New AdmEthics book publication: Intellectual life for administration
The collection brings together nine essays on the cultivation of the intellectual life as a condition for the formation of the administrator. The argument that articulates the chapters is that management, understood as human action and not as a technique for optimizing resources, requires the exercise of prudence in the Aristotelian-Thomistic sense, that is, the […]
Why Putting Experts in a Room Isn’t Enough to Solve Complex Problems
Nicolas Rufino dos Santos An epistemic framework is the worldview that expresses a researcher’s values and intentions, even if implicitly. It is through this analytical dimension that one can extract the ideological roots of scientific theories. The selected scopes and the interpretations drawn from them reveal the epistemic framework (GARCÍA, 1994). To illustrate the importance […]