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"Barry and Hansen have gathered an impressive array of contributors to speculate where the management and organization field might be headed. The Handbook offers refreshing and proactive insights that confront our assumptions about organizations and challenge us to expand our thinking and inquiry. It it must reading for anyone who seeks to understand how we look at, live in, and act on organizations."—Thomas G. Cummings, Marshall School of Business, University of Southern CaliforniaTen years ago critical theory and postmodernism were considered new and emerging theories in Business and Management. What will be the next new important theories to shape the field? In one edited volume, David Barry and Hans Hansen have commissioned new chapters that will allow readers to stay one step ahead of the latest thinking. Contributors draw on research and practice to introduce ideas that are considered 'fringe' and controversial today, but may be key theoretical contributions tomorrow. Each chapter sets these ideas in their historical context, lays out the key theoretical positions taken by each new approach and makes it clear why these approaches are different to more mainstream concepts. Throughout contributors refer to existing studies that show how these developing themes will change the Business and Management arena.Researchers, teachers and advanced students who are interested in the future of Business and Management scholarship will want to read this Handbook.
Aesthetic Play as an Organizing Principle
Aesthetic Play as an Organizing Principle
Prelude
Matt:
All right then, how do westart talking about aesthetic play as an organizing principle?
Pierre:
May be it seems bizarre, but I think we should start with Immanuel Kant.
Matt:
But he's old and forgotten, not new and emerging.
Pierre:
Well then, we'd better discuss who the guy is, and why he matters for organization theory today.
Matt:
OK, then I'd start by saying that he was the most important philosopher in the Enlightenment, and that he actually laid the groundwork for what we call aesthetic theory today by linking it closely with ethics.
Pierre:
And even though few people actually drag themselves through his rather dry and boring texts, it's worth our time to see how he built this bridge. Let me read ...
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