The Critique of Management: Towards a Philosophy and Ethics of Business Management

Cover
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