RT Article
T1 Using Sartre’s Critique of Dialectical Reason for Managerial Decision-Making
JF Journal of business ethics
VO 112
IS 2
SP 341
OP 352
A1 Kleist, Chad
LA English
YR 2013
UL https://ixtheo.de/Record/1785646672
AB This article will offer an alternative understanding of managerial decision-making drawing from Sartre’s Critique of Dialectical Reason rather than simply Being and Nothingness. I will begin with a brief explanation of Sartre’s account of freedom in Being and Nothingness. I will then show in the second section how Andrew West uses Sartre’s conception of radical freedom from Being and Nothingness for a managerial decision-making model. In the third section, I will explore a more robust account of freedom from Sartre’s Critique of Dialectical Reason. I will attempt to show that freedom is not simply a matter of choosing (or not choosing) to perform an action, but entails external constraints—including other people. Finally, I will provide the implications of this account of freedom for managerial decision-making. I will show that it’s unreasonable to place full responsibility and/or blame on managers given their constraints. This does not absolve them from responsibility, but better accounts for the way in which we ought to hold them responsible.
K1 Critique of dialectical reason
K1 Responsibility
K1 Freedom
K1 Existentialism
K1 moral decision-making
K1 Jean-Paul Sartre
DO 10.1007/s10551-012-1266-x