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Author:   Pasquale Gagliardi ,  Barbara Czarniawska
Publisher:   Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd
Imprint:   Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd
Edition:   illustrated edition
Dimensions:   Width: 15.60cm , Height: 2.20cm , Length: 23.40cm
Weight:   0.538kg
ISBN:  

9781845424756

ISBN 10:   1845424751
Pages:   288
Publication Date:   25 May 2006
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Undergraduate ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Contents: Foreword INTRODUCTIONS 1. A Role for Humanities in the Formation of Managers Pasquale Gagliardi 2. Forming Managers? A Counterpoint Barbara Czarniawska 3. A Guide for Readers Pasquale Gagliardi and Barbara Czarniawska PART I: MANAGERIAL PROFESSION AT THE START OF THE NEW CENTURY 4. Management Education and the Humanities: The Challenge of Post-Bureaucracy John Hendry 5. Women and Humanities: Allies or Enemies? Helene Ahl 6. American Psycho/European Schizo: Stories of Managerial Elites in a Hundred Images Daniel Hjorth and Chris Steyaert PART II: MANAGEMENT EDUCATION: IS A HUMANIST REFRAMING POSSIBLE? 7. The Business School in Ruins? Ken Starkey and Sue Tempest 8. Problematizing and Enlarging the Notion of Humanistic Education Daniel Arenas 9. Cultivation or Civilization? Popular Management Concepts and their Role in Reshaping the Way Management is Understood Niels Dechow PART III: BRINGING HUMANITIES INTO THE HEART OF MANAGEMENT 10. Management as Product of the European Knowledge Tradition: A Modern Form of Ancient Paideia? Keith Hoskin 11. A Journey Beyond Institutional Knowledge: Dante’s Reading of the Odyssey Silvia Gherardi 12. Strong Plots: Popular Culture in Management Practice and Theory Barbara Czarniawska and Carl Rhodes PART IV: RETHINKING HUMANISM 13. A Philosopher in Public Management Lars Vissing 14. The Great Narrative of the Sciences and the History of Humanities Michel Serres 15. Post-Humanist Challenges to the Human and Social Sciences Karin Knorr Cetina Afterword Anthony G. Hopwood Index

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'Academics and managers who strive for a humanistic management education usually care for people, but they are challenged by sophisticated intellectual subjects and practical problems. The authors' experience, competence and commitment enables them to present an extensive coverage of important views and an in-depth study of these issues.' -- Eduard Bonet, ESADE, Spain 'This volume is a timely initiative. It resonates with important questions on globalization and its consequences, on the unrelenting quest for efficiency and productivity, on recent corporate scandals and on the responsibilities of managers and management education. This book is a manifesto for an intellectual revolution. In a complex and open world, managers often bump into the limits of the decontextualized tools associated with mainstream management knowledge and practice. Managers have to navigate in a world that is not only economic but also political, cultural, shaped by history and ethical traditions and preoccupations - not only as a mark of social capital but really as a way to enhance their managerial skills and efficiency. The role of management education should be to prepare them for that odyssey and this volume tells us that humanities could be a powerful tool in that sense. This project is served by a highly legitimate international panel of contributors who collectively point towards an alternative for management thinking and management education.' -- Marie-Laure Djelic, ESSEC Business School, France

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Edited by Pasquale Gagliardi, Professor of Sociology of Organization, Catholic University of Milan, Italy and the late Barbara Czarniawska, formerly Professor Emerita of Management Studies, GRI, School of Business, Economics and Law, University of Gothenburg, Sweden

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