Why has responsible management been so difficult and why is the chorus of stakeholders demanding such responsibility getting louder? I argue that management learning has been framed within the narrative of economism. As such, I claim that managers need to be aware of the paradigmatic frame of...

In this paper I explore what "working alternatives" to shareholder capitalism could look like. I explore the various understandings and definitions of capitalism and suggest that capitalism may be best understood as rhetorical device. I then explore the current ontological assumptions of...

This chapter argues that management research should dedicate itself to understanding managerial practices that improve the world. The overarching question for humanistic management research is how organizational practices can be transformed to protect and promote human dignity and, ultimately,...

When you enter my business school, a Jesuit business school, the first thing you see is a trading room. It gives visitors the impression that finance is at the heart of business education and that trading is the most important business skill. Unsurprisingly, the standard business program the...

When Sam Walton started his first store in Arkansas in 1945, he wanted to ensure that his family would have a secure and stable income, because he had experienced what it meant growing up poor. In the early 1920s, his family had had to abandon their farm in Oklahoma due to a long drought. Later,...

Humanistic management rests on two cornerstones drawn from the fundamentally different perspective on human nature described before. The notion of dignity and the dignity threshold form one pillar of humanistic management. The notion of well-being forms the second pillar, and is the ultimate...

The main topics of this no. of journal cover a broad area of domains as: management (general, strategic, project, human resources, financial, production, quality, information system, company, foreign investment etc.), public management (good governance, public finance and budgeting, sustainable...

Given the manifold problems of this world, we need ways to actively address them; better forms of organizing are required. I suggest that we need to embrace more humanistic forms of management and move away from economistic ones. This chapter provides a conceptual framework that allows us to get...

The rise of modern corporations has been accompanied by an expansion of salaried executives who have replaced owner-managers. With this expansion, the new class of managers/executives came to regard themselves as stewards of large and complex corporations, and not principally or exclusively as...