1st Edition
Face to Face with Practice Existential Forms of Research for Management Inquiry
Foreword
Introduction
1. Towards Phronesis: The Hermeneutic Circle as a lived experience of research
2. Stuck between management theory and a hard place: the lived experience of managing in the space between senior management and the real world
3. Moments of resolve: Existential challenges of everyday working life
4. Escaping the Iron Triangle: Existential Hermeneutics and the Practice of Project Management
5. Finding My Researcher Voice: From Disorientation to Embodied Practice
6. Being-in-Practice: Making the Leap from the Instrumental Technocratic to an Existential Hermeneutic Practice in Family Business Succession Consulting
7. Midrash Methodology
Biography
Dr Claire Jankelson is a tertiary educator with an interest in an enlivened engagement in learning and researching towards leadership in learning. Has an established practice as an independent Mentor and Supervisor to PhD’s. Further to a consulting practice on thoughtful leadership, she is Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Spirituality, Leadership and Management (JSLaM), a professional scholarly Journal that probes meaning and humanness within management practice.
Dr Steven Segal is a Senior lecturer in Management at the Macquarie Graduate School of Management. Through his range of teaching, research and publications he creates the space for students, researchers and practicing managers to develop their own theories of practice as a basis for developing practical wisdom and making a contribution to knowledge. Creating unexpected futures through research and teaching underpins his educational process.
"I have certainly found that reading the book has affected the way that I think about managerial research....I have found this book very thought provoking...I thoroughly recommend this book."
Karen Trem, Leeds Becket University, Management Learning
