The Routledge Companion to Philosophy in Organization Studies

by Raza Mir

Author	: Raza Mir
Publisher	: Routledge
Total Pages	: 990
Release	: 2015-11-06
Genre	: Business & Economics
ISBN	: 1134466080

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The Routledge Companion to Philosophy in Organization Studies provides a wide-ranging overview of the significance of philosophy in organizations. The volume brings together a veritable "who’s-who" of scholars that are acclaimed international experts in their specialist subject within organizational studies and philosophy. The contributions to this collection are grouped into three distinct sections: Foundations - exploring philosophical building blocks with which organizational researchers need to become familiar. Theories - representing some of the dominant traditions in organizational studies, and how they are dealt with philosophically. Topics – examining the issues, themes and topics relevant to understanding how philosophy infuses organization studies. Primarily aimed at students and academics associated with business schools and organizational research, The Routledge Companion to Philosophy in Organization Studies is a valuable reference source for anyone engaged in this field.

Elements of a Philosophy of Management and Organization

by Peter Koslowski

Author	: Peter Koslowski
Publisher	: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages	: 202
Release	: 2010-03-10
Genre	: Business & Economics
ISBN	: 3642111408

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Managing as a form of human action has an inherent link with philosophy, which is also concerned with choosing the right action and the best way to lead our lives. Management theory and philosophy can join forces in epistemology (the philosophy of knowledge), ethics, and cultural theory. The epistemology of management concerns the question of how management can improve its ability to create knowledge about managing companies and about using management theory in the task of managing. Management ethics investigates the question of what the right management actions are. The cultural theory of management examines how corporate culture can increase the cooperation within the firm and how the cultural surplus value of products and brand management can increase the firm’s value creation in its products. This book introduces the readers to central approaches in this new field, which represents a synthesis of management and philosophical theory.

Philosophy and Organization Theory

by Haridimos Tsoukas

Author	: Haridimos Tsoukas
Publisher	: Emerald Group Publishing
Total Pages	: 394
Release	: 2011-02-03
Genre	: Social Science
ISBN	: 0857245961

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What is the relationship between philosophy and organization theory (OT)? This title includes the papers that explore connections between several streams in philosophy and OT. It explores the question: What does a particular philosophy contribute to OT?

The Oxford Handbook of Process Philosophy and Organization Studies

by Jenny Helin

Author	: Jenny Helin
Publisher	: OUP Oxford
Total Pages	: 731
Release	: 2014-05-15
Genre	: Business & Economics
ISBN	: 0191648108

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Process approaches to organization studies focus on flow, activities, and evolution, understanding organizations and organizing as processes in the making. They stand in contrast to positivist approaches that see organizations and phenomena as fixed, static, and measurable. Process approaches draw on a range of ideas and philosophies. The Handbook examines 34 philosophers and social theorists, both those commonly linked to process thinking, such as Whitehead, Bergson and James, and those that are not as often addressed from a process perspective such as Dilthey and Tarde. Each chapter addresses the background and context of this thinker, their work (with a focus on the processual elements), and the potential contribution to organization and management research. For students and scholars in the field of Organization Studies this book is an entry point into the work of philosophical thinkers and social theorists for whom the world is far from being a solid place.

The Theory and Philosophy of Organizations

by John Hassard

Author	: John Hassard
Publisher	: Routledge
Total Pages	: 290
Release	: 2012-11-12
Genre	: Social Science
ISBN	: 1135083916

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The Theory and Philosophy of Organizations makes a major contribution to the debate on the status of organizational theory as a discipline. The volume is divided into three sections exploring issues under the headings `theory', `anasis' and `philosophy'. In each, the limitations of `traditional' or `scientific' organizational paradigms are illuminated and new forms of interpretation offered.

Organizational Project Management

by Ralf Müller

Author	: Ralf Müller
Publisher	: Edward Elgar Publishing
Total Pages	: 296
Release	: 2019
Genre	: Business & Economics
ISBN	: 1788110978

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This concise text introduces an integrated view of all project management-related activities in an organization, called Organizational Project Management (OPM). Practical cases from several organizations, as well as popular theories such as the Resource-Based Theory and Institutional Theory provide for an insightful yet realistic understanding of OPM as an integrative tool for organizations to improve their efficiency and effectiveness.

Organization Philosophy

by T. Scott

Author	: T. Scott
Publisher	: Springer
Total Pages	: 208
Release	: 2010-03-25
Genre	: Business & Economics
ISBN	: 0230277551

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An affirmative post-structural philosophy of organisation inspired by Arnold Gehlen's philosophical anthropology, Michel Foucault's history of medicine and Gille Deleuze's early philosophical works. This book offers a deep and detailed analysis of the problems faced and their solutions.

Up the Organization

by Robert C. Townsend

Author	: Robert C. Townsend
Publisher	: John Wiley & Sons
Total Pages	: 210
Release	: 2011-01-06
Genre	: Business & Economics
ISBN	: 1118047362

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Although it was first published more than thirty-five years ago, Up the Organization continues to top the lists of best business books by groups as diverse as the American Management Association, Strategy + Business (Booz Allen Hamilton), and The Wharton Center for Leadership and Change Management. 1-800-CEO-READ ranks Townsend’s bestseller first among eighty books that “every manager must read.” This commemorative edition offers a new generation the benefit of Robert Townsend’s timeless wisdom as well as reflections on his work and life by those who knew and worked with him. This groundbreaking book continues to remind us not to get mired in all those sacred organizational routines that stifle people and strangle both profits and profitability. He shows a way to humanize business and a way to have fun while making it all work better than it ever worked before.

Selected Writings on Self-organization, Philosophy, Bioethics, and Judaism

by Henri Atlan

Author	: Henri Atlan
Publisher	: Fordham Univ Press
Total Pages	: 481
Release	: 2011
Genre	: Medical
ISBN	: 082323181X

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During the last thirty years, biophysicist and philosopher Henri Atlan has been a major voice in contemporary European philosophical and bio-ethical debates. In a massive oeuvre that ranges from biology and neural network theory to Spinoza's thought and the history of philosophy, and from artificial intelligence and information theory to Jewish mysticism and to contemporary medical ethics, Atlan has come to offer an exceptionally powerful philosophical argumentation that is as hostile to scientism as it is attentive to biology's conceptual and experimental rigor, as careful with concepts of rationality as it is committed to rethinking the human place in a radically determined yet forever changing world. --Book Jacket.