1st Edition
Repoliticizing Management A Theory of Corporate Legitimacy
By Conor Cradden
Copyright 2005
192 Pages
by
Routledge
192 Pages
by
Routledge
192 Pages
by
Routledge
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Drawing on the work of Jürgen Habermas's social theory for the critical study of management, organization and employment, this book proposes a new definition of legitimate corporate action; based on Habermas's principles of communicative rationality and discourse ethics. Systematic in its application of the full range of Habermas's arguments to management and economics, it uses insights from these... Read more
Contents: Preface; Introduction: the corporate theory of society and the search for legitimacy; Challenging the corporate theory of society; Habermas's Social Theory; The structure of communication in systemic contexts of action; Legitimate action in systemic contexts; The concept of worldviews; Systemic worldviews in practice: corporate legitimacy and the employment relationship; Repoliticizing management; Bibliography; Index.
Biography
Conor Cradden
