The authors provide an overview of major Western philosophies and their significance for managers, management academics, students, and consultants.

• Cover
• The Philosophical Foundations of Management Thought
• The Philosophical Foundations of Management Thought: Revised and Expanded Edition
• Copyright
• Dedication
• Contents
• Introduction
• Chapter 1
• Ancient Heroism
  • Homer’s World
  • Homer’s Heroes
  • Homer’s Man
  • Ancient Heroism Today
  • Peter Drucker
  • Management by Objectives and Self-Control
  • After Drucker
  • Managing, Heroically
  • Notes
  • Further reading
• Chapter 2
• Greek Rationalism
  • A World in Transition
  • Plato’s Forms
  • The Rule of the Wise
  • Leading from the Psyche
  • Plato’s Legacy
  • Plato, C.E.O.
  • Notes
  • Further reading
• Chapter 3
• Italian Renaissance
  • Rome and Christianity
  • The Italian Renaissance
  • Niccolò Machiavelli
  • Machiavelli’s Virtù
  • Machiavelli’s Shadow
  • Machiavelli in the Executive Suite
  • Notes
  • Further reading
• Chapter 4
• French Rationalism
  • The Nominalist Challenge
  • The Scientific Revolution
  • René Descartes
  • Cartesian Doubt
  • The Cogito
  • Descartes’S Theology
  • Cartesian Circles
  • Managing Rationally
  • Notes
  • Further reading
• Chapter 5
• British Empiricism
  • British Empiricism
  • David Hume: The Study of Human Nature
  • Hume’s Fork
  • Causation and Induction
  • Humean Nature
  • Hume’s Critics
  • Managing without Nonsense
  • After Hume
  • Notes
  • Further reading
• Chapter 6
• Positivism
  • The Positive Philosophy of Auguste Comte
  • The Science of Society
  • Positivism after Comte
  • Managing Positively
  • Positivism and Management Academia
  • Beyond Positivism
  • Notes
  • Further reading
• Chapter 7
• Critical Rationalism
  • The Problem of Demarcation
  • The Growth of Scientific Knowledge
  • The Endless Pursuit of Truth
  • The Critique of Historicism and the Case for the Open Society
  • Popperian Science and Management Academia
  • The Logic of Strategic Management Discoveries
  • Critical Irrationalism
  • Notes
  • Further readings
• Chapter 8
• German Romanticism
  • The French Enlightenment
  • The German Enlightenment
  • The First Attack on the Enlightenment
  • Immanuel Kant: Reluctant Romantic
  • Johann Fichte: The Apotheosis of the Will
  • Arthur Schopenhauer: The Dark Side of the Will
  • The Romantic Legacy
  • Managing Romantically
  • Notes
  • Further Reading
• Chapter 9
• Heroic Individualism
  • The Wanderer and His Shadow
  • History of European Nihilism
  • The Anti-Christ
  • Will to Power
  • Managing Aristocratically
  • Human, All Too Human
  • Notes
  • Further reading
• Chapter 10
• Psychoanalysis and Psychiatry
  • Psychoanalysis’S Main Principles
  • Psychoanalysis at Work
  • Freud under Analysis
  • Psychiatry
  • The Myth of Mental Illness
  • Managing Mind
  • Notes
  • Further reading
• Chapter 11
• French Existentialism
  • The Fathers of Existentialism
  • Consciousness as Nothingness
  • Condemned to Be Free
  • Freedom and Responsibility at Work
  • The Existentialism of Peter Drucker
  • No Exit
  • Further Criticisms
  • Notes
  • Further reading
• Chapter 12
• American Pragmatism
  • Charles Sanders Peirce’s Pragmatic Maxim
  • Williams James’s Convenient Pragmatism
  • John Dewey’s Naturalistic Pragmatism
  • George Herbert Mead’s Pragmatic Social Psychology
  • Management: Practice, Theory, Ideology
  • Making Management Work
  • Neopragmatism
  • Notes
  • Further Reading
• Chapter 13
• Postmodernism
  • The End of Modernity
  • French Theory
  • The Linguistic Turn
  • The Postmodern Condition
  • Managing without Certainties
  • Critical Management Studies
  • The Postmodern Disorder
  • Post-Postmodernism
  • Notes
  • Further reading
• Epilogue
  • Promising Beginnings
  • Unresolved Tensions
  • The Way Forward
  • Philosophy as Prophylaxis
  • Philosophy as Citizenship
  • Philosophy as Management Education
  • Notes
  • Further reading
• Bibliography
• Name Index
• About the Authors