The Aesthetic Turn in Management

Table of contents

1. Cover
2. Half Title
3. Title
4. Copyright
5. Contents
6. Acknowledgements
7. Introduction
8. PART I THE AESTHETIC TURN: ARTS AND APPRECIATION IN ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT
   1. 1 Aesthetic Understanding of Organizational Life
   2. 2 Finding Form: Looking at the Field of Organizational Aesthetics
   3. 3 Strategy Retold: Toward a Narrative View of Strategic Discourse
   4. 4 Organizational Kitsch
   5. 5 The Labour of Aesthetics and the Aesthetics of Organization
9. PART II FOLLOWING AND FRAMING MANAGEMENT FASHION
   1. 6 Rhetoric and Myth in Management Fashion
   2. 7 A Fantasy Theme Analysis of Peter Senge’s Learning Organization
   3. 8 Haute Couture and Prêt-à-Porter: The Popular Press and the Diffusion of Management Practices
   4. 9 Management Fashion as Image-Spectacle: The Production of Best-Selling Management Books
10. PART III FROM FASHION TO FICTION: NARRATIVE AND STORYTELLING APPROACHES
    1. 10 The Storytelling Organization: A Study of Story Performance in an Office-Supply Firm
    2. 11 Organizational Story and Storytelling: A Critical Review
    3. 12 A Four Times Told Tale: Combining Narrative and Scientific Knowledge in Organization Studies
    4. 13 Narratives of Organizational Identity and Identification: A Case Study of Hegemony and Resistance
11. PART IV THE THEATRE AND PERFORMANCE OF MANAGEMENT
    1. 14 Managing as a Performing Art
    2. 15 The Cultural Performance of Control
    3. 16 Playing the Part: Reflections on Aspects of Mere Performance in the Customer–Client Relationship
    4. 17 From Dramaturgy to Theatre as Technology: The Case of Corporate Theatre
    5. 18 Spectacular Metaphors: From Theatre to Cinema
12. PART V MANAGEMENT IMPROVISATION: JAZZ AND BEYOND
    1. 19 Improvisation as a Mindset for Organizational Analysis
    2. 20 Creativity and Improvisation in Jazz and Organizations: Implications for Organizational Learning
    3. 21 Towards a Theory of Organizational Improvisation: Looking Beyond the Jazz Metaphor
    4. 22 The Complexity of Improvisation and the Improvisation of Complexity: Social Science, Art and Creativity
13. PART VI CRAFTING MANAGEMENT AND MANAGEMENT STUDIES
    1. 23 Crafting Strategy
    2. 24 Crafting Organization
    3. 25 Organization, Decoration
    4. 26 Essai: On Paragrammatic Uses of Organizational Theory – A Provocation
14. Name Index