Action At A Distance: Studies In The Practicalities Of Executive Management (Philosophy And Method In The Social Sciences)

The world of the senior manager -- Management as a common sense construct -- Studies in the practicalities of executive management -- Representations and realities -- Representations without metaphysics -- Intersubjectivity and the arts of financial management -- The contingencies of due process -- Sensitivity analysis as practical modal realism -- Benchmarking as reality conjuncture -- Does it wash its face? -- Plans and their situated actions -- Conclusion -- Ethnomethodology : a first sociology? -- Index

• | Author: Robert John Anderson, Wes W. Sharrock
• | Publisher: Routledge
• | Publication Date: May 08, 2018
• | Number of Pages: 180 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Hardcover
• | ISBN-10: 1138504149
• | ISBN-13: 9781138504141