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Reason in Practice: The Journal of Philosophy of Management
Volume 2 Number 3
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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.
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