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Philosophy and Management Studies - A Research Overview (Hardcover)
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Philosophy and Management Studies - A Research Overview (Hardcover)
Series: State of the Art in Business Research
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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. 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 serves as a succinct
overview of the field of management philosophy as well as a roadmap
for 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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