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The Future of Luxury Brands
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The Future of Luxury Brands

by Annamma Joy
February 2022
Intermediate to advanced
311 pages
11h 43m
English
De Gruyter
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Part 2: The Art World

Chapter 3 Organizational Aesthetics as Exploring the Spiritual of the Social

Learning from Kandinsky & Co

Pierre Guillet De Monthoux

A Gateway to Philosophy

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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