This textbook presents the fundamental economic dimensions of insurance companies and links them to managerial issues. Combining academic rigour and a strongly practice-oriented approach, it addresses both the competitive environment and the management of the insurance business. Further, it...

1 Debating Homo academicus: A maieutic quest for self-reflexivity -- PART ONE: Homo moralis -- 2 When management and organization came to the village of Jante -- 3 Aren’t we all human? - On the illusion of the extraordinary academic -- PART TWO: Homo reflectivus -- 4 Existential explorations...

Preamble -- Dedication -- Prologue -- Preface -- Acknowledgement -- 1.The theory of knowing and organizational analytics -- 2. The information-knowledge -- 3. The theory of epistemic anomalies in the principles of diversity and unity of knowing and science: organizational characteristic-signal...