Ba: Introducing Processual Spatial Thinking into the Theory of the Firm and Management

Graupe, Silja; Nonaka, Ikujiro

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“…Ba too is ineffable and integral, in much the same way as a ‘living social topos’ (Graupe and Nonaka, 2010: p. 22). Like the ground on which a tribe stands, Ba is a presence: it has meaning and substance.…”

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“…The Japanese Kanji for Ba is 場. Kanji is a symbolic language, and meanings are not fixed and are better described than defined (Graupe and Nonaka, 2010). Ideograms symbolise the idea of a thing and require us to understand an essence, not an exactness.…”

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“…In Ba, self and other co-emerge (Von Krogh et al, 2013) with multiple participants mutually forging each other – individual self is bound to the collective self. It is possible, and natural in Ba, to transcend ideas of subject and object to become pure unselfconscious experiencing (Graupe and Nonaka, 2010). Ba and its notion of place guide us to look across and around the group not simply between individuals inter-subjectively.…”

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Place – The final frontier: Exploring the outer reaches of collaborative agency using the Japanese concept of Ba

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Scholars within the field of Leadership-as-Practice (LAP) address the way that individuals ‘transcend their own immediate embeddedness’ to achieve volitional coherence known as collaborative agency. The process of collaborative agency is described as inseparable from LAP, yet it remains a nascent field of enquiry requiring additional empirical research. This article presents an investigation of collaborative agency through an abductive case study using video ethnography and interviews. To interpret our results, we turn to the Japanese ideogram for ‘place’, known as ‘Ba’. Rather than a physical reality, Ba is considered an existential space in which leadership groups weave together to create and ripen collaborative agency. Ba guides us to look across and around a group and its socio-material practice. We find that collaborative agency is trans-subjective in nature and sits on a spectrum on which we identify the outer reaches, from one end where Ba is woven through to the other end, called Collapse. We suggest that the place of leadership is within the warp and weft of collaborative agency, including but not limited to a special place woven in Ba where collaborative agency is high and where the group reports they are able to transcend their individualism.

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For some time, both practitioners and scholars have been arguing that coaching should play a stronger and more central role to achieve successful business outcomes. However, when looking to inspire leaders to gain competence in the skills of coaching, ill-founded assumptions are made. Including, but not limited to, the very definition of leadership and the very nature of coaching when embedded into leadership (termed in this chapter, leaders-who-coach). The research described in this chapter looks into these practices to proffer 15 dimensions of leaders-who-coach, drawing on multiple sources which seek to ameliorate the shortfalls of previous research in this area. Finally, the chapter includes a discussion on the less than perfect nature of the approach taken due to the philosophical misalignments between the described realities of leadership and coaching and the ontological and epistemological challenges of research. The primary aim of this chapter is to respond to the growing organizational calls for more leaders to have the skills of coaching.

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Ba: Introducing Processual Spatial Thinking into the Theory of the Firm and Management

Cited by 2 publications

References 19 publications

Place – The final frontier: Exploring the outer reaches of collaborative agency using the Japanese concept of Ba

Place – The final frontier: Exploring the outer reaches of collaborative agency using the Japanese concept of Ba

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