Management Philosophy: A Radical-Normative Perspective [Hardcover]

This book opens a new field within business science: management philosophy. It presents an uncompromising picture of the real leader through a set of leadership virtues, focusing on human duties, not on human rights. The book demonstrates that only through philosophy it is possible to establish a genuine science of management, overcoming the pressures of functionalism, opportunism and pragmaticism, inherent in the hyper-modern corporation shaped by high-tech and information advantages.Management or Leadership: Management and Radical Normativity.- Management and Philosophy; The Paradigmatic Connection; The Radical, Methodological and Normative Perspectives.- The Radical, Methodological Perspective: What Words Cannot Do; The Radical, Normative Perspective; Leader or Manager.- The Ideal Type of Management; The Ideal Type of Leadership; To Make the Stakeholder-model Radical: Leadership as Communication, or the Fourth.- Of the Concept of Leading.- Management, Innovation and Cooperation.- The Origin of the Capitalist Production Process; Cooperation and Innovation; Innovation: The Dilemma of Management; Some Aspects of an Ideal Cooperation; Technology of Knowledge : Knowledge from the Point of View of Management-Philosophy.- To Re-create Cooperation: Subcontracting as a Necessity.- Dialogue or Metalogue: The Machine of Dialogue versus the Organic, Inner Monologue.- Of Bodies and Voices; The Principle of Translocutionarity; The Illusion of Representation; Further Epistemological Consequences; But What about Dialogue, Then? And Management via It?; Will and Desire: To Get in and out of the Dialogue, Safely; Irony and Dialogue; The High Hopes of Dialogue; The Virtues of Leadership: Praxis and Hexis.- The Concept of Praxis; Learning; Hexis; Universal versus Professional Virtues; The Virtues of Management and Leadership.- Katorthome and Kathekon; Space and Time in Management: The Spalã4