Organizational Aesthetics: Caught Between Identity Regulation and Culture Jamming

Wasserman, Varda; Frenkel, Michal

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“…Aesthetics is more than beautifying the workplace (Wasserman & Frenkel, 2011), and we need to consider the lived experiences of being in the space and the emotions elicited by interaction with the space. In contrast to prior literature on institutional maintenance that foregrounded cognitive processes, we highlight the role of emotional reactions to spaces, and the role these reactions play in institutional survival.…”

Section: The Role Of Enchantment In Maintaining Institutionsmentioning

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“Devils May Sit Here:” The Role of Enchantment in Institutional Maintenance

Siebert

Wilson

Hamilton³

2017

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“Devils May Sit Here:” The Role of Enchantment in Institutional Maintenance

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2017

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“…'let's get closer')  Atmospheric aspects of space perceived through multiple registers of sensation (e.g. soundscape, olfactory quality of space) and their associated affective consequences (Beyes & Steyaert, 2012;Elden, 2004;Pile, 2010;Simonsen, 2007;Sloterdijk, 1998;Thrift, 2004;Wasserman & Frenkel, 2011) …”

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The Video Production of Space

Mengis

Nicolini

Gorli

2016

Organizational Research Methods

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This paper examines how video recording practices effect the ways in which an organizational phenomenon -in our case organizational space -becomes available for analysis and understanding. Building on a performative and praxeological approach, we argue that the practical and material ways of conducting video-based research have a performative effect on the object of inquiry and do not simply record it. Focusing in particular on configurations of camera angle and movement -forming what we call the Panoramic View, the American-objective View, the Roving Point-of-view and the Infra-subjective View -we find that these apparatuses privilege different spatial understandings both by orienting our gaze towards different analytical elements and by qualifying these elements in different ways. Our findings advance the methodological reflections on video-based research by emphasizing that while video has a number of general affordances, the research practices with which we use it matter and have an impact both on the analytical process and the researcher's findings. 3Space matters in our efforts of organizing, both as a symbolic and aesthetic carrier of meaning (Hatch, 1990;Van Marrewijk, 2009) and through its material affordances (Dale & Burrell, 2008;de Vaujany & Mitev, 2013). Spatiality sustains identity making processes (Dale & Burrell, 2008;Rosen, 1990), concurs to establish and reinforce power differentials (Dale & Burrell, 2008), and specific spatial arrangements contribute to enhance or inhibit (interdisciplinary) interaction (Hatch, 1990;Iedema, Long, & Carroll, 2010), learning (Beyes & Michels, 2011), creativity (Hillier, 1996), or even safety (Hor, Iedema, & Manias, 2014).While the growing attention to space in organizational studies (for a review, see: Taylor & Spicer, 2007) may be fuelled by practical managerial concerns such as the need for flexible and mobile work arrangements or the blending of home and workspaces (Richardson & McKenna, 2014), it is also informed by the recent material turn in organization studies (de Vaujany & Mitev, 2013;Orlikowski & Scott, 2011). From the latter we learn that space is more than a stable, neutral, physical container (Kornberger & Clegg, 2004) "waiting to be filled" with organizational activities, processes, and artefacts independent from it (Lefebvre, 1991, p. 170).Instead, organizational scholars are coming to realize that spatiality and organizing are tightly entangled (Barad, 2001) as space is both "a social product and a generative force" of practices of organizing (Beyes & Steyaert, 2012, p. 48). Into the production of space go complex processes not only of conceiving, but also of inhabiting and practicing space (Lefebvre, 1991).Flexworkers, for example, have not simply spaces of work or of home, but engage -through their daily practices -in an "ongoing reordering" of these spaces in view of their specific needs (Richardson & McKenna, 2014, p. 734). We are thus asked to reconceptualise space as "spacing" and to account for the practiced, processual, rhythmic, ...

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“…Alguns recentes estudos focalