Humanistic Management
About the Book Series
Humanistic Management draws together the concepts of social business, sustainability, social entrepreneurship, business ethics, conscious capitalism and cooperative capitalism to present a new humanistically-based research paradigm. This new paradigm challenges the prevailing neo-liberal ‘economistic’ approach that dominates twentieth-century management theory and practice, and instead emphasises the need to protect human dignity and wellbeing as well as economic drivers.
AI and Humanistic Management: Aesthetics in Managerial Theory and Practice
1st Edition
Edited
By Michał Szostak
October 27, 2025
This book, situated at the intersection of humanistic management, aesthetics, and AI studies, aims to explore how the emergence of AI-driven solutions reshapes managerial paradigms, alters human experiences within organisations, and redefines the values guiding leadership, communication, and ...
Organizations, Humanism and AI: An Aesthetics Approach
1st Edition
Edited
By Michał Szostak
October 27, 2025
This volume explores the role of the aesthetics of the synergy between humanism and AI on the level of institutions and organisations, influencing individuals’ well-being. Grounded in the principles of the humanistic management paradigm—emphasising sustainability, social organisations and ...
Street Performance and Alternative Organisation: Aesthetics, the Arts and Humanistic Management
1st Edition
By Marta Połeć
July 31, 2025
The book presents a description of the phenomenon of organising street performances, both informal and within formalised structures, as well as its interpretation from the point of view of humanistic management. The book is a result of ethnographic fieldwork conducted in Polish and European cities ...
Humanistic Management, Organization and Aesthetics: Art of Management and Management of Art
1st Edition
By Michał Szostak
April 13, 2025
The book is the first worldwide publication of a complex theory of management aesthetics in humanistic management based on the aesthetics and arts approach allowing for a complete and systemic understanding of the management art and art management phenomena. The methodology is based on the critical...
Rethinking Dignity in the Workplace: A Relational Approach
1st Edition
By Laura Mitchell
February 28, 2025
Dignity in the context of work organisations has been explored by a range of scholars globally, yet the potential of this interdisciplinary concept is overwhelmed by our commitment to outdated philosophies and the narrow paradigmatic concerns of academic subdisciplines. Bringing together the work ...
Management Aesthetics: Kitsch and Modern Organisations
1st Edition
Edited
By Michał Szostak
November 18, 2024
This edited collection presents the complex theory of kitsch from aesthetic and artistic points of view, transposed into managerial and organisational fields. In the spirit of management aesthetics, on the ground of humanistic management, the central aim of the volume is to show that kitsch is a ...
Love and Organization: Lessons of Love for Human Dignity, Leadership and Motivation
1st Edition
Edited
By Michael Pirson
January 29, 2024
Organizations are not human, but they are made up of people. Examining the organization, functioning, growing and developing and moving together as one unit, the well-being and success of that organization depends on the well-being of people that make it up. Love, in its various forms, is the ...
Alternative Theories of the Firm
1st Edition
Edited
By Michael Pirson, David M. Wasieleski, Erica L. Steckler
September 25, 2023
The Theory of the Firm is commonly viewed as axiomatic by business school academicians. Considerations in spanning organizational structures, their boundaries and roles, as well as business strategies all relate to the Theory of the Firm. The dominant Theory of the Firm poses that markets act ...
Humanistic Management and Sustainable Tourism: Human, Social and Environmental Challenges
1st Edition
Edited
By Maria Della Lucia, Ernestina Giudici
August 29, 2022
Tourism is a fast-growing and changing industry, which has become a driver of economic development in both developed and underdeveloped countries. While the tourism industry’s potential for shared value creation and sustainable development is acknowledged, the concerns around the environmental and ...
Humanistic Tourism: Values, Norms and Dignity
1st Edition
Edited
By Maria Della Lucia, Ernestina Giudici
August 01, 2022
Human dignity has experienced limited attention in tourism studies. The interlinked dimensions of dignity in tourism urgently ask for broad avenues of future research, as tourism is both an information-intensive industry and an "experience good" resulting from the relationship and co-creation ...
Motivation in Organisations: Searching for a Meaningful Work-Life Balance
1st Edition
By Manuel Guillen
May 30, 2022
Motivation in Organisations: Searching for a Meaningful Work-Life Balance extends the current motivation models in business education to include motives of human behaviour that have been neglected for decades. It debunks some of the myths about human motivation (self-interest as the dominant ...
Aesthetics, Organization, and Humanistic Management
1st Edition
Edited
By Monika Kostera, Cezary Wozniak
April 29, 2022
This book is a reaction to the reductionist and exploitative ideas dominating the mainstream contemporary management discourse and practice, and an attempt to broaden the horizons of possibility for both managers and organization scholars. It brings together the scholarly fields of humanistic ...