My doctoral research lies at the intersection of management and organization studies, philosophy of management, and the philosophy of emotions. Using police organizations as an empirical context, I examine how managers exercise judgment when confronted with legitimate organizational demands that become difficult to reconcile, such as performance and well-being, control and autonomy, standardization and adaptation, or operational continuity and recovery.
Research on organizational tensions and paradoxes has extensively examined the coexistence of competing yet interdependent demands and the ways organizations respond to them. My research focu…
My doctoral research lies at the intersection of management and organization studies, philosophy of management, and the philosophy of emotions. Using police organizations as an empirical context, I examine how managers exercise judgment when confronted with legitimate organizational demands that become difficult to reconcile, such as performance and well-being, control and autonomy, standardization and adaptation, or operational continuity and recovery.
Research on organizational tensions and paradoxes has extensively examined the coexistence of competing yet interdependent demands and the ways organizations respond to them. My research focuses more specifically on the managerial experience of situations in which these tensions become practically consequential and require action. The central question is how managers come to understand what is at stake and determine how to respond when important considerations pull in different directions and no solution can fully satisfy them all.
Within this process, I investigate the evaluative and epistemic role of emotions. Drawing on contemporary philosophy of emotions, I approach emotional experience not merely as a subjective reaction, but as a way in which values, responsibilities, vulnerabilities, and consequences can become salient. Emotions may therefore contribute to managerial judgment by helping disclose what matters in a particular situation.
Drawing on the Aristotelian concept of phronesis, or practical wisdom, I examine managerial judgment as a situated process of interpretation, deliberation, and action under conditions of ambiguity and competing demands. This perspective conceives management not simply as decision-making or the application of general principles, but as a practical activity requiring sensitivity to context and the capacity to determine an appropriate course of action when legitimate considerations cannot be fully reconciled.
My research seeks to contribute to management and organization studies by illuminating the experiential and judgmental dimensions of organizational tensions, while contributing to philosophy of management through an account of management as a practical and morally significant activity. It also explores how the philosophy of emotions can enrich our understanding of managerial practice and practical wisdom. More broadly, the project considers the implications of sustained exposure to difficult organizational tensions for managerial health and for the development of healthier and more responsible organizations.
