The Absent Centre: The Neglect of Philosophy in Anglo-American Management Theory

The article concerns the neglect of philosophical issues within management theory. It argues that the rise of ‘Heathrow Organization Theory’, whatever its country of origin, has been characterized by a philosophical vacuuity. There is rarely any discussion of Modernism let alone Postmodernism within the literature which relies upon a very crude pragmatism. The paper includes, not that Postmodernism should be embraced but that the philosophical issues filling management theory should be directly confronted.