Organization and Aesthetics
1st Edition
Published on 8. January 1999
224 pages
978-1-4462-6435-5 (ISBN)
Description
This book shows how aesthetic understanding of organizations can extend our knowledge and sharpen our insights into many processes that shape organizational action.
Organizational life is pervaded by aesthetics, yet conventional organizational analysis has been dominated by a `scientific', logico-rational tradition that ignores the aesthetic dimension.
The book highlights the role of emotion in organizations, the importance of symbol, the subjective influence of culture and the processes of learning and cognition. These phenomena are related to the aesthetic rather than to purify rational, demanding new modes of inquiry that allow us richer insight into the dynamics of organizational life.
Organization and Aesthetics provides a powerful new lens through which the daily, ever-chaning complexity of organizations can be better understood by students, researchers and mangers.
Organizational life is pervaded by aesthetics, yet conventional organizational analysis has been dominated by a `scientific', logico-rational tradition that ignores the aesthetic dimension.
The book highlights the role of emotion in organizations, the importance of symbol, the subjective influence of culture and the processes of learning and cognition. These phenomena are related to the aesthetic rather than to purify rational, demanding new modes of inquiry that allow us richer insight into the dynamics of organizational life.
Organization and Aesthetics provides a powerful new lens through which the daily, ever-chaning complexity of organizations can be better understood by students, researchers and mangers.
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Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Target group
Professional and scholarly
ISBN-13
978-1-4462-6435-5 (9781446264355)
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Antonio Strati
Organization and Aesthetics
Book
01/1999
1st Edition
SAGE Publications Inc
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Antonio Strati is the author of Organization and Aesthetics (Sage, 1999). He s a researcher and lecturer at the Faculty of Sociology at the University
of Trento, Italy, and he also lectures at the University of Siena.
of Trento, Italy, and he also lectures at the University of Siena.
Content
Organizational Aesthetics, Experience and Plausibility
Aesthetic Knowledge of Organizational Action
The Elusiveness of Organizational Aesthetics
The Beautiful in Organizational Life
Artefacts, Form and Aesthetic Categories
Conclusions
Aesthetic Knowledge of Organizational Action
The Elusiveness of Organizational Aesthetics
The Beautiful in Organizational Life
Artefacts, Form and Aesthetic Categories
Conclusions
