The ethos of management as an academic science

Ethos (from the Greek word meaning ‘order’) is the lifestyle of a given community, the general orientation of its culture, the hierarchy of values adopted by the community that are directly formulated or deduced based on human behaviour. Numerous authors point to the symptoms of a crisis in science, paradoxically resulting from fast social changes caused to a large extent by scientific development. Consequence of restoring confidence in public, civil and social institutions such as universities, political parties and social organisations should be an increase in civic engagement. Perhaps, the key in this case is orientation towards an increase in social capital and civic engagement, which will lead to the development of ‘network communities’ based on sustainable development and restoring of management academic ethos.