This paper proposes the use of Phronesis as an alternate research paradigm to inform the design of information systems that can enhance the transparency and accountability of megaprojects. We illustrate the proposed approach in the context of the Nicaragua Canal Project, a contemporary Mega-Project for which the research questions addressed by the three Aristotean intellectual virtues: episteme...

Modern medicine faces fundamental challenges that various approaches to the philosophy of medicine have tried to address. One of these approaches is based on the ancient concept of phronesis. This paper investigates whether this concept can be used as a moral basis for the challenges facing modern medicine and, in particular, analyses phronesis as it is applied in the works of Pellegrino and Th...

This paper develops Aristotle’s idea of phronesis, or practical wisdom, as a framework to access, represent and communicate the complexity of successful instructional leadership practice in schools. The design and use of artifacts, the tools leaders develop and implement in their practice, provide a window into the patterns of problem-setting and problem-solving that guide the expression of phr...

In this dynamic global environment only those companies survive who know the power of knowledge and consistently create new knowledge. Such knowledge creating firms utilize dynamic dimensions of human capital. Human capital is the most important resource for a firm and has ability to create new knowledge in a changing environment. Various dimensions of human capital transcend themselves through...

Education is a method of sharing social consciousness and reconstruction. There an existential crisis in business education driven by the conflict between financial objectives. A paradigm shift requires that leaders be taught how to incorporate new competencies. Phronesis (practical wisdom), individual collective, essential competence addressed education. It leads companies continuous innovatio...

The term Responsible Research and Innovation has recently gained currency, as it has been designated to be a key-term in the European research framework Horizon 2020. At the level of European research policy, Responsible Research and Innovation can be viewed as an attempt to reach a broader vision of research and innovation as a public good. The current academic debate may be fairly enriched by...

Phronesis or practical wisdom – Aristotle’s intellectual meta-virtue of discernment, deliberation, and arbitration is undergoing a revival. Yet phronesis enthusiasts have recently been experiencing blowback both from philosophers psychologists who think that has given an inflated role in recent theorizing the functions it meant to perform can more readily parsimoniously be accorded less complex...