The Philosophy of Hybridity in Management: Phronesis, Risk, and Agile Governance in a Post‑Digital World
Oleksiy Kiykov
Dragomanov Ukrainian State UniversityAbstract
This article develops a philosophy of hybrid management as a virtue-rooted practice for acting wisely under uncertainty. Grounded in Aristotelian practical wisdom (phronesis), it integrates agile iteration, prudent risk governance, values-oriented inquiry, emotional education, and phenomenology-informed knowledge creation into a single architecture of managerial reasoning. The paper proposes an organizational „constitution” built on five commitments–value clarity, dialogical sense-making, prudent experimentation, capability cultivation, and ethical guardrails – showing how hybridity reconciles rules and improvisation without lapsing into technocracy or relativism. Drawing examples from public administration, higher education, and business, it argues that hybrid governance enhances resilience, legitimacy, and ethicalcoherence while preserving innovation. The account reframes decision quality as a social achievement enabled by collective phronesis and institutional design. It positions
uncertainty as a field for character formation and purpose clarification, not a defect to be engineered away. The result is a portable framework for organizations seeking disciplined flexibility in post-digital conditions.
Keywords:
hybridity, practical wisdom (phronesis), prudent risk governance, knowledge creation, ethical guardrailsReferences
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