The Aesthetic Turn in Management

Content

• Introduction
• Part I The Aesthetic Turn: Arts and Appreciation in Organization and Management: Aesthetic understanding of organizational life, Antonio Strati
• Finding form: looking at the field of organizational aesthetics, Steven S. Taylor and Hans Hansen
• Strategy retold: toward a narrative view of strategic discourse, David Barry and Michael Elmes
• Organizational kitsch, Stephen Linstead
• The labour of aesthetics and the aesthetics of organization, Anne Witz, Chris Warhurst and Dennis Nickson. Part II Following and Framing Management Fashion: Rhetoric and myth in management fashion, Alfred Kieser
• A fantasy theme analysis of Peter Senge's learning organization, Bradley G. Jackson
• Haute couture and prt-a-porter: the popular press and the diffusion of management practices, Carmelo Mazza and Jos Luis Alvarez
• Management fashion as image-spectacle: the production of best-selling management books, Timothy Clark and David Greatbatch. Part III From Fashion to Fiction: Narrative and Storytelling Approaches: The storytelling organization: a study of performance in an office-supply firm, David M. Boje
• Organizational story and storytelling: a critical review, Mary E. Boyce
• A four times told tale: combining narrative and scientific knowledge in organization studies, Barbara Czarniawska
• Narratives of organizational identity and identification: a case study of hegemony and resistance, Michael Humphreys and Andrew D. Brown. Part IV The Theatre and Performance of Management: Management as a performing art, Iain L. Mangham
• The cultural performance of control, Rolland Munro
• Playing the part: reflections on aspects of mere performance in the customer-client relationship, Heather Hpfl
• From dramaturgy to theatre as technology: the case of corporate theatre, Timothy Clark and Iain Mangham
• Spectacular metaphors: from theatre to cinema, Thomasz Wood Jr. Part V Management Improvisation: Jazz and Beyond: Improvisation as a mindset for organizational analysis, Karl E. Weick
• Creativity and improvisation in jazz and organizations: implications for organizational learning, Frank J. Barrett
• Towards a theory of organizational improvisation: looking beyond the jazz metaphor, Ken Kamoche, Miguel Pina e Cunha and Joo Vieira da Cunha
• The complexity of improvisation and the improvisation of complexity: social science, art and creativity, Alfonso Montuori. Part VI Crafting Management and Management Studies: Crafting strategy, Henry Mintzberg
• Crafting organization, Julie Wolfram Cox and Stella Minahan
• Organization, decoration, Julie Wolfram Cox and Stella Minahan
• Essai: on paragrammatic uses of organizational theory a provocation, Yiannis Gabriel
• Name index.