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In chapter one it was argued that a particular ontological view of the manager and the manager’s role in the enterprise leads to a particular interpretation of the ‘what’ and ‘why’ of the management and information in the organization. The purpose of this chapter is to explore the ontological position of the involved manager.
Dasein, in its familiarity with significance, is the ontical condition for the possibility of discovering entities which are encountered in a world with involvement (readyness-to-hand) as their kind of Being, and which can thus make themselves known as they are in themselves.
Martin Heidegger in Being and Time
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Introna, L.D. (1997). The manager: involved in-the-world. In: Management, Information and Power. Information Systems Series. Palgrave, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-14549-2_2
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