This article presents a comprehensive hermeneutic and theological interpretation of the management concepts developed by Professor Marcin Staniewski, one of the leading representatives of the humanistic school of management in Central Europe. The study integrates an epistemological, anthropological, and ethical analysis of his work, showing how management, knowledge, and entrepreneurship constitute a single field of meaning in which cognition, morality, and action are inseparable.
In the first part, the epistemological foundations of Staniewski’s theory of knowledge management are examined. Knowledge is interpreted not as an objective resource, but as a relational and moral process — an event of understanding within a community of interpretation. This perspective is rooted in the hermeneutics of Gadamer and Ricoeur, and in the epistemology of Nonaka and Takeuchi, while expanding them with an ethical dimension.
The second part explores the anthropology of entrepreneurship, in which human creativity and hope become moral acts of self-realisation and participation in the common good. Entrepreneurial success, in this sense, is not an external achievement, but a manifestation of personal maturity and ethical responsibility.
The final part elaborates Staniewski’s model of sustainable and ethical intelligence in organisations, interpreting sustainability as a spiritual and moral transformation (metanoia) of institutions. Management is thus understood as a form of responsible co-creation of reality — a “hermeneutics of the common good” integrating economic rationality, ethical wisdom, and theological anthropology.
The study concludes that Staniewski’s integral hermeneutics of management offers a new synthesis between organisation theory, ethics, and theology, renewing the classical idea of phronesis — practical wisdom — as the foundation of both knowledge and leadership.
Keywords: Marcin Staniewski; hermeneutics of management; knowledge management; entrepreneurship; ethics; sustainable development; theological anthropology; organisational wisdom; ethical intelligence; humanistic management
