Editorial: Philosophy of Management as Moving Beyond Critical Axiologies?

Our view of philosophy of management, expressed previously (Dibben and Sheard, 2012; also Dibben, 2010), is that it allows a more complete and practically thoroughgoing rendering of topics pertinent to the thinking manager. That is, more complete and practically thoroughgoing than appears feasible to us from within the axiological confines – in particular – of what has come to be known as critical management studies (CMS). By comparison, we argue, philosophy of management concerns itself with the serious-minded and critically self-aware “opening up the field of inquiry, re-connecting management and the experience of managing with the genuineness of its place in Nature” (Dibben and Sheard, 2012: 7).