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This paper provides a comprehensive review of the philosophical foundations of business management. The need for such a review is established. Emphasis is placed upon the role of management ethos in such a philosophy. Philosophical concepts (such as the concept of an intention) which are widely applied in management, but not explored in the management literature, are examined. While the emphasis is on philosophical concepts, the material presented is applicable in the practice of management.
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Mark Pastin is Director of the Center for Private and Public Sector Ethics and Professor of Management at the Arizona State University. He received the National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship, and was a Research Fellow of the Center for Metropolitan Research of John Hopkins University. His most important publications are ‘Strategic Planning for Science’ The Research System in the 1980s, ed. by John Logsdon (Franklin Institute Press, 1982), ‘Ethics and the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act’, Business Horizons (December 1980), ‘The Multi-Perspectival Theory of Knowledge’, Midwest Studies in Philosophy: Volume V (University of Minnesota Press, 1980), and ‘Meaning and Perception’, Journal of Philosophy (October 1976).
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Pastin, M. Management-think. J Bus Ethics 4, 297–307 (1985). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00381772
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00381772