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Philosophy of Management - Journal issue details Reason in Practice: The Journal of Philosophy of Management Volume 2 Number 3 Full details of the above issue are now available on the journal website at http://www.managementphilosophers.com/Article Summaries and Author Profiles Volume 2 2002.htm We welcome orders for single issues as well as subscriptions. Single article reprints for personal or teaching use are also available. For details go to http://www.managementphilosophers.com/Obtaining the Journal.htm CONTENTS Editorial: Knowing How to Manage KNOWING HOW TO MANAGE Michael Luntley Professor of Philosophy, University of Warwick Michael Luntley offers a new philosophical model of how managers know. Knowing How to Manage: Expertise and Embedded Knowledge argues that their expert knowledge is embedded in interactions with the environment and cannot be fully specified in or by procedures. He concludes that trying to manage managers by imposing detailed targets ignores both the dynamic and contextual nature of their expertise and the level at which it functions. DOING JUSTICE TO SOLIDARITY: HOW NGOS SHOULD COMMUNICATE Juan Luis Martinez Professor of Marketing, Instituto de Empresa, Madrid In Doing Justice to Solidarity Juan Luis Martinez urges NGOs to understand and stay true to their unique status and align their marketing with their mission. Negative images of recurrent disasters amount to 'demagogic sentimentalism' and produce 'a superficially informed compassion or guilt' leading to 'compassion fatigue'. Outlining a communication strategy that respects the rationality of its audience, he offers NGO managers the prospect of making their marketing more productive and their income stream more stable. ARE ECONOMIC DECISIONS RATIONAL? PATH DEPENDENCE, LOCK-IN AND 'HINGE' PROPOSITIONS Duncan Pritchard Lecturer in Philosophy, University of Stirling The long-debated notion of economic rationality is tackled by Duncan Pritchard. His new account of path dependence draws on Wittgenstein's notion of the 'hinge' proposition and offers the hope of progress in settling whether path dependence is genuine and economically significant. A MANAGER'S PHILOSOPHICAL DIARY Sheelagh O'Reilly World Bank/Government of Vietnam Northern Mountains Poverty Reduction Programme Sheelagh O'Reilly’s continuing Diary from Vietnam reflects on how technology is applied in development contexts. She urges managers to acquire greater self-knowledge and respect for local knowledge. TOWARDS CONSTRUCTIVE CORPORATE GOVERNANCE: FROM 'CERTAINTIES' TO A PLURALITY PRINCIPLE John Dixon Professor of International Social Policy, University of Plymouth and Rhys Dogan Lecturer in Politics, University of Plymouth Understanding and dealing with failure in management is the concern of John Dixon and Rhys Dogan. They present four contending accounts of corporate governance, each fundamentally flawed in its underlying premises. Each posits a set of corporate governance ‘certainties’ incompatible with the others and when a failure of governance occurs, trench warfare between governors and governed follows unless the competing interests and desires are confronted and integrated. SYSTEMS THINKING: A PHILOSOPHY OF MANAGEMENT Paul Dearey Lecturer in Ethics, University of Hull Paul Dearey shows how philosophical interpretation of the practice of systemic intervention can help those who manage such interventions in organisations to better understand the nature and potential of what they do. Please note that future issues will appear under the new title: Philosophy of Management With best wishes Nigel Laurie Editor and Publisher Philosophy of Management (formerly Reason in Practice) 74a Station Road East Oxted Surrey RH8 0PG United Kingdom [log in to unmask] tel/fax +44 (0)1883 715419 Visit our website: www.managementphilosophers.com Join the MANAGEMENTPHILOSOPHERS Discussion List. Email: [log in to unmask] with the following message: SUBSCRIBE MANAGEMENTPHILOSOPHERS and leave the subject line blank.