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African Ubuntu Philosophy and Global Management

Lutz, David W.
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Lutz, David W.
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management
Philosophy
African Traditional Religions
Aristotelian ethics
Confucian ethics
Confucianism
globalization
community
common good
moral community
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Economic ethics
Business ethics
Labour/professional ethics
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Confucian Ethics / 儒家伦理
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In our age of globalization, we need a theory of global management consistent with our common human nature. The place to begin in developing such a theory is the philosophy of traditional cultures. The article focuses on African philosophy and its fruitfulness for contributing to a theory of management consistent with African traditional cultures. It also looks briefly at the Confucian and Platonic-Aristotelian traditions and notes points of agreement with African traditions. It concludes that the needed theory of global management should regard the firm as a community, not a collection of individuals, and should understand the purpose of management as promoting the common good.
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2009-10-10
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