What Is (Business) Management? Laying the Ground for a Philosophy of Management

Philosophy of Management - 2020
Vincent Blok1
1Associate Professor, Philosophy Group, Wageningen University, Hollandseweg 1, 6707 KN, Wageningen, The Netherlands

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AbstractIn this article, we philosophically reflect on the nature of business management. We move beyond the political paradigm of the conceptualization of management in order to lay the ground for a philosophy of business management. First, we open-up the self-evident conceptualization of business management in contemporary management practices by comparing ancient and contemporary definitions of management. Second, we develop a framework with six dimensions of the nature of business management that can guide future philosophical and empirical work on the nature of business management: management control, people management, asset management and entrepreneurial action, management as participation, management as responsive action and management as constituting meaning.

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