February 2022
Intermediate to advanced
311 pages
11h 43m
English
Learning from Kandinsky & Co
What can be the role of beauty in organizational matters? By introducing some works trying to tackle this question, this chapter proposes that this question opens up consideration of philosophical and spiritual dimensions of organizing that are left out by narrow rationalist and functionalist considerations dominating in social sciences applied to management. Adam Smith (1733–1790) realized that aesthetics played an important role in politics not because political strategies were made beautiful or designed to please. When we saw beauty in the politics ...
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