Department of Business Humanities and Law

Managerial Action and Interpretation - Hermeneutics revisited

Seminar with Professor Bengt Kristensson Uggla, Åbo Akademi University

Thursday, March 11, 2010 - 15:00 to 17:00

 

MPP SEMINAR SERIES - Spring 2010

Theme: Philosophies of Management - perspectives on action in contemporary thought

 

 

 

11 March 15:00-17:00

Professor Bengt Kristensson Uggla:

Managerial Action and Interpretation - Hermeneutics revisited

How is the struggle for defining “reality” and the managerial consequences of such an undertaking to be understood in terms of hermeneutics?

The next guest in our Philosophies of Management Seminar Series is a philosopher working in the crossfields of culture, management and globalization. Bengt Kristensson Uggla has a long experience within the field of executive education in management and is as a scholar generally focusing on hermeneutics and globalization and especially on the work of French philosopher Paul Ricoeur. Dr Rasmus Johnsen from MPP has agreed to kick off the lively discussion after Bengt’s lecture.

Bengt Kristensson Uggla is holding the Amos Anderson chair in philosophy, culture and management at Åbo Akademi University, Finland. A series of essays on the actual status of hermeneutics has just been published by Contiuum Books "Ricoeur, Hermeneutics, and Globalization." In his doctoral dissertation from 1994, "Communication at the bursting-point," Bengt presented a reading of the oeuvre of Paul Ricoeur from the 30s to the 90s from a communicative perspective. Since his best-selling book "The Battle on the Real" (Slaget om verkligheten: filosofi, omvärldsanalys, tolkning) in 2002, he has published numerous of articles aiming to bringing hermeneutics into the realm of global management and economy. Before taking up his current academic position Bengt was dean of one of the most established executive education in Northern Europe, Swedish Institute of Management, among other things he is also the head of the Nomadic University for Art, Philosophy and Enterprise in Europe (www.nurope.eu).

Registration: Anje Schmidt, as.lpf@cbs.dk

The seminar is part of the seminar series on Philosophies of Management:

MPP Seminar Series

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