Pluralism in management : organizational theory, management education, and Ernst Cassirer / Eirik J. Irgens.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Irgens, Eirik J., 1955- author.

Series:

Management, organizations and society (London, England) ; v. 12.

Routledge studies in management, organizations, and society ; 12

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Cassirer, Ernst, 1874-1945.

Cassirer, Ernst.

Organizational sociology--Philosophy.

Organizational sociology.

Pluralism.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (164 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

New York : Routledge, 2011.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Analytic philosophy has come to dominate organizational theory and management education, despite criticism from several notable scholars. The European continental philosophical tradition, on the other hand, is seen by some as a counterpoint to US- and UK-dominated functionalistic organizational theories. These two very different schools of thought are now largely practiced in isolation from one another. Late nineteenth and early twentieth century philosopher Ernst Cassirer served as a mediating force and facilitated a fruitful dialogue between the two schools until he was forced to leave Ge

Contents:

An autobiographical account of a formative experience

Cassirer's philosophy of symbolic forms

Art and science as supplementing forms

The parting of the ways and the divide in organizational theory

Cassirer in the light of neuroscience

Bringing Cassirer into organizations

The institution as a symbolic form.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [143]-151) and index.

ISBN:

9786613151063

9781136726675

1136726675

9781283151061

1283151065

9781136726682

1136726683

9780203817087

0203817087

OCLC:

730151692