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The Aesthetics of Organization

First Edition

Edited by:

Stephen Linstead - University of York, UK
Heather Joy Höpfl - University of Essex, UK, Visiting Professor, Academy of Entrepreneurship, Warsaw, Poland

Other Titles in:
Organizational Behaviour (General) | Organizational Theory

April 2000 | 280 pages | SAGE Publications Ltd

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 greater historical and theoretical depth, with a broad conceptual and practical range which academics will find invaluable.

PART ONE: AESTHETIC THEORY

Antonio Strati

The Aesthetic Approach in Organization Studies

Pierre Guillet de Monthoux

The Art Management of Aesthetic Organizing

PART TWO: AESTHETIC PROCESSES

Stephen Linstead

Ashes and Madness

The Play of Negativity and the Poetics of Organization

Heather H[um]opfl

The Aesthetics of Reticence

Collections and Recollections