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A Humanistic Narrative for Responsible Management Learning - An Ontological Perspective
Pirson, Michael - 2020
Why has responsible management been so difficult and why is the chorus of stakeholders demanding such responsibility … getting louder? I argue that management learning has been framed within the narrative of economism. As such, I claim that … suggesting that humans only survived by being responsible. This understanding has consequences for responsible management …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012838369
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A Humanistic Ontology for Responsible Management
Pirson, Michael - 2018
Why has responsible management been so difficult and why is the chorus of stakeholders demanding responsibility getting … louder? We argue that management has been framed within the structural confines of corporate governance. Corporate governance … based on ontological assumptions that do not provide for responsible actions on behalf of management (Jensen 2001; Jensen …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012906967
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A Humanistic Ontology for Responsible Management Learning
Pirson, Michael - 2018
Why has responsible management been so difficult and why is the chorus of stakeholders demanding such responsibility … getting louder? We argue that management learning has been framed within the structural confines of corporate governance … in turn is based on ontological assumptions that do not provide for responsible actions on behalf of management (Jensen …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012921604
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Dignity and Well-Being as Cornerstones of Humanistic Management
Pirson, Michael - 2017
Humanistic management rests on two cornerstones drawn from the fundamentally different perspective on human nature … described before. The notion of dignity and the dignity threshold form one pillar of humanistic management. The notion of well …-being forms the second pillar, and is the ultimate organizing goal of humanistic management. This chapter explores both concepts …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014122893
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Formation of Stakeholder Trust in Business and the Role of Personal Values
Pirson, Michael - 2014
Declining levels of stakeholder trust in business are of concern to business executives and scholars for legitimacy and performance related effects. Research in the area of stakeholder trust in business is nascent therefore the trust formation process has been rarely examined at the stakeholder...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013064003
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Public Trust in Business and Its Determinants
Pirson, Michael; Martin, Kirsten; Parmar, Bidhan L. - 2014
Public trust in business, or the degree to which external stakeholders such as the public trust business in general is largely understudied. As the relevance of public trust in business becomes ever more obvious to practitioners and scholars, the levels of trust in business have reached...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014172928
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Humanistic Management : The Road Towards Ethical and Sustainable Business
Hofielen, Gerd; von Kimakowitz, Ernst; Pirson, Michael - 2013
This is an introduction to humanistic management from a practitioner perspective …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014191876
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Ontological Foundations of Stakeholder Dignity and Well-Being : Concepts and Measurement
Pirson, Michael - 2018
In this paper, I am examining the foundational assumptions of human nature (ontology) that guide current corporate governance and strategy. I question these assumptions based on the latest findings from the sciences and propose an alternative, humanistic ontology. This ontology allows us to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014109604
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Ontological Foundations of Stakeholder Dignity and Well-Being – Concepts and Measurement
Pirson, Michael - 2018
In this paper, I am examining the foundational assumptions of human nature (ontology) that guide current corporate governance and strategy. I question these assumptions based on the latest findings from the sciences and propose an alternative, humanistic ontology. This ontology allows us to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014114612