Jean-Etienne Joullié

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• PhD
• Professor (Associate) at Copenhagen Business School

Purpose Ichak Adizes has developed original and practical conceptions of executive interaction, change management and corporate development, collectively referred to as “symbergetic organisational therapy”. Although his name is celebrated in some executive circles, it is not widely known within mainstream management academia. Further, Adizes’ insig...

Within workplaces, deployment of words and phraseology is the most consequential medium through which executives establish their reputation-a point also generally true for other workplace actors. Moreover, ultimately, organizational performance, irrespective of its measure, substantially depends on internal communication. Despite such import, manag...

Purpose The purpose of this article is twofold. Its first objective is to bring to the fore the unexplored and neglected origins of social exchange theory (SET) to critique this body of conjecture. This unearthing is illustrated through focusing on the way the theory was developed and how this development was mischaracterised in literature. Its sec...

Social entrepreneurship is a recent strategy for addressing public policy concerns that have traditionally been viewed as falling within the State's ambit. This article exposes the inadequacy of agency theory for interpreting how parties coexist within a multi-stakeholder service delivery configuration under the rubric of social entrepreneurship. U...

This article investigates the relationship between unselfconscious corporate virtuos-ity and corporate performance using a novel methodology. It contends that honesty in presenting CSR activities is a proxy for corporate virtuosity and that syntheticity of language indexes unselfconscious honesty in corporate reporting. The study's research questio...

Mainstream as well as critical management history literature typically establishes theorists as the most consequential protagonists in the process that created the default blueprint for employee superintendence. Accordingly, in the wake of the Industrial Revolution, the new capitalists and their agents (the emerging management class), were theoreti...

There is consensus in literature that transparency (accurate and honest reporting) in management and business research is desirable. To improve transparency, commentators have stressed that research articles contain detail about procedural replicability, thus allowing for results reproducibility, at least (in the case of samples) across multiple tr...

This essay addresses the question of how managers justify ethical values. Traditionally, ethical values have been justified by appeals to intuition expressed injunctively and judged to be obligatory. This tradition has led to ethical relativism and a widespread scepticism about the possibility of basing ethics on reasoning. There are, however, alte...

Managerialism has often been defi ned as an ideology, according to which the effective and effi cient running of commercial fi rms, not-for-profi t organizations and public administrations is delivered by individuals who possess superior formal knowledge and expertise in management. Arguing to their exclusive education, managers deprive employers a...

In the conformity and obedience studies of Asch and Milgram, legitimate authority is defined as a form of power to which subjects submit irrationally. This view assumes a causative process which the subjects’ behaviour is said to manifest. Furthermore, this view assumes that there is illegitimate (or malevolent) authority. Carl J. Friedrich's theor...

Managerialism, as an ideology and management practice, is grounded on a theory of authority. Such grounding has been neglected in the relevant literature since scholars have generally treated authority as a form of power and have ignored the view that authority is also a source of power. Following a review of the construct of authority as it appear...

Managerialism, as an ideology and management practice, is grounded on a theory of authority. Such grounding has been neglected in relevant literature because scholars have generally treated authority as a form of power but have ignored the view that authority is also a source of power. Following a review of the construct of authority as it appears...

Purpose This article aims to propose a critical review of James G. March’s research in and particular its consistency with its epistemological and psychological underpinnings. Design/methodology/approach The paper proposes a textual and conceptual analysis of James G. March’s study. Findings The article argues first that March’s study exemplifies...

Theory production has been a central focus of management research for decades, mostly because theory legitimizes both management research and, through its application, management practice as professional endeavors. However, such an emphasis on theory glosses over one of its constraining and particularized roles in scientific explanation, namely tha...

Although the practice of executive coaching has received sustained attention in literature, no theoretical framework exists to guide the language of conversations which aims to improve executive performance. This article addresses this omission. Following Richard Weaver, it resurrects an ancient distinction between noble and base language and combi...

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This article investigates why management research which ostensibly embraces scientific protocols and is reported to be practically relevant is often not so. The implications for practice sections of elite management journals were reviewed and analysed as the basis for the study. The analytic-synthetic distinction, central to logical positivism and...

Although collective bargaining is essentially a communication process, the role of language (as distinguished from discourse) in bargaining exchanges has received little attention from industrial relations scholars. Building on the work of Karl Popper, this article proposes a decomposition of language into functions and values and analyses their re...

Abstract The purpose of this article is to provide insight into how leaders obtain their power through language use. The thesis defended is that, at its best, the language of power in leadership activates specific linguistic functions in prescribed ways. This thesis draws on three subordinate arguments. First, to the extent that leadership is a rel...

The book’s premise is that the theories taught in management schools are based on unacknowledged philosophical perspectives that are significant not so much for what they explain, but for what they assume. Rarely made explicit, these perspectives cannot be reconciled, with the result that the study of management has been dominated by contradictions...

Development of graphical methods for representing data has not kept up with progress in statistical techniques. This article presents a brief history of graphical representations of research findings and makes the case for a revival of methods developed in the early and mid-twentieth century, notably ISOTYPE and Chernoff’s faces. It resurrects and...

Purpose This paper analyses the origin, conceptual underpinnings and consequences of the idea of management theory. It argues that despite claims to incommensurability and except for critical studies authors, management researchers come together in their quest for performativity. The search for theory has condemned management scholars to espouse s...

Of the three kinds of two-mean comparisons which judge a test statistic against a critical value taken from a Student t-distribution, one - the repeated measures or dependent-means application - is distinctive because it is meant to assess the value of a parameter which is not part of the natural order. This absence forces a choice between two inte...

Purpose This article takes a long term view of how the US Public and Private Sectors have been seen in relation to each other. It notes that since the time of approximatlely the Nixon Administration each sector has not been viewed favourably by the public. Over the last 40 years the private sector has been perceived as run by the unscrupulous and...

This book provides an overview of important Western philosophies and their significance for managers, management academics and management consultants. The theories taught in management schools are based on different but unacknowledged philosophical perspectives that are important not so much for what they explain, but for what they assume. Although...

This book develops a philosophy of leadership by tracing the evolution of Western ideas from philosophical perspectives, ancient and modern. Various philosophies – including ancient heroism, rationalism, cynicism, stoicism, Machiavellianism, romanticism, heroic individualism and existentialism - are pursued through a critical analysis of those idea...

This article explores the issues casual academics face in Australia and whether these pose risks to teaching quality. The logic of the rampant casualisation in Australian universities is exposed first (i.e., mainly flexibility and cost saving to offset drops in government funding), followed by a discussion on the theoretical risks casualisation gen...

The name of Homer is associated with two great epic poems — the Iliad and the Odyssey — which were required reading for well-educated people for more than 2,500 years. While scholarly debate about the true authorship of these poems continues to this day, our interest is confined to the Iliad, which dates from around 750 BCE, and describes the war b...

Homer’s characters ‘know’ things and what they do not know is not part of their character and must therefore be due to external factors. When they act in a manner contrary to what they know, they are thought to be in the grip of alien forces. But the presence of the gods, while poetically intriguing, was soon to become philosophically and dramatica...

The Greeks and the Romans developed the foundations of the Western rational tradition, with its emphasis on the free and critical pursuit of knowledge in the service of truth and personal well-being. As the Greeks were not dominated and coerced by a priestly class, they were free to draw a distinction between philosophy which is concerned with trut...

Philosophy in eighteenth-century France was dominated by the spirit of the Enlightenment which extolled neo-classicism, science and univer-salism. The result was an extreme form of rationalism in which the power of the intellect was, as the ancient Greeks maintained, supreme. Human beings are thinking, rational animals, or as Descartes put it, cogi...

In 1888, literary critic Georg Brandes wrote to Nietzsche informing him of ‘one of the profoundest psychologists of all time’ — Soren Kierkegaard. Nietzsche replied that he intended to busy himself with the ‘psychological problem’ of Kierkegaard. Sadly, Nietzsche did not read the religiously minded Dane and we are left wondering what his reaction w...

In the fifteenth century, people in what we know as Italy were living in an era dominated by competing schools of thought — Christian Humanism, Christian Stoicism, even Christian Scepticism. Into this cauldron of incompatible ideas, the ideas of pagan writers were mixed. The mood of the times was empirical and sceptical and scientists and philosoph...

Stoic philosophy owes much to Socrates, but even more to the Cynics. The founder of the Stoics, Zeno, was a disciple of Crates and the school took its name from the painted colonnade, or stoa from which he lectured. Zeno greatly admired Socrates for his strength of character and believed that Crates the Cynic (rather than Plato) was the thinker who...

Max Stirner was an eccentric German philosopher who brought Fichte down to earth and turned Schopenhauer on his head. Fichte’s statement that consciousness (ego) is everything harmonises perfectly with Stirner’s thesis, boldly defended in his infamous book of 1844, Der Einzige und Sein Eigentum, translated by Germans into English as The Unique One...

It is widely assumed that a straight line of philosophical development runs from Socrates to his most famous disciple, Plato, and on to his most famous pupil, Aristotle. There is, however, another important line of development which passes from Socrates to Antisthenes who was the father of the Cynics, and to Zeno the Stoic who was influenced by the...

The purpose of this article is to argue that the ethical concepts and principles that made Peter Drucker a leading figure in management can be analysed in the terms of the oldest Western worldview, ancient heroism. A description of the salient features of heroism is offered first, followed by an overview of Drucker’s ‘Management by Objectives’ (MBO...

This paper revisits the argument that management academics and managers benefit from being knowledgeable in Western philosophy. Salient debates in management research and education that have emerged over the last decades are first summarised. The theoretical uncertainties that these debates have highlighted are then located within a brief overview...

I argue that managers, management academics, and management students benefit from being knowledgeable in Western philosophy. To that effect, a survey of six major themes of Western philosophy is offered: heroism, rationalism, positivism, romanticism, existentialism, and postmodernism. This survey reveals that the dominating themes taught in managem...

Nietzsche hoped to make will to power the centrepiece of his late philosophy and the basis on which a revaluation of all values would be possible. In this grandiose project, he encountered problems that were to prove insurmountable: the criticisms he had directed at his predecessors returned to sabotage his plans. Will to power is a stillborn philo...

1. Among the many targets Nietzsche aimed at in On the Genealogy of Morals, one is the focus of an entire essay: the ‘ascetic ideal’. Through this expression, Nietzsche encapsulated several of the themes that preoc- cupied him in earlier works and continued to do so in later ones, even if the expression itself disappeared from his vocabulary.1 Thes...

1. On the morning of January 3, 1889, upon seeing a cart driver beating his horse in a street in Turin, Nietzsche ran to the scene and interposed himself between man and animal. Seconds later, he collapsed physically and psychologically. Nietzsche, the philosopher who a couple of years earlier wrote that the advancement of the species justified a m...

1. Among the various roles that Nietzsche assigned to his concept of will to power, one stood out early on. From Thus Spoke Zarathustra onwards, will to power was at times proposed as the drive or set of drives explaining the totality of man’ behaviour, at other times as the process underpinning all organic events to the extent that the phenomena ‘...

1. The first challenge that a commentator on Nietzsche faces, even before attempting to make a case for the relevance of his work, is to justify the work’ very existence among a flooding tide of literature. It was observed in 2006 that over nineteen thousand books and articles about Nietzsche the man, his life or his philosophy had been published s...

1. In the literature, Nietzsche’ final stance on metaphysics and its relationship to will to power is a matter of debate and controversy. For many, indeed most, commentators, Nietzsche was the antimetaphysi-cian philosopher par exe eile nee, the one who could not contemplate pursuing a metaphysical line of thought without jeopardising his whole lif...