"This book invites readers on an intellectual journey where the great minds of philosophy intersect with contemporary organizational challenges. With classical and modern philosophical thought as its backbone, Philosophy and Management: Great Minds and Organizational Ideas demonstrates that the...

Financial performance research has increasingly intersected with philosophical debates on ethics, sustainability, and stakeholder value, yet a clear framework linking these perspectives to actionable financial metrics remains underdeveloped. This study aims to explore how philosophical...

This study explores how individual moral philosophies influence accountants' ethical perceptions of earnings management risk, addressing the broader question of how moral reasoning interacts with the cultural environment in shaping financial reporting decisions. Although accounting standards...

This work offers the first comprehensive comparison between the philosophy of Adam Smith and that of his successor, Thomas Reid. It looks at Reid's and Smith's remarkably similar accounts of human perception and judgement, and at their different moral and economic theories. In this way, this...

In the Theory of Moral Sentiments, Smith argued against the account of human nature which views moral sentiments as deriving from self-love. This paper emphasises that Smith's understanding of human nature was not that it was either selfish or benevolent. Human nature consists of the ability to...

This essay examines the contemporary discourse on inflation through the lens of Wittgenstein's late work on language games. Using his concept of hinge propositions - beliefs upon which language games depend - I offer a novel perspective on the public good that is price stability. In particular,...

This article interprets Kant from an ordonomic perspective: How does Kant think, and why does he think the way he does? - Kant seeks to ground human dignity. To this end, he conceives the idea of thinking the supreme principle of morality as an end that is at the same time a duty. He thus...

The renewed engagement with Aristotle's concept of practical wisdom in management and organization studies is reflective of the wider turn towards practice sweeping across many disciplines. In this sense, it constitutes a welcome move away from the traditional rationalist, abstract, and...

General Introduction -- PART I – Classic Evoluntionism -- Chapter 1 – Justice and Law for the Eighteen-Century Scottish Enlightenment -- Chapter 2 – Law for Friedrich A. Hayek -- Chapter 3 – Main Contributions of Classic Evolutionism to the Study of Law -- PART II –New Evolutionary...

Chapter 1: Introduction The Importance of Sensemaking for Organizations -- Chapter 2: From Sensemaking in to Sensemaking as Organizing The Evolution of Weicks Thought -- Chapter 3: Rethinking Sensemaking Critiques and Lines of Flight -- Chapter 4: Sensemaking and Time Toward a Radical Processual...

Chapter 1 Introduction -- Part I Ethical Crises and The Obstacle of Indecisiveness -- Chapter 2 The Interconnectedness of Wisdom, Morality, and Happiness: Overcoming the Limitations of Moral Consistency and Pity, When Preventing and Resolving a Value Crisis in the Organization -- Chapter 3 The...

Rational choice theories belong to the most important building blocks of 20th century economics. Their usefulness to model human behaviour has been extensively debated in modern social science and beyond. While some have argued that rational choice theories should be applied to a broad range of...

How can human flourishing arise from what the poet Mary Oliver called 'good work/ongoing'? In its attentiveness to the material, form and purpose of distinct, well-made things, craft epitomizes good work. In its disciplined, quiet giving over to the repetitions of tradition, craft is ongoing....

"This thought-provoking and ground-breaking book offers a way for us all to consider our experience of being at work, and of the nature of working life. Written in an engaging and accessible style, it presents the practical means in which to apply central features of existentialism to make sense...

Introduction: In search of synergy between humanism and AI in management Part I. Theoretical foundations and cross-paradigmatic perspectives 1. Aesthetic insight into humanistic management and AI: Research perspectives 2. A pragmatic consideration on management aesthetics: Humanistic approach in...

"This highly original book offers a new philosophy and vision of higher purpose for leaders facing the immense challenges of the 21st Century. By exploring Western quantum physics and traditional Chinese thought, leading management thinker Danah Zohar develops an emergent, new East/West vision...

Dieses Buch lädt die Leser zu einer intellektuellen Reise ein, auf der sich die großen Köpfe der Philosophie mit zeitgenössischen organisatorischen Herausforderungen verbinden. Basierend auf klassischen und modernen philosophischen Gedanken zeigt „Philosophie und Management: Große Köpfe...

1. Prologue: A False Conception of Politeia -- 2. Society as a Rational Choice -- 3. The returns on the social contract -- 4. The returns on the social contract -- 5. The economy and society -- 6. On the conception of Liberty -- 7. On the conception of Liberty -- 8. A Brief note on the Organic...

This paper focuses on exploring the functions of education and the concept of knowledge in Islam. The importance of human intelligence compared to artificial intelligence and the importance of language in education is also discussed. This paper further examined phenomena, true concepts, the...

This article argues that the current crisis of environmental degradation and global inequality is caused by the dominance of the philosophical principles of individualism and neo-liberalism in public and private economic decision-making since the 1970s. This crisis can be overcome by a...

The concept of African Ubuntu has been a subject of discussion among many authors and it has been in existence for many years. Ideals associated with Ubuntu are major source of inspiration as its value is of interest to global readers. This write up intends to bring a discussion on the...

Experimental philosophy, as practiced by political philosophers, has tended to use experimental methods to gain leverage on traditional normative and political questions. Typically, these methods are the same ones used in cognitive and social psychology, which is to say non-incentivized,...

I argue that meta-ignorance and meta-insensitivity are the key sources influencing the reoccurrence of the (un)conscious misrepresentation of marginalized groups in management and organization research; such misrepresentation, in effect, perpetuates epistemic neocolonialism. Meta-ignorance...