Ghislain Deslandes is a French

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born in

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(

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) on the 16th of August 1970. His interdisciplinary discourse spans such topics as

Media management Media management is a business administration discipline that identifies and describes strategic and operational phenomena and problems in the leadership of media enterprises. Media management contains the functions strategic management, procuremen ...

, Leadership studies and Postmodern theology. He is a full professor at

ESCP Business School ESCP Business School (french: École Supérieure de Commerce de Paris) is a French business school and ''grande école'' founded in Paris and based across Europe with campuses in Paris, Berlin, London, Madrid, Turin, and Warsaw. It is consis ...

and a former program director at the Collège International de Philosophie (CIPh). He received the EFMD-FNEGE Best Essay Award in 2015 and the first ESCP Research award in 2019.

Academic and professional positions

Europe, he is a member of the Law, Economics and Humanities department and he is best known as the academic director of the advanced Media Management program since 1997, a pioneer in Europe in the domain of media economics and

media management Media management is a business administration discipline that identifies and describes strategic and operational phenomena and problems in the leadership of media enterprises. Media management contains the functions strategic management, procuremen ...

created ten years before. With the help of a sponsoring committee made up of professionals such as Jean Drucker, Jacques Rigaud and Daniel Toscan du Plantier, the pedagogical content has focused on editorial transformations and economic changes in both new and traditional media. Before entering academia, he has occupied various senior positions in the

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and digital industries from 1994 until 2007, when he transferred a news publishing company that he had run four years. He is now an editorial board member of Business and Professional Ethics Journal (BPEJ), of International Journal on Media Management (JMM), of Journal of Media Business Studies, and a regular contributor to Xerfi Canal. He is also a Board Member of the Société des Amis de Port-Royal.

Research work

Media management

His research has contributed to the consolidation of a European orientation, especially through his involvement in the activities of EMMA, to media organization studies. His initial work presents

less as a new academic discipline than as a multi-paradigm field of research that challenges the universalist approaches to management science. Hence his special interest for the place of

ethics Ethics or moral philosophy is a branch of philosophy that "involves systematizing, defending, and recommending concepts of right and wrong behavior".''Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy'' The field of ethics, along with aesthetics, concer ...

, CSR and organizational identity in managing media companies and

entertainment Entertainment is a form of activity that holds the attention and interest of an audience or gives pleasure and delight. It can be an idea or a task, but is more likely to be one of the activities or events that have developed over thousa ...

businesses.

Philosophy of management

Drawing on various sources of

continental philosophy Continental philosophy is a term used to describe some philosophers and philosophical traditions that do not fall under the umbrella of analytic philosophy. However, there is no academic consensus on the definition of continental philosophy. Pri ...

his work highlights the fact that

in business cannot be taught or understood as any other management "knowledge". In the

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, the "oikonomos" was not only dedicated to take advantage of existing assets but also to master his/her self and to care for the society as a whole. At the Collège international de philosophie, he developed a research program which aimed to extend the efforts made by critical and phenomenological researchers in order to discuss the commonly-held epistemic and political aspects of modern

management Management (or managing) is the administration of an organization, whether it is a business, a nonprofit organization, or a government body. It is the art and science of managing resources of the business. Management includes the activitie ...

. The program emphasized "the crisis of the foundations faced by management science in its ethical/philosophical aims", a crisis that can be defined as ''desaffectio societatis'', and which seems to affect managers more and more.

Leadership studies

From an interpretation of

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and

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’s analysis of power, he suggests new concepts to discuss the question of leadership responsibility, rethinking the usual way of considering it : practical wisdom, skeptical humanism or "double thought". It leads him to show that power cannot be separated from a dialectic of abilities and disabilities; this approach is at the root of several contributions about the strategic "vision" and gender issues using the works of

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and

Gilles Deleuze Gilles Louis René Deleuze ( , ; 18 January 1925 – 4 November 1995) was a French philosopher who, from the early 1950s until his death in 1995, wrote on philosophy, literature, film, and fine art. His most popular works were the two volu ...

, and about the ''beau geste'' as a critical behavior in organizations.

Continental philosophy of religion

In this field, he applies the notion of antiphilosophy as defined by

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to a comparative philosophical analysis of Kierkegaard and

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. He examines the unique position occupied by these two authors that he defines as an ''antiphilosophy of christianity'' in light of their idiosyncratic understanding of the relationship between faith and philosophical doubt. He also explores the connections between this position and more recent currents of thought, with particular reference to John Caputo,

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and

Michel Henry Michel Henry (; 10 January 1922 – 3 July 2002) was a French philosopher, phenomenologist and novelist. He wrote five novels and numerous philosophical works. He also lectured at universities in France, Belgium, the United States, and Japa ...

