The Management of Knowledge—Systems Age Inquiry

Ian I. Mitroff, Can M. Alpaslan and Ellen S. O’Connor
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Ian I. Mitroff: University of Southern California
Can M. Alpaslan: California State University

Chapter 5 in Everybody’s Business: Reclaiming True Management Skills in Business Higher Education, 2014, pp 52-79 from Palgrave Macmillan

Abstract: Abstract One of the most important philosophical assumptions of the Machine Age is that the true (epistemology), the good (ethics), and the beautiful (aesthetics) are separable. Business schools not only accepted but promulgated further the division between the true, the good, and the beautiful. In the Systems Age, however, truth is that which makes an ethical difference in the quality of one’s life. The most general question we want to pursue in this chapter is, “What kinds of systems of inquiry (knowledge systems) are appropriate for studying and managing messes?” The general topic of Inquiry Systems is central to answering this question. We argue that truth, goodness and beauty are the results of the Management of Inquiry.

Keywords: Inquiry System; Business School; Brain Death; System Thinking; Fourth Approach (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2014
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DOI: 10.1057/9781137412058_5

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