Pragmatism and Management Inquiry Insights from the Thought of Charles S. Peirce

Subjects:

• Business » Management
• Business » Business Ethics
• Philosophy » Philosophical Theory

Reviews:

• Those willing to discover the nature of management at a very theoretical level should be forewarned: this book is 80 percent about Peirce's pragmatic philosophy of human action, intelligent problem solving, and the principles of scientific inquiry. But having mastered that pragmatic perspective, what a world is opened to view! The rest of this book is a provocative exploration of central issues in management science. Most important, it locates moral decision making at the heart of organizational theory. Recommended for libraries maintaining business and management collections; upper-division undergraduates through practitioners.
  —Choice February 2003

Table of Contents:

• Foreword
• Prologue of the Spanish Edition
• Introduction
• Human Action in the Thought of Charles S. Peirce
• Charles S. Peirce: A Life Devoted to Science
• The Triadic Conception of Human Action
• The World in Which Man Acts
• The Task of Knowing and Interpreting the World
• The Scientific Character of Management
• The Decision-Making Process
• Decision Criteria in Management
• The Synthetical Character of Management
• The Scientific Attitude in Management
• Three Principles for Management
• Creativity, the Logical Priciple of Action
• Community, the Ethical Priciple of Action
• Character, the Esthetic Priciple of Action
• Epilogue for Entrepreneurs: A Challenge for the 21st Century
• References
• Index