The Aesthetics of Organization [Paperback]

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.

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 greaterOrganizational 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.

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 greaterPART ONE: AESTHETIC THEORY
The Aesthetic Approach in Organization Studies - Antonio Strati
The Art Management of Aesthetic Organizing - Pierre Guillet de Monthoux
PART TWO: AESTHETIC PROCESSES
Ashes and Madness - Stephen Linstead
The Play of Negativity and the Poetics of Organization
The Aesthetics of Reticence - Heather H[um]opfl
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