You are invited to reserve your place at MANAGING IN CRITICAL TIMES: 
PHILOSOPHICAL RESPONSES TO ORGANISATIONAL TURBULENCE
The Fifth International Philosophy of Management Conference    
St Anne’s College, Oxford  23 – 26 July 2009

The programme is as follows and a booking form is below.

PROGRAMME

THURSDAY 23 July

2.00 - 3.30	Registration
3.30	Tea           
	
4.00	Welcome 
Nigel Laurie Editor Philosophy of Management
		
4.15	Room A	
Is it a Crash or the Apocalypse – or just the Film of your Life? 
Philosophy and the Bounds of Organisational Disaster Doug Foster

Embracing Uncertainty
Tuomas Kuronen	

Room B
Crisis and Philosophy: How the Underlying Philosophy Impacts the Perception 
and Resolution of a Crisis 
Heiko Spitzeck and Claus Dierksmeier 

Vedantic Response To Organisational Turbulence 
Bidyut Kr Sarkar

7.00	Drinks Reception 
7.30	Dinner

FRIDAY 24 July

8.30	Panel Introduction to the day

9.00 Room A	
The Musical Workplace: Expressing Personal Commitment Without Reference to
Money 
Søren Frimodt-Møller 

Redescribing Project Management: Irony, Authenticity and Tradition
Bradley Rolfe	

Room B
Professionalise or Perish: Some of the Responses of Academic Journal 
Editors to the Changing Context of the New Higher Education 
Alexandra Bristow

Presenting Philosophical Ideas to Greek MBA Students Christos Athanasoulis

11.00	Coffee

11.30 - 12.45  Plenary Address	
Global Benchmarking and a Scottish Management Philosophy: 
Shared Thoughts and Values in the Leadership of Postsecondary Education 
Craig Thomson 
Principal, Adam Smith College, Kirkcaldy, Fife

1.00  	 Lunch
			
2.00 Room A              	
Marcus Aurelius Workshop
Barre Fitzpatrick

o	Introduction and background. The historical and geographical setting

of the Meditations. Carnuntum, the Danube, and the notion of limes.
o	Prosoche: the practice of attentiveness. 
o	Meditation 2: Gratitude. Silent reflection followed by group
reflection.
o	Meditation 3: The Flight of the Soul. Silent reflection followed by
group reflection.	

Room B
Ethical Capital: Does it exist? 
Andreas Hoecht

'Can you lend me a £1000 quid?' (This poem won £1): 
50 Years of Changing Perceptions of Accumulation 
David Preston and Tom Claes

When The Going Gets Tough, The Tough Stick to Their Principles: 
Consistent Ethics as the Bases of Managerial Legitimacy in Times of Crisis
Vineet Sahu	

Room C
Doctoral Colloquium: Applying Process Philosophy to Management 
Mark Dibben

3.40	Tea

4.00 	Room A
Marcus Aurelius Workshop (concluded)
o	Meditation 4: Death. Silent reflection followed by group reflection.
o	The 3 Disciplines of the Soul as daily praxis.
o	Finish.		

Room B
Corporate Social Responsibility in a Crisis and in Crisis 
Eva E Tsahuridu

Corporation in Crisis: What We Can Infer from Our Understanding 
of the Corporation
Nirbhay Mishra	

Room C
Doctoral Colloquium (concluded)

6.00	Reflective Review of the day: 
7.00	Dinner

SATURDAY 25 July

8.30	Panel Introduction to the day: 
	
9.00 Room A	
	
Risk Management and Intangible Assets
Mullins O’Regan

Deployment of Innovation in the Financial Services Sector, 
Against a Background of Crisis, and the Effect on Employees’ Morale and
Motivation
Xavier Pavie	

Room B
Wisdom and Happiness in Late Modern Work Life?
Olav Eikeland

The Problem of Many Hands
Jessica Nihlen Fahlquist

11.00	Coffee

11.30    Plenary Address
International Management as Spiritual Process: 
Some Implications of the Inter-Cultural Approach 
David Weir 
Professor of Intercultural ManagementLiverpool Hope University

1.00  Lunch
	
2.00	Room A	
Recognising Global Stakeholders’ Rights: The Example of Islam 
Martin Kelly & Arnis Vilks

Humanism in Business: Towards a Paradigm Shift?
Michael Pirson and Paul R Lawrence

Ethical Capital – The Zeitgeist in the Zeitgeist of Social Entrepreneurship!
Mike Bull	

Room B
Leading without Leaders? A Process Perspective Mark Dibben

What Lessons Might Be Distilled from the Great Crash of 2008?
Rod Thomas

Cross-Sector Partnerships and City Regeneration from a 
Capabilities Perspective 
Nelarine Cornelius & James Wallace

3.30	Tea

4.00	Room A
Business Ethics Is Not Enough. Why We Need Philosophy of Management 
Markus Scholz

Toward a Dialogue on the Nature of Ethical Discernment  
Andrea Hornett	

Room B
Re-Examining Fayol: Commander and Diriger 93 Years On 
Geoff Goldman (presented by Whitey van der Linde)

If Max Weber Were Your CEO...
Wim Vandekerckhove

5.30	Reflective Review of the day
7.00	Pre-dinner drinks and Conference Dinner

SUNDAY 26 July

9.00	Rethinking Management: Wealth, Well Being, Freedom and
Responsibility
Claus Dierksmeier and Michael Pirson

11.00	Coffee
	
11.30 	Rethinking Management: Wealth, Well Being, Freedom and
Responsibility
Panel and plenary discussion

12.45  	Concluding Remarks
Nigel LaurieEditor
Philosophy of Management

1.00  	 Lunch and depart


BOOKING

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Managing In Critical Times: Philosophical Responses to Organisational
Turbulence The Fifth International Philosophy of Management Conference
23 – 26 July 2009   
St Anne’s College, Oxford

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The Residential Conference fee includes 3 nights accommodation at St Anne's
College, all meals, teas, coffees, conference dinner, drinks reception,
conference documentation, cd of abstracts and parallel session papers.

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