Barbara Fryzel - Böcker

This book explores how ethics and the moral context of business have evolvedhistorically in inf luential management theories and concepts. It looks at howmanagerial thought accommodates morality, values, and ethics and demonstratesthe emerging patterns of ethical conduct to illustrate how moral aspectsof management and organizational practice can become peripheral.The author examines a diverse range of data sources such as the most seminalbooks in management and academic papers published in the mainstreamacademic literature. The readings selected in the process are subject to criticalanalysis and are complemented by an exploratory study of the financial servicesindustry, based on semistructured in-depth interviews. The uniqueness of theproposed approach comes first from the consolidation of many perspectivessuch as management, organization studies, and business anthropology ratherthan focusing on one particular subdiscipline; second, from using a mixedmethodology, combining literature reviews with empirical, exploratory researchbased on interviews; and third from including a narrative context in theanalysis and proposed future theory framework.This book will appeal to students, researchers, and scholars who teach ethicsin the fields of economics or business. It is useful for advancing theory andresearch on moral management and as a resource for management practitionerslooking to create business practices fostering moral sensitivity. Those interestedin setting future development directions may also find the proposedconsolidation of theoretical and empirical evidence valuable for the design offuture policies.

This book explores how ethics and the moral context of business have evolvedhistorically in inf luential management theories and concepts. It looks at howmanagerial thought accommodates morality, values, and ethics and demonstratesthe emerging patterns of ethical conduct to illustrate how moral aspectsof management and organizational practice can become peripheral.The author examines a diverse range of data sources such as the most seminalbooks in management and academic papers published in the mainstreamacademic literature. The readings selected in the process are subject to criticalanalysis and are complemented by an exploratory study of the financial servicesindustry, based on semistructured in-depth interviews. The uniqueness of theproposed approach comes first from the consolidation of many perspectivessuch as management, organization studies, and business anthropology ratherthan focusing on one particular subdiscipline; second, from using a mixedmethodology, combining literature reviews with empirical, exploratory researchbased on interviews; and third from including a narrative context in theanalysis and proposed future theory framework.This book will appeal to students, researchers, and scholars who teach ethicsin the fields of economics or business. It is useful for advancing theory andresearch on moral management and as a resource for management practitionerslooking to create business practices fostering moral sensitivity. Those interestedin setting future development directions may also find the proposedconsolidation of theoretical and empirical evidence valuable for the design offuture policies.

Organizational Aesthetics attempts to reconstruct artful representations of the organizational world and businesspeople. It looks at organizations and management through the eyes of artists, painters, and photographers and decodes meanings contained in artistic messages, grasping the aesthetic perceptions of the world of management and organization. Paintings and photos are analysed using qualitative methods from the social sciences as well as from the art analysis tradition. The novelty of the presented approach rests in the original method of parallel dialogues, taking place both in the institutional sphere and between co-authors. The institutional aspect covers a practical, business perspective and extends the narrow framework of a single discipline. It complements academic rigour with elements of digression and free conversation, revealing a variety of nuances for which conventional research paradigms do not always allow. Readers will receive a proposal on how to integrate diff erent approaches to organizational analysis stemming from artistic, managerial, and academic experiences.