{"title":"Goods","authors":"Kelvin T. Knight","doi":"10.5840/pom20087110","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5840/pom20087110","url":null,"abstract":"AbstractParts 1 to 3 of this paper explore the theoretical rationale and ethical significance of Alasdair MacIntyre’s twin distinctions between goods internal and external to practices and between goods of excellence and of effectiveness. Parts 4 and 5 then relate this analysis to his critique of contemporary institutions, compartmentalisation and management. My argument is that these concepts express a teleological theory of why and how goods should be ordered which, in refusing to identify practical rationality with institutional actuality and instead differentiating between rival traditions, progresses beyond the theories of Aristotle and of other, past and present anglophone Aristotelians.","PeriodicalId":54136,"journal":{"name":"Philosophy of Management","volume":"7 1","pages":"107-122"},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2021-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.5840/pom20087110","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"71212789","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Philosophy of ManagementPub Date : 2021-01-01Epub Date: 2020-11-09DOI: 10.1007/s40926-020-00154-w
Greg Latemore
{"title":"COVID and the Common Good.","authors":"Greg Latemore","doi":"10.1007/s40926-020-00154-w","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s40926-020-00154-w","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>This article examines the nature of individual goods, public goods, and the common good in the context of the Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID). 'Common' in 'common good' is what applies to all persons without exception, and 'good' is what contributes to human flourishing. The common good is regarded as the communion of persons in good living. Addressing the relationship between the economy and society, it is proposed that the marketplace subsists within society. Acknowledging that we are deeply connected, the article employs the philosophies of MacIntyre, Maritain and Sandel to highlight the importance of reciprocity, relationships, and generosity as characteristics of the common good. Two narratives in the public discourse are observed in these COVID days - one characterised by fear and selfishness, the other by hope and generosity. The author recognises that this pandemic can be conceived as a 'wicked' problem in a 'volatile, uncertain, complex, and ambiguous' world, and implications for leaders and citizens in managing COVID are suggested.</p>","PeriodicalId":54136,"journal":{"name":"Philosophy of Management","volume":"20 3","pages":"257-269"},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2021-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7649297/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"38606684","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Philosophy of ManagementPub Date : 2021-01-01Epub Date: 2020-11-09DOI: 10.1007/s40926-020-00152-y
Donald Nordberg
{"title":"Art in Corporate Governance: a Deweyan Perspective on Board Experience.","authors":"Donald Nordberg","doi":"10.1007/s40926-020-00152-y","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s40926-020-00152-y","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Corporate governance sits at the intersection of many disciplines, among them law, business, management, finance, and accounting. The point of departure for large portions of this literature concerns the ugliness of greed, ambition, misdemeanors, and malfeasance of corporations, their directors, and those actors who hold shares in them. This essay takes a rather different starting point. Drawing upon insights from a distant field, it uses the discussion of aesthetics in Dewey's treatise on art to ask what motivates directors to act in ways that constitute the attention and engagement that we associate with the effectiveness of boards. Using Dewey's thinking about aesthetic experience, this paper examines the experience of organization boards, both in the literature and in the personal experience of the author. These observations point to need to reflect on motivation when considering both the practice of corporate governance and the policy frameworks in which it operates.</p>","PeriodicalId":54136,"journal":{"name":"Philosophy of Management","volume":"20 3","pages":"337-353"},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2021-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1007/s40926-020-00152-y","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"38606685","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Long Shadow of Fatalism: a Philosophical Speculation on Forster's \"the Machine Stops\" (1909) on the Disintegration of Technologically Advanced Societies Back Then and Today.","authors":"Peter Seele","doi":"10.1007/s40926-021-00165-1","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s40926-021-00165-1","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>EM Forster's short story \"The Machine Stops\" from 1909 is widely reread and discussed again for some ten years as it portrays a science-fiction world resting on similar technological advancements as today in the digital era. Also management literature reviewed the short story with regard to centralized decision making, rationality and totalitarianism. I argue instead, that the main theme of the short story is - in Forster's own words - the closing of a civilization in times of transition and facing major challenges. I built the argument by original quotes from Forster and by portraying the years 1906-9, when Forster developed the short story. This era before the Great War starting in 1914 was characterized by euphoric 'futurism' based on groundbreaking innovations like 'long distance messaging', 'penny post', 'animated films', Ford's assembly line, 'Olivetti typewriter', 'feature film', 'large ships' and 'air transportation' - the ingredients of the short story as I argue. At the same time these acquitted years were characterized by increasing disintegration, instability, rebellions and a financial crisis with bailout programs. Based on the analogy and as part of speculative philosophy I reconstruct the current great challenges with Forster' shadow of fatalism and arrive at the urgency to put more effort in addressing and researching pathways out of the crisis and towards stabilization of business and society.</p>","PeriodicalId":54136,"journal":{"name":"Philosophy of Management","volume":"20 4","pages":"431-439"},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2021-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1007/s40926-021-00165-1","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"9344498","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Is Global Management Knowledge on the Way to Impoverishment?","authors":"A. A. Bachkirov","doi":"10.1007/s40926-020-00153-x","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s40926-020-00153-x","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":54136,"journal":{"name":"Philosophy of Management","volume":"20 1","pages":"219 - 248"},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2020-10-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1007/s40926-020-00153-x","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"52978524","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Business and Human Rights, from Theory to Practice and Law to Morality: Taking a Philosophical Look at the Proposed UN Treaty","authors":"A. Pascal","doi":"10.1007/s40926-020-00150-0","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s40926-020-00150-0","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":54136,"journal":{"name":"Philosophy of Management","volume":"20 1","pages":"167 - 200"},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2020-10-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1007/s40926-020-00150-0","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47040202","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
P. Hanafizadeh, Mohammad Mehrabioun, Ali Mostasharirad
{"title":"The Necessary and Sufficient Conditions for the Solution of Soft Systems Methodology","authors":"P. Hanafizadeh, Mohammad Mehrabioun, Ali Mostasharirad","doi":"10.1007/s40926-020-00149-7","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s40926-020-00149-7","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":54136,"journal":{"name":"Philosophy of Management","volume":"20 1","pages":"135 - 166"},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2020-09-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1007/s40926-020-00149-7","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41982289","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Consumer Complaining Behavior: a Paradigmatic Review","authors":"S. Arora, A. Chakraborty","doi":"10.1007/s40926-020-00148-8","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s40926-020-00148-8","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":54136,"journal":{"name":"Philosophy of Management","volume":"20 1","pages":"113 - 134"},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2020-09-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1007/s40926-020-00148-8","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47604223","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}