Management of a maximum security complex - Déris I M de Oliveira Caitano

In this book we report the experience of prison guards in a maximum security prison complex. We analyze elements that characterize a framework of evidence of phronesis, described in Aristotelian philosophy as the virtue of practical order that presupposes deliberation in critical situations, where agents' rationality is limited by very specific contexts of action. The notion of phronesis illuminates new perspectives for understanding rationality in contingent circumstances of organizational praxis...