eng
Media group: Book/Buch