Phronesis and Quiddity in Management [electronic resource] : A School of Knowledge Approach /
Kase, Kimio.author.
González-Cantón, César.author.
Nonaka, Ikujiro.author.
Phronesis and Quiddity in Management addresses the issue of the excellence in judgment-making, its concept and characterisation. This book investigates first into what constitutes excellent managerial skills centred on leadership revolving around judgement-making (rather than decision-making) and second into whether they can be taught.
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""Cover""; ""Contents""; ""List of Figures and Tables""; ""Foreword""; ""Prologue""; ""Acknowledgements""; ""1 Introduction""; ""1 Research question""; ""2 The Rationalist Approach to Judgement-Making: Description and Critique""; ""1 Historical and ideological origins of RCT and homo oeconomicus""; ""2 Homo oeconomicus: Rationality, emotions and sociability""; ""3 Criticism of the scientist reason and the RCT""; ""3 The Metaphysics of Judgement-Making: Contingency""; ""1a Contingency""; ""1b Further discussion on empirical contingency""; ""2 Synchronicity""
""3 Probabilistic causality, Simpson?s Paradox and causality""""4 Propositions""; ""5 Judgement-making vis-à-vis contingency: The example of blue light-emitting diode (LED) development""; ""6 Conclusions""; ""4 Consciousness and Quiddity""; ""1 Two kinds of quiddity""; ""2 The comparison of mahiyah and huwiyah""; ""3 The conciliation of mahiyah and huwiyah""; ""Conclusions""; ""5 Phronesis and Quiddity""; ""1 The concept of phronesis and its features""; ""2 The role of emotions in phronesis""; ""3 Phronesis and sociability""; ""4 Phronesis as ethical reasoning""
""5 The ?wise leader?: Wisdom or the perfected practical reason""""Annex 1 Idemitsu Sazo""; ""Annex 2 Kazuo Inamori""; ""Annex 3 Knowledge generation in social business: La Fageda""; ""Conclusions""; ""6 Conclusions and Discussions""; ""1 Discussions""; ""2 Implications in practice""; ""Annex 1: Idemitsu Sazo (1885?1981)""; ""His life as the founder and president of Idemitsu Kosan""; ""Appendix 1: Idemitsu Sazo?s management thinking""; ""Appendix 2: Chronology of Idemitsu""; ""Appendix 3: Idemitsu Kosan?s financial figures in 2012""; ""Appendix 4: The current-day world petroleum industry""
""Annex 2: Kazuo Inamori""""Management history and organisational system""; ""Amoeba management and hourly profit system""; ""Management philosophy""; ""Appendix 1: Kazuo Inamori?s biography""; ""Appendix 2: Twelve articles of Inamori?s management philosophy""; ""Appendix 3: Kyocera?s financial statements""; ""Appendix 4a: KDDI?s financial figures""; ""Appendix 4b: JAL?s financial figures""; ""Annex 3: La Fageda: Knowledge Generation in Social Business""; ""Notes""; ""Index""
Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.
Phronesis and Quiddity in Management addresses the issue of the excellence in judgment-making, its concept and characterisation. This book investigates first into what constitutes excellent managerial skills centred on leadership revolving around judgement-making (rather than decision-making) and second into whether they can be taught.
Management.
International business enterpris.
International economics.
Philosophy (General).
Leadership.
Innovation/Technology Management.
International Business.
Management.
International Economics.
Philosophy, general.
Business Strategy/Leadership.