
Applications of Practical Wisdom in Business and Management
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This book deals with the application of the concept in business and management studies. It provides an overview of key areas of empirical research, and looks at the positioning of practical wisdom within a range of business and management contexts. These include management development and education, leadership, knowledge management, decision making, entrepreneurship, and artificial intelligence.Further more, the contributions provide an opportunity to explore interdisciplinary links, contemporary issues and future directions of study. This includes perspectives from social science, psychology, education and other disciplines. It provides some scope for new conceptual development, for instance by encouraging intersectional discussion with other traditions, and includes critical voices.
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Caleb Bernacchio is a doctoral candidate in business ethics at IESE Business School in Barcelona. He holds a B Phil from the Pontifical University of St Thomas in Rome, an MBA from Louisiana State University, and an MRM from IESE Business School. Caleb's primary research interests concern the intersection of neo-Aristotelian practical philosophy, especially virtue ethics and action theory, with issues in organization theory, strategy, and entrepreneurship research. He has published in Business Ethics Quarterly, Business Ethics: A European Review, and Philosophy of Management.
César González-Cantón is Assistant Professor at CUNEF - Universidad Complutense de Madrid. He holds an MBA from IESE Business School (2007) and aPhD in Philosophy (2004) from Universidad Complutense de Madrid. His research interests extend mainly in three directions: 1) The intersection of capability approach, human rights, and business ethics; 2) Philosophy of economics and management; 3) Practical wisdom. He has taught at several universities, including Universidad de Navarra and Universitat Pompeu Fabra in Spain. He has been Research Fellow of the Business Ethics Chair at IESE and had visiting appointments in University of Notre Dame (USA) and Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster (Germany). Two of his co-authored books were published with Palgrave McMillan in 2014: Human Foundations of Management and Phronesis and Quiddity in Management. He has also published in the Journal of Business Ethics and philosophical outlets.
Angus Robson is a lecturer at Newcastle Business School, Northumbria University. Prior to this, he led social enterprises and regeneration projects in the UK, raising skills and employability in areas suffering economic deprivation. He holds a PhD (2014) in Business Ethics from Northumbria. His main research interest is in Aristotelian virtue ethics, with a particular emphasis on the work of Alasdair MacIntyre and Hans Georg Gadamer. He has additional research interests in ethics of care and machine ethics. The empirical context of his work is Scottish banking after the global financial crisis. In addition to a number of conference papers on these topics, he has published in Business Ethics: A European Review.