Philosophy and Management

Issue title: Management and Philosophy

Article type: Research Article

Authors: van Peursen, C.A.

Affiliations: A. Gogelweg 39, 2517 JE The Hague, Netherlands

Abstract: Philosophizing is not what many politicians and managers think it is: to express some personal ideas on the state of matters. It is, on the contrary: starting to see unquestioned matters in a new, problematic way. Management needs philosophy in its search for hidden presuppositions. But philosophy needs the realistic input of management to see to it that its own rationality becomes less closed and more concrete. Examples of such a fruitful interaction are discussed: the role of inventiveness; the integration of cultural challenges within an extended policy; the discovery of the new multiform cultural context of today.

Keywords: Cultural context, ambient management, inventiveness, philosophy, extended rationality

DOI: 10.3233/HSM-1989-8404

Journal: Human Systems Management, vol. 8, no. 4, pp. 267-272, 1989