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The Management of Knowledge—Systems Age Inquiry

In: Everybody’s Business: Reclaiming True Management Skills in Business Higher Education

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  • Ian I. Mitroff

    (University of Southern California
    University of California)

  • Can M. Alpaslan

    (California State University)

  • Ellen S. O’Connor

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.

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  • Ian I. Mitroff & Can M. Alpaslan & Ellen S. O’Connor, 2014. "The Management of Knowledge—Systems Age Inquiry," Palgrave Macmillan Books, in: Everybody’s Business: Reclaiming True Management Skills in Business Higher Education, chapter 5, pages 52-79, Palgrave Macmillan.
    • Handle: RePEc:pal:palchp:978-1-137-41205-8_5
    DOI: 10.1057/9781137412058_5
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