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Drawing on various sources of continental philosophy his work highlights, beyond the efforts of the traditional stream of research in business ethics, the fact that ethics cannot be taught or understood as any other management "knowledge". The notion of protomanagement, as one can conceive it through discussion between Socrates and Ischomachus in Xenophon’s Economics is then reactivated. In the Ancient Greece, Protomanagement is first conceived as a political art inseparable from a form of virtue; the ancient "Mesnager" is that dedicated to mastering his/her self and care for the society as a whole.

From an interpretation of Blaise Pascal and Paul Ricoeur’s analysis of power, he builds new concepts around the question of managerial responsibility, rethinking the usual way of considering management-as-practice: practical wisdom, skeptical humanism or "double thought". He also shows that power cannot be separated from a dialectic of abilities and disabilities; this approach is at the root of several contributions about the strategic "vision" and gender issues using the works of Henri Bergson and Gilles Deleuze, developments about "blended leadership" in the media and about the beau geste as a critical behavior in organizations.

He received the EFMD-FNEGE Best Essay Award in 2015 and the first ESCP Research award in 2019.

At ESCP Europe, he is a member of the Law, Economics and Humanities department and he is best known as the academic director of the advanced Media Management program since 1997, a pioneer in Europe in the domain of media economics and media management created ten years before. With the help of a sponsoring committee made up of professionals such as Jean Drucker, Jacques Rigaud and Daniel Toscan du Plantier, the pedagogical content has focused on editorial transformations and economic changes in both new and traditional media.

Before entering academia, he has occupied various senior positions in the media and digital industries from 1994 until 2007, when he sold a news publishing company that he had run four years.

Ghislain Deslandes is a French philosopher born in Angers (France) on the 16th of August 1970.