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Eudaimonic Management

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Flourishing; Functioning; Self-development

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Eudaimonic (or eudaemonic) management is an approach inspired by a philosophical tradition dating from Aristotle. Throughout times, eudaimonia – human flourishing – has received different interpretations, starting as an ethical conception of the good life and evolving toward a psychological theory of happiness understood as ongoing self-realization. Despite the diversity of characterizations, the concept of eudaimonia has maintained its main focus on the good or happy life defined by the realization of one’s capacities, virtues, potentialities, and so forth. It has also kept its dynamic aspect: eudaimonia is not a state, but a continuous process. One is truly happy if she engages in activities that feed her daimon(spirit). In that context, eudaimonic management consists in importing eudaimonic psychology within the firm in order to identify managerial responsibilities toward employees, particularly in terms of work...

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  1. Stockholm School of Economics in Riga, Riga, Latvia

    Xavier Landes

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  1. London Metropolitan University, Guildhall Faculty of Business and Law London Metropolitan University, London, UK

    Samuel Idowu

  2. Cologne Business School, Ingolstadt, Germany

    René Schmidpeter

  3. College of Business, Loyola University New Orleans, New Orleans, LA, USA

    Nicholas Capaldi

  4. International Training Centre of the IL, International Labor Organization, Turin, Italy

    Liangrong Zu

  5. Department of Economics, Society and Politics, University of Urbino Carlo Bo, Urbino, Italy

    Mara Del Baldo

  6. Instituto Politécnico da Guarda, Guarda, Portugal

    Rute Abreu

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  1. Department of Economic Sciencies, University of Salento, Lecce, Italy

    Andrea Venturelli

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Landes, X. (2020). Eudaimonic Management. In: Idowu, S., Schmidpeter, R., Capaldi, N., Zu, L., Del Baldo, M., Abreu, R. (eds) Encyclopedia of Sustainable Management. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-02006-4_636-1

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