Methodological problems associated with investigations of the aesthetic are also highlighted so the reader can identify and understand the importance of recent ideas on vision, perspective and periphery for learning in organizations. Through the contributions of leading international theorists, organizational aesthetics is defined in greater historical and theoretical depth, with a broad conceptual and practical range which academics will find invaluable.
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The Aesthetics of Organization
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The Aesthetics of Organization
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Organizational aesthetics, both as a body of theory and a method of inquiry, is a rapidly expanding area of the organizational sciences. The Aesthetics of Organization accessibly draws key contributions delineating the emerging parameters of the field. It explains the significance of concepts devised by postmodern thinkers, through which emerge meaning and order in organizations.
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Publisher
SAGE Publications LtdYear
2000Print ISBN
9780761953234
9780761953227
Edition
1eBook ISBN
9780857021953
Table of contents
- Cover
- Table of Contents
- Introduction
- Part I: Aesthetic Theory
- 1 - The Aesthetic Approach in Organization Studies
- 2 - The Art Management of Aesthetic Organizing
- Part II: Aesthetic Processes
- 3 - Ashes and Madness: The Play of Negativity and the Poetics of Organization
- 4 - The Aesthetics of Reticence: Collections and Recollections
- Part III: Aesthetics and Modes of Analysis
- 5 - 'Cutting a Show': Grounded Aesthetics and Entertainment Organizations
- 6 - Routine Pleasures: The Aesthetics of the Mundane
- Part IV: Crafting an Aesthetic
- 7 - Observer Versus Audience
- 8 - An-Aesthetics
- Part V: Aesthetics, Ethics and Identity
- 9 - 'Suaviter in modo, fortiter in re': Appearance, Reality and the Early Jesuits
- 10 - Resurfacing an Aesthetics of Existence as an Alternative to Business Ethics
- Part VI: Radical Aesthetics and Change
- 11 - Cultivating an Aesthetic of Unfolding: Jazz Improvisation as a Self-organizing System
- 12 - The Rhythm of the Saints: Cultural Resistance, Popular Music and Collectivist Organization in Salvador, Bahia in Brazil
- Name Index
- Subject Index
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