Preface	5
	Contents	7
	Part A Management and Philosophy	9
	Chapter 1 The Philosophy of Management: Philosophy as a Challenge to Business, Management as a Challenge to Philosophy	10
	I. Introduction	11
	II. Management Ethics and Corporate Governance: The Total Good of the Firm as the Fiduciary Duty of the Manager	15
	III. Management and Cultural Philosophy 1: Culture Value as the Task of the Organization to Increase the Internal Cooperation	18
	1. What is Cultural Capital?	18
	2. The Increased Cooperation of the Firm as Cultural Capital and Culture Value	19
	IV. Management and Cultural Philosophy 2: The Circle of Experiencing and Understanding in Management and in Art	20
	1. The Cultural Surplus Value of the Goods and Services as the Firm’s Task	20
	2. The Circle of Cultural Understanding and Experiencing in the Production of Art and of Industry	21
	V. The Challenge of Management to Philosophy	23
	Chapter 2 Philosophy of Management: Concepts of Management from the Perspectives of Systems Theory, Phenomenological Hermeneutics, Corporate Religion, and Existentialism	26
	I. The Emergence of Business Ethics: Towards the Political Firm	26
	II. Values-driven Management and Organizational Systems	31
	III. Leadership, Judgment, and Values	37
	IV. Corporate Religion, Existentialism, and Kierkegaard	44
	V. Conclusion	51
	Part B Organization Theory, Organizational Practice, and Philosophy	52
	Chapter 3 Critical Realism, Organization Theory, Methodology, and the Emerging Scienceof Reconfiguration¹	53
	I. Introduction	53
	II. Critical Realist Metaphysics	55
	III. The Conception of Theory	60
	IV. Methodology	64
	V. Research Designs and Logics of Discovery	70
	1. Single Case Study Research	70
	2. Research Involving Comparative Case Studies	72
	3. Generative Institutional Investigations	75
	4. From General Contexts to Mechanisms	76
	VI. Final Remarks	81
	Chapter 4 Epistemological Issues and Aspects of Organizational Practice	84
	I. Introduction	85
	II. Epistemology	85
	1. Relational Epistemology	86
	a) Knowledge Relation	87
	2. Epistemic Variety	88
	a) Questions	88
	b) Strategies of Explanation	89
	c) Dimensions of Knowledge	90
	d) Data, Information and Knowledge (dak)	92
	3. Quality of Knowledge	92
	a) Criteria of Truth	93
	b) Profoundness	94
	c) Sources of Knowledge	94
	4. Justification	95
	a) S knows P	96
	b) Virtue Epistemology	97
	5. Summarizing Conclusion	98
	III. Epistemological Issues and Organizational Practice	98
	1. Action Regarding Knowledge	99
	2. Knowledge and Organizational Practice	100
	IV. Epistemology and Good Governance	101
	1. Transparency	102
	2. Integrity	104
	3. Epistemology: Transparency, Auditing and Integrity	105
	a) Transparency, Auditing and Integrity	105
	Transparency	106
	Auditing	107
	Integrity	108
	b) The Relevance of Epistemology	109
	V. Concluding Remarks	111
	References	111
	Part C Philosophy, Economics, and Business Ethics	113
	Chapter 5 Values and the Limits of Economic Rationality: Critical Remarks on ‘Economic Imperialism’	114
	I. Economic Imperialism?	114
	II. The Being Given of Preferences and the Validity-reflexive Formation Process	119
	1. The Being Given of Preferences	119
	2. The Validity-reflexive Formation Process	121
	3. Application of the RCM to Itself	128
	III. Quantifying Preferences and Their Quality	129
	References	136
	Chapter 6 Business Engagement, Mental Models, and Philosophy in the Globalized World	140
	I. Introduction: Order in the Globalized World?	140
	II. Mental Models Matter: Some Empirical Figures	141
	III. Philosophers on Normative Mental Models	143
	1. Strong Normativity I: Virtue Ethics	143
	2. Strong Normativity II: Kantian Tradition	145
	3. Weak Normativity: Corporate Citizenship	148
	IV. Contractarian Normativity out of Economics	150
	1. Theory in Order Ethics	151
	a) Actions and Rules	152
	b) Implementation and Advantages	153
	2. Order Ethics and Incomplete Contracts	155
	V. Responsibilities of Corporations in the Globalized World	157
	VI. Conclusion	160
	References	161
	Part D Philosophy and Brand Management	165
	Chapter 7 The Ethical Consequences of Brand Management: A System-theoretical Approach	166
	I. The By-product of Branding	166
	II. How to Differentiate Between the Product and the Brand	168
	III. Preliminary Work on the Sociology of a Brand Community	171
	IV. Brands Link not Only Customers but Also Companies	175
	V. Not Cab but Brooms	177
	References	178
	List of Authors	182
	Index of Names	183