Historical translations and underground transfers of knowledge and values between cultural domains merit more attention. This book discusses the past, present and future of meaning. It shows how management of meaning in organizations fuels sociocultural evolution in complex societies, changing semantic fields of possible meanings ahead.

Autorentext
SLAWEK MAGALA is head of the department of Organizational Theory and HRM at the Rotterdam School of Management, Erasmus University, the Netherlands. He is interested in problems of philosophy and sociology of culture.

Inhalt
Introduction: Can Values and Meanings be Outsourced and if so to whom? The Past of Meaning (Lost and Gained in Historical Translations) The Present Tense of Meaning (Underground Passages, The Cunning of Reason and the Return of Virtues) The Future of Meaning (Cultural Revolutions, Social Transformations and the Struggle Between Truths and Democracies Instead of Conclusions: Managerial Philosophies and Mirrors of Organizational Cultures