Cultural Reflection in Management

This book deals with different visions of culture in management, emphasising epistemological and methodological pluralism, and the need for the development of new, creative concepts of culture. It presents reflections on the most significant cognitive problems of cultural currents.

Culture in management is an important issue from both theoretical and practical points of view. Culture is a universal medium, in which people act and organisations are submerged. It is a basis for all processes, such as communication; and it also remains an open and ambiguous phenomenon. This book deals with different visions of culture in management, emphasising epistemological and methodological pluralism, and the need for the development of new, creative concepts of culture. The book presents reflections on the most significant cognitive problems of cultural currents, provides an analysis of well-known and popular functionalist concepts of culture in management and ends with a presentation of less popular perspectives.

Autorentext

ukasz Sükowski is a professor of economic sciences, specializing in management sciences. He currently works at the Institute of Public Affairs of the Jagiellonian University and is Director of Clark University Branch Campus at the University of Social Sciences in Poland.

Inhalt

Paradigm of functionalism in organizational culture Culture of society in management Culture and organisational culture from the neo-evolutionary perspective The interpretative understanding of culture in management The radical vision of culture in management