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Jun 1, 2020 · PDF | In this article, we philosophically reflect on the nature of business management. We move beyond the political paradigm of the conceptualization... | Find, read and cite all the...
- Vincent Blok
- Management as Participation
- Management as Resistance and Responsive Action
- Management as Constituting Meaning
As we have seen in the previous section, management is often conceptualized as external to the primary process of the business operations. The business manager manages and controls the primary process via instrumental control systems. We can frame this externality and instrumentality of management practices in terms of a loss of participation, name...
How can we further characterize the act of management? What initiates this act? The notion of failure may provide an appropriate starting point to reflect on the question what initiates the act of management. It is often argued that business management starts with a problem, for instance a problem that is experienced by consumers – e.g. connectivit...
While currently, business management is often understood in terms of the establishment of a functioning order of the business in order to make profit, we questioned this orientation towards profit already; the examples of social enterprises and sustainable businesses showed already that profit may be an important condition for firm survival, but do...
- Vincent Blok
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- 2020
Management is everywhere, ranging from people’s self-management to social network management, and from household management to planetary management in the context of global warming. This raises the question what is actually meant with the concept of business management.
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- Vincent Blok
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namely ‘Scientific Management’ or ‘Taylorism’, as it became known. We also examine how, in turn, it shaped the next development in the narrative - ‘Human Relations’ - and its successors ‘Organizational Behaviour’ and ‘Human Resource Management’. ===== Key words: culture, Enlightenment, general management, management theory ...
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1. Defining Management and Organization. Learning Objectives. Upon completion of this chapter, students should be able to do the following: Define management, organization, and leadership. List and discuss criminal justice organizations and the various specialties in criminal justice. Describe nonprofit and for-profit agencies. In.
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Jan 1, 2019 · This chapter aims at developing a more precise definition of management that clearly and fully captures the meaning and the content of the term.
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Management can be defined as all the activities and tasks undertaken by one or more persons for the pur-pose of planning and controlling the activities of oth-ers in order to achieve an objective or complete an activity that could not be achieved by the others acting independently [1].
