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    Towards a Theory of Moral Business

    Series series Finance, Governance and Sustainability
    This book explores how ethics and the moral context of business have evolvedhistorically in inf luential management theories and concepts. It looks at howmanagerial thought accommodates morality, values, and ethics and demonstratesthe emerging patterns of ethical conduct to illustrate how moral aspectsof management and organizational practice can become peripheral.The author examines a diverse ... Read more

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  • Organizational Aesthetics

    Artful Visual Representations of Business and Organizations

    Series series Routledge Focus on Business and Management
    Organizational Aesthetics attempts to reconstruct artful representations of the organizational world and businesspeople. It looks at organizations and management through the eyes of artists, painters, and photographers and decodes meanings contained in artistic messages, grasping the aesthetic perceptions of the world of management and organization. Paintings and photos are analysed using ... Read more

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  • Educational Leadership

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    Information overload, the shallows, weapons of mass distraction, the googlization of minds: countless commentators condemn the flood of images and information that dooms us to a pathological attention deficit.In this new book, cultural theorist Yves Citton goes against the tide of these standard laments to offer a new perspective on the problem of attention in the digital age. Phrases like �paying ... Read more

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  • The Oxford Handbook of Gender in Organizations

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