Ontological Fundamentals for Ethical Management Heidegger and the Corporate World /

• Main Author: Heil, Dominik (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands, 2011.
• Series: Issues in Business Ethics, 35
• Subjects: Philosophy.; Business.; Management science.; Organization.; Planning.; Ethics.; Ontology.; School management and organization.; School administration.; Business and Management, general.; Administration, Organization and Leadership.

The book develops a philosophical foundation to the field of management as an academic discipline using the work of Martin Heidegger as a guiding philosophy. It asks the questions ‘what is a corporation?’ and ‘what is corporate management?’ These two questions are foundational for management thought...

Table of Contents:

• Acknowledgements
• Table of Contents
• Note on Translations and System of Abbreviations
• Introduction
• Heidegger’s Typology of Entities and the Very Nature of the Corporation
• The Corporation as Technological Work and the Nature of Management
• Coming to Terms With the Corporation
• Towards the Enterprise as an Original Work
• Conclusion.-References
• Index.