Ontological Fundamentals for Ethical Management

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xvii

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2. Introduction

   • Dominik Heil

   Pages 1-45

3. Heidegger’s Typology of Entities and the Very Nature of the Corporation

   • Dominik Heil

   Pages 47-92

4. The Corporation as Technological Work and the Nature of Management

   • Dominik Heil

   Pages 93-119

5. Coming to Terms with the Corporation

   • Dominik Heil

   Pages 121-136

6. Towards the Enterprise as an Original Work

   • Dominik Heil

   Pages 137-176

7. Conclusion

   • Dominik Heil

   Pages 177-183

8. Back Matter

   Pages 185-195

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The book develops a philosophical foundation to the field of management education 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 in general and management ethics in particular. Most other academic fields are in some way defined and guided by a philosophical discourse. This philosophical discourse is largely missing in the field of management thought and education. Without this foundation it can never be clear what actually belongs into a certain academic discipline and what does not. It also therefore lacks a sound and well articulated ontological foundation critical for developing approaches to ethical management. This book seeks to fill this gap and consequently represents an interdisciplinary effort between the academic field of management/business administration and philosophy, which is vital for business ethics. Intended as required reading for an elective on philosophy of management that is offered annually at the Wits Business School / University of the Witwatersrand / Johannesburg. The structure of the course will be largely based on the structure of the book.

• Business Ethics
• CSR
• Cartesian Tradition
• Corporate Management
• Corporate Social Responisibility
• Corporate Stategy
• Corporate Values and Em-bankment
• Corporate World
• Corporation
• Corporation and Science
• Corporation as Cultural
• Corporation as Political
• Corporation as Transformational
• Corporation as a Human Being
• Corporation as an Organism
• Definitions of Management
• Entrepeneur
• Entrepeneurship
• Entrepreneurial Management
• Ethical Management
• Ethics
• Ethos for the Enterprise
• Etymology
• Hermeneutic Phenomenology
• Hermeneutics
• Human Alienation and Exploitation
• Management and Power
• Martin Heidegger
• Nature of Management
• Nature of the Corporation
• Ontological
• Ontological Questioning
• World -Acquiring

• Parktown, Johannesburg, South Africa

  Dominik Heil

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