Vincent Blok

The Critique of Management

Towards a Philosophy and Ethics of Business Management

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book reflects on the nature of business management to contribute to the development of a philosophy and ethics of management. It engages in conceptual engineering of management to delineate the phenomenon of management and, as a result, to open a new perspective on management beyond its self-evident conceptualization.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: CRC Press
• Seitenzahl: 210
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. November 2021
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 14mm
• Gewicht: 467g
• ISBN-13: 9781032137940
• ISBN-10: 1032137940
• Artikelnr.: 62712513

Autorenporträt

Vincent Blok is associate professor in Philosophy of Technology, Business Ethics, and Responsible Innovation, Wageningen University, The Netherlands. He holds a PhD in philosophy of technology from Leiden University. His books include Ernst Jünger's Philosophy of Technology: Heidegger and the Poetics of the Anthropocene (Routledge 2017) and Heidegger's Concept of Philosophical Method: Innovating Philosophy in the Age of Global Warming (Routledge 2019).

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
1. Setting the Scene: Opening Up the Self-Evident Concept of Management
2. Management as Participation, Responsive Action, and Constitution of
Meaning
3. Management as Politico-Economic Governance
4. Management as Non-Reductive Stakeholder Engagement
5. Management as Epistemic Insufficient Entrepreneurship
6. Managing for the Common Good: Toward an Integrated Principle of Business
Ethics
Conclusion