Witnessing Philosophy in Management

MPP-seminar with Professor Janet Borgerson, Exeter University

Janet Borgerson is a philosopher who has navigated in the field of management, marketing and organization for a long time. Her overall question now is what happens to philosophy when it encounters economic reality, does management philosophy make us philosophize differently. The article joined to this invitation indicates her original approach to the overall theme of MPP spring lectures; Philosophies of Management?

Janet received her B.A. (Philosophy) from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, and M.A. and Ph.D. (Philosophy) from the University of Wisconsin, Madison – writing a doctoral thesis on power and ethics under Professor Claudia Card. She completed postdoctoral work in existential phenomenology at Brown University and pursued further study in Bioethics at Harvard University School of Public Health.

Borgerson has served as Malmsten Visiting Professor in the Center for Consumer Science at Gothenburg University, Sweden, and Research Fellow at the Centre of Digital Enterprise, University of Auckland Business School. Since 2004, she has been a member of the Editorial Review Board of Consumption Markets and Culture. She has taught in the U.S., in England, France, Sweden, and Finland, and at the MBA, Executive, Ph.D., Master’s, and Undergraduate levels. Courses and seminars include: Ethical Issues in Marketing; Marketing Imagination; Philosophy and Leadership; Ethics in Organization; Philosophies of the Future: Innovation and Incompleteness; Ethical Issues of Business and Medicine; and Mapping Ontological Flows.