ISBN:
9789400718753
Language:
English
Pages:
1 online resource (207 pages)
Series Statement:
Issues in Business Ethics Ser. v.35
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als
DDC:
174.4
Keywords:
Heidegger, Martin, -- 1889-1976
;
Business ethics
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Management -- Moral and ethical aspects
;
Corporate culture
;
Electronic books
Abstract:
Taking Heidegger as its guiding philosophy, this book develops a much-needed philosophical foundation to the field of management as an academic discipline. It tackles two fundamental questions: 'What is a corporation?' and 'what is corporate management?'.
Abstract:
Intro -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- Note on Translations and System of Abbreviations -- German: -- English: -- Indices and Dictionaries -- Contents -- 1 Introduction -- Towards the Foundations of Managerial Ethics -- Heidegger and Ethics -- The Unasked Question About the Very Nature of the Corporation and Corporate Management -- The Case for Asking the Ontological Question Regarding the Corporation -- Definitions -- Metaphorical Statements About the Corporation -- The Role of Ontological Questioning in Theory and Practice -- Scientific Questioning as the Dominant Form of Questioning Regarding the Corporation -- The Insufficiency of Scientific Questioning Regarding the Corporation -- Ontological Questioning -- Concerns About Ontological Statements About the Corporation -- Heidegger as a Guiding Thinker in Asking the Ontological Question About the Corporation -- Heidegger and the Corporate World -- Heidegger's Thinking and the Cartesian Tradition -- The Term 'Hermeneutic Phenomenology' -- Hermeneutics as a Method -- The Structure of the Argument -- 2 Heideggers Typology of Entities and the Very Nature of the Corporation -- Being-in-the-World -- Heidegger's Term 'World' -- Heidegger's Term 'Truth' -- Heidegger's Terms 'Being' and 'the Truth of Being' -- The Corporation as Physical Object -- Physical Objects as 'Worldless' -- The Physical Object as a Metaphor for the Corporation -- The Corporation as an Organism -- Non-Human Organisms as 'World-poor' -- The Organism as a Metaphor for the Corporation -- The Corporation as a Human Being -- Human Beings as 'World-Acquiring' -- The Human Being as a Metaphor for the Corporation -- The Corporation as a Work -- The Work as 'Setting up a World' -- The Work as the Ontological Ascertainment of the Corporation -- Considering the Corporation as a Work -- The Corporation as Cultural.
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