This paper analyses the advent of fascism as a management philosophy, and its growing influence in the philosophical underpinnings of contemporary business practice. While many contemporary management practices identified as fascist in nature have existed and been analysed for considerable time the paper delineates the threshold of characterizing the thought and practice of fascist management by the criterion of conformity with enlightenment principles. On this basis, some dominant schools of thought in contemporary management are analysed and their fascist nature is identified.

– Matten, D. (2025). Fascism as a management philosophy (SSRN Paper No. 5203477). Social Science Research Network. https://doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.5203477