First, management schools need to concern themselves with these foundations since those who are interested in management thought will only be able to understand and communicate it effectively if they appreciate its assumptions and their consequences. This contention has two notable consequences.
It argues that the concepts which are the bread and butter of theorists and practitioners of management have direct, if often unrecognised, philosophical foundations. These endeavours assume without argument that management knowledge (theoretical, practical, moral and aesthetic) is derived from and cannot exist outside of philosophical frameworks. Independently of these developments, the literature on business ethics has long drawn from philosophy and continues to engage with its different perspectives. Two journals, Philosophy of Management and the International Journal of Management Concepts and Philosophy, have since been established with comparable intentions. Thomas Lynch and Todd Dicker broke new ground in 1998 when they attempted to show, in their (somewhat surprisingly titled) Handbook of Organization Theory and Management: The Philosophical Approach, that public administration can be united with philosophy. The last fifteen years have seen the slow emergence of a body of literature which argues that management academics, students and managers benefit from the study of philosophy. The success of this book will be theirs, its failure ours. This book would have never come to being without the unquestioning support of our respective partners. We are extremely grateful to Joseph Parry, Sarah Craig, and Emily Roderick of Lexington Books for their patience and understanding, which have been repeatedly tested. Putting our ideas in writing was not only pleasurable but indeed liberating it will be our greatest reward if our readers have similar experiences. Much needs to change and this book is a contribution to this effort. Collectively, businessmen and managers hold more sway on the Western world’s future than any other social class this future deserves better than what management academia has been able to offer to date. Its substance finds its origins in courses that we have been fortunate to teach but which, to the despair of our students, were without suitable reading material. This book is a declaration of love of philosophy, which we hope will be contagious. To Corentin, Tin Su Su Winn, Katherine, and Our Bright-Eyed StudentsĪncient Heroism: Managing Heroically Greek Rationalism: Managing Truthfully Italian Renaissance: Managing For and By Power French Rationalism: Managing Rationally British Empiricism: Managing Empirically Positivism: Managing Scientifically I Critical Rationalism: Managing Scientifically II German Romanticism: Managing as an Artist Heroic Individualism: Managing as an Aristocrat Psychoanalysis and Psychiatry: Managing Mind French Existentialism: Managing, Freedom and Responsibility Postmodernism: Managing Without Foundationsġ 21 41 63 89 115 137 165 191 215 239 265 paper) 978-0-7391-8603-9 (electronic) TM The paper used in this publication meets the minimum requirements of American National Standard for Information Sciences Permanence of Paper for Printed Library Materials, ANSI/NISO Z39.48-1992. British Library Cataloguing in Publication Information Available Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Available ISBN 978-0-7391-8602-2 (cloth : alk. No part of this book may be reproduced in any form or by any electronic or mechanical means, including information storage and retrieval systems, without written permission from the publisher, except by a reviewer who may quote passages in a review. 4501 Forbes Boulevard, Suite 200, Lanham, Maryland 20706 Unit A, Whitacre Mews, 26-34 Stannary Street, London SE11 4AB Copyright © 2015 by Lexington Books All rights reserved. Published by Lexington Books An imprint of The Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group, Inc. The Philosophical Foundations of Management Thought Jean-Etienne Joullié and Robert Spillane The Philosophical Foundations of Management Thought
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