This paper seeks to explore the role of virtues in the context of management from a religious perspective. Its objective is to shed some light on the significance of Martin Luther's anthropology and theology of justification for a modern understanding of practical wisdom. The paper reviews some passages of source literature by Martin Luther and – with side glances to Georg Simmel – reflects on basic structures of personal failure, as implied by Luther's metaphor of the self-inclined man (homo incurvatus in se ipsum). By developing two theses, the paper proceeds to the question whether a protestant re-formulation of practical wisdom could be useful to overcome self-reference, not only on a personal, but also on an organisational level. Faith and love, reformulated as virtues of practical wisdom for modern management from a protestant perspective can be understood as a receptive attitude and the ability to establish non-instrumentalised and respectful relationships to humans. Lived by managers, they could help preventing companies and economy at large, to get caught in self-referential, and inherently instable feedback cycles. The change of perspective, inspired by Luther's theology of justification, enriches the notion of practical wisdom with new connotations and makes them accessible to the discourse over virtues in management.
The bidomain equations, a continuum approximation of cardiac tissue based on the idea of a functional syncytium, are widely accepted as one of the most complete descriptions of cardiac bioelectric activity at the tissue and organ level. Numerous studies employed bidomain simulations to investigat...
This paper responds to calls for pragmatic context-dependent cross-cultural scholarship. Specifically, with regard to global organisations, we attempt to reconcile the imbalance between global and local concerns by proposing a framework that merges a new understanding of culture with a classical ...
Current mainstream management theory is based on incomplete assumptions regarding the nature of human beings and human action, leading to damaging practical results. This paper aims to draw on personalism for the formulation of better assumptions for theory. The main problems in current assumptio...
This paper aims to look at the development of economic theory into what Aristotle called a Â-theoretical science and the subsequent rejection of practical wisdom. Since business education is largely based on economic theory, this has an effect on management and other business disciplines. This...
The purpose of the paper is to illustrate application of the cleaner production concept so as to incorporate environmental protection into business performance. The study analyses areas pertaining to the foundry industry that impact negatively on the environment leading to unsustainable resource ...
Both common wisdom and findings from multiple areas of research suggest that it is helpful to understand and make meaning out of negative experiences. However, people’s attempts to do so often backfire, leading them to ruminate and feel worse. Here we attempt to shed light on these seemingl...
In order to adequately incorporate measures of reliability in water resources planning, synthetically generated streamflow sequences are often applied in addition to historic time series. In spite of decades of research on parametric stochastic generation methods, their practical use has not been...
His paper draws on classical theories of wisdom to explore the organisational impact of nurses on Australian general practice. Between 2004 and 2008, numbers of general practice nurses doubled, the most rapid influx of nurses into any Australian workplace over the decade. Using data from the Aust...
S90049, a novel sublingual formulation of the non-ergoline D2-D3 agonist piribedil, has a pharmacokinetic profile promising to provide rapid relief on motor signs in Parkinson's disease (PD). We assessed the efficacy and safety of S90049 in aborting OFF episodes responding to subcutaneous apomorp...
Psychotherapists attempt to cultivate sensitivity to difference in their work with diverse client populations. Developing therapists may also benefit from theoretical and practical encounters with difference during graduate training. Although graduate students may thrive in training institutions ...
