The Critique of Management

7 Conclusion

DOI: 10.4324/9781003231875-7

The problem statement of this study was found in the ubiquity of management in our contemporary society, ranging from self-management to Earth systems management and from business management to social network management, while the systematic study of what we actually mean with the term is relatively absent. In management science, management is self-evidently understood as managerial power and mechanism of control, while in the philosophy of management, the question of what business management is is relatively absent. This leads to the main question of this study: what is (business) management. In order to answer the question of what is business management, we engaged in a critique of management, that ...