Overview
- Is a comprehensive and convenient reference work on practical wisdom
- Explores contemporary responses to the revival of practical wisdom
- Discusses a wide range of issues both at the level of theory and practice
- Caters to the interests of a broad audience - students, researchers, librarians, and academics in the field of business and management ethics
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Table of contents (23 entries)
Keywords
- Practical Wisdom in Business and Management
- Aristotelian virtue ethics
- Practical Wisdom in Social Enterprises
- Historical and philosophical perspectives on Practical Wisdom
- Practical Wisdom in Confucianism, Islam, Hinduism and Buddhism
- Business and management studies
- Practical wisdom within business and management contexts
- Explicit theories of wisdom
- Strategy and Entrepreneurship
- Practical Wisdom in Social Enterprises
- Practical Wisdom in Organization Theory
- Indigenous African perspectives on Practical Wisdom
- Practical wisdom and management’s political function
- Virtues, norms, and principles
- Practical Wisdom and the philosophy of action
- Society building and the common good
- Virtue of Practical Wisdom
- Wisdom of the manager
- Common good of the firm
- Stoic Wisdom in the workplace
About this book
This handbook provides an up-to-date overview of the topic of practical wisdom or phronesis. It enables the reader to locate common ground in conceptions of practical wisdom and to understand the way that different schools of thought have developed and then applied their particular perspectives on the topic.
Part 1 deals with the development of key traditions of practical wisdom, particularly in Aristotelian virtue ethics, but also extending to other traditions such as Confucianism and Islam. It includes historical perspectives in philosophy, and offers views on the core concept of phronesis or practical wisdom and associated themes such as the idea of ‘good’ in good judgment, decision making in particular contexts, uncertainty, the acquisition of wisdom, and deliberation. It also includes an exploration of more contentious themes, such as reciprocity in the virtues, techne vs praxis, and standards.
Part 2 deals with the application of the concept in business and management studies. It provides an overview of key areas of empirical research, and looks at the positioning of practical wisdom within a range of business and management contexts. These include management development and education, leadership, knowledge management, decision making, entrepreneurship, and artificial intelligence.
Part 3 provides an opportunity to explore interdisciplinary links, contemporary issues and future directions of study. This includes perspectives from social science, psychology, education and other disciplines. It provides some scope for new conceptual development, for instance by encouraging intersectional discussion with other traditions, and includes critical voices.
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Caleb Bernacchio is a doctoral candidate in business ethics at IESE Business School in Barcelona. He holds a B Phil from the Pontifical University of St Thomas in Rome, an MBA from Louisiana State University, and an MRM from IESE Business School. Caleb's primary research interests concern the intersection of neo-Aristotelian practical philosophy, especially virtue ethics and action theory, with issues in organization theory, strategy, and entrepreneurship research. He has published in Business Ethics Quarterly, Business Ethics: A European Review, and Philosophy of Management.
César González-Cantón is Assistant Professor at CUNEF – Universidad Complutense de Madrid. He holds an MBA from IESE Business School (2007) and aPhD in Philosophy (2004) from Universidad Complutense de Madrid. His research interests extend mainly in three directions: 1) The intersection of capability approach, human rights, and business ethics; 2) Philosophy of economics and management; 3) Practical wisdom. He has taught at several universities, including Universidad de Navarra and Universitat Pompeu Fabra in Spain. He has been Research Fellow of the Business Ethics Chair at IESE and had visiting appointments in University of Notre Dame (USA) and Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster (Germany). Two of his co-authored books were published with Palgrave McMillan in 2014: Human Foundations of Management and Phronesis and Quiddity in Management. He has also published in the Journal of Business Ethics and philosophical outlets.
Angus Robson is a lecturer at Newcastle Business School, Northumbria University. Prior to this, he led social enterprises and regeneration projects in the UK, raising skills and employability in areas suffering economic deprivation. He holds a PhD (2014) in Business Ethics from Northumbria. His main research interest is in Aristotelian virtue ethics, with a particular emphasis on the work of Alasdair MacIntyre and Hans Georg Gadamer. He has additional research interests in ethics of care and machine ethics. The empirical context of his work is Scottish banking after the global financial crisis. In addition to a number of conference papers on these topics, he has published in Business Ethics: A European Review.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Handbook of Practical Wisdom in Business and Management
Editors: Barry Schwartz, Caleb Bernacchio, César González-Cantón, Angus Robson
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-00140-7
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Springer Reference Religion and Philosophy, Reference Module Humanities and Social Sciences, Reference Module Humanities
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-00140-7Due: 14 November 2022
Topics: Business Ethics, Business Ethics, Positive Psychology, Moral Philosophy, Business Strategy/Leadership