9Virtuous Work and Organizational Culture
The Role of Practical Wisdom in Organizational Theory
In the last decades, Aristotelian virtue ethics has experienced a revival (Ferrero & Sison, 2014). We sustain that its application to organizational theory (Nonaka & Takeuchi, 2011, Solomon, 2004; Weaver, 2006) presents good opportunity for understanding practical knowledge of organizations effective to humanize business practices in a way that can overcome the rationalistic and mechanistic paradigm (Tsoukas & Cummings, 1997).
The mechanistic approach to organizational theory emphasizes quantifications of economic thought overshadowing character ...
