ON BULLSHIT MANAGEMENT – THE CRITICAL MANAGEMENT STUDIES PERSPECTIVE

Harry Frankfurt established the discourse about "bullshit" in social sciences. However, in business and economics the concept is not that widely used. The purpose of this study is to explain the concept of "bullshit management". The method of research is qualitative, systematic l...

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Published inEconomics & sociology Vol. 12; no. 1; pp. 302 - 368
Main Author Sułkowski, Łukasz
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Ternopil Centre of Sociological Research (NGO) 01.01.2019
Subjects
Business communications
Corporate culture
Critical theory
Dictionaries
Epistemology
False information
Information technology
International relations
Internet
Literature reviews
Lying
Management
Marketing
Organizational research
Philosophers
Social networks
Social research
Social sciences
Strategic management
Studies
Theory
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Summary:Harry Frankfurt established the discourse about "bullshit" in social sciences. However, in business and economics the concept is not that widely used. The purpose of this study is to explain the concept of "bullshit management". The method of research is qualitative, systematic literature review which includes bibliographical data from the Internet databases. The results leads us to two main meanings of "bullshit management". The first one is "humbug" language in business practice and the second is pseudo-scientific discourse in management theory. CMS could be the theoretical background for "bullshit management" thinking. In conclusion we underline that the critical approach to "bullshit management" could play the Ockham's razor role.
ISSN:2071-789X
2306-3459
DOI:10.14254/2071789X.2019/12-1/18