When Organizations Become Shipwrecked : An Ethical Approach to Meaning Crises in Business (Ethical Economy 71) （2026. vi, 472 S. VI, 472 p. 235 mm）

Dion, Michel

SPRINGER, BERLIN; SPRINGER（2026/01発売）

• 製本 Hardcover:ハードカバー版
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9783032141811

Full Description

This book offers a philosophical and ethical outlook on the existential (ontic) obstacles that are involved in organizational crises: indecisiveness, withdrawnness, and unsettlement. It emphasizes the ontic basis of all kinds of meaning crises in organizations. These vary from the degeneration of values, representations, and beliefs that cause ethical apathy and indifferentism (a crucial antecedent of a meaning crisis) to the lack of ethical questioning and of ethical consistency. The latter being a very important conditioning factor for the unfolding of a meaning crisis in an organization. Nonetheless, optimal solutions are available for solving meaning crises in a philosophically consistent and ethical way. Academics (and doctoral students) whose field of expertise include the philosophical basis of business ethics, will benefit from reading this book as it provides a philosophical and ethical viewpoint on organizational crises and reveals how values, representations, and beliefs are the main issues in meaning crises.

Contents

Chapter 1 Introduction.- Part I Ethical Crises and The Obstacle of Indecisiveness.- Chapter 2 The Interconnectedness of Wisdom, Morality, and Happiness: Overcoming the Limitations of Moral Consistency and Pity, When Preventing and Resolving a Value Crisis in the Organization.- Chapter 3 The Autonomy of the Will as the Ground for Morality: Overcoming the Limitations of Kantianism, When Preventing and Resolving a Crisis of Moral Principles in the Organizational Life.- Chapter 4 Self-Created Values as the Ground for Morality: Avoiding the Pitfall of the Absolutization of Individual Freedom.- Part II Crises of Representations and the Obstacle of Withdrawnness.- Chapter 5 The Moral Inquirer and the Changing Representations of Human Personalities and Virtues: A Philosophical Challenge for Preventing and Resolving a Crisis of Representations in the Organizational Life.- Chapter 6 The Will and Representations: The Need to Prevent and Resolve a Crisis of Representations in the Organizational Life.- Chapter 7 The Dialogical Character of Human Existence: Overcoming the Limitations of Relationally Centered Views on Humankind, When Preventing and Resolving a Crisis of Representations in the Organizational Life.- Part III Crises of Beliefs and the Obstacle of Unsettledness.- Chapter 8 Overcoming the Limitations of Philosophical Egoism, When Preventing and Resolving a Crisis of Beliefs in the Organizational Life.- Chapter 9 Overcoming the Limitations of Utilitarianism, When Preventing and Resolving a Crisis of Beliefs in the Organizational Life.- Chapter 10 Overcoming the Limitations of Existential Philosophy, When Preventing and Resolving a Crisis of Beliefs in the Organizational Life.- Chapter 11 Conclusion.