. This perspective is also largely discussed in his essay focusing on the idea of "beginning" in Lequier's philosophy

Bibliography

Books

* ''The Idea of Beginning in Jules Lequier's Philosophy'',

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, 2023. * ''Antiphilosophy of Christianity'',

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, 2021. * ''Court traité sur la recherche d'une première vérité'', Editions Ovadia, Nice•Paris•Bruxelles•Montréal, 2020. * ''A propos du management et d'un problème plus général'',

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, Paris, 2020. * ''Critique de la condition managériale'',

, Paris, 2016. * ''Essai sur les données philosophiques du management'',

, Paris, 2013. * ''Le management des médias'', Collection Repères, Editions La Découverte, Paris, 2008.

Academic publications (selection)

* Branching-off in the Anthropocene era,

Organization Studies (journal) ''Organization Studies'' is a monthly peer-reviewed academic journal that covers the field of organization studies. The journal's editors-in-chief are Renate Meyer and Paolo Quattrone. It was established in 1980 and is published by Sage Publicat ...

, 2021. * Understanding the Human in Stakeholder Theory: a Phenomenological Approach to Affect-based Theory, Management Learning, with M. Painter and M. Perezts, 2020. * Formal and Informal Benevolence in a Profit-Oriented Context,

Journal of Business Ethics The ''Journal of Business Ethics'' is a peer-reviewed academic journal published by Springer Nature B.V. The Journal of Business Ethics is one of th50 top business journals used by the Financial Times (FT)in compiling the prestigious Business Sch ...

, with G. Mercier, 2019. * European Management Teaching and Research: Reflections on the Life and Work of A. Blanqui, European Management Journal, 2019. * Escape from freedom: Revisiting Erich Fromm in the light of Contemporary Authoritarianism,

, 2018 * Talent Management: The Good, the Bad, and the Possible, European Management Review, with M. Painter-Morland, S. Kirk and C. Tansley, 2018. * Weak Theology and Organization Studies,

, 2018. * Authentic Leading as Relational Accountability: Facing up to the Conflicting Expectations of Media Leaders, Leadership (journal), with M. Painter-Morland, 2017. * The Leader as Chief Truth Officer,

, with J. P. Bouilloud and G. Mercier, 2017. * Reconceptualizing CSR in the Media Industry as Relational Accountability,

, with M. Painter-Morland, 2016. * There are no Codes, Only Interpretations. Practical Wisdom and Hermeneutics in Monastic Organizations,

, with G. Mercier, 2016. * The dynamics of Organizational Identity from a Ricoeurian Perspective, Journal for Communication and Culture, 2015. * The Aesthetics of Leadership: Beau Geste as Critical Behaviour,

, with J. P. Bouilloud, 2015. * Gender and Visionary Leading: rethinking "Vision" with Bergson, Deleuze and Guattari,

Organization An organization or organisation (Commonwealth English; see spelling differences), is an entity—such as a company, an institution, or an association—comprising one or more people and having a particular purpose. The word is derived f ...

, with M. Painter-Morland, 2014. * Power, Profits, and Practical Wisdom: Ricoeur's perspectives on the Possibility of an Ethics in Institutions, Business and Professional Ethics Journal, 2012. * The Care-of-Self Ethic with Continual Reference to Socrates: Towards Ethical Self-Management, Business Ethics: A European Review, 2012. * Turkish auteur cinema and European identity: Economic influences on aesthetic issues, Journal of European Popular Culture, with J. Maixent, 2012. * Corporate Culture versus Organizational Identity: Implications for Media Management, Journal of Media Business Studies, 2011. * In Search of Individual Responsibility: The Dark Side of Organizations in the Light of Jansenist Ethics,

, 2011. * Indirect Communication and Business Ethics: Kierkegaardian Perspectives, Business and Professional Ethics Journal, 2011.

External links

* Biographical information, ESCP website. * "Wittgenstein and the Practical Turn in Business Ethics", Electronic Journal of Business Ethics and Organizational Studies, 16(1), pp 48–56.http://ejbo.jyu.fi/pdf/ejbo_vol16_no1_pages_48-54.pdf

References

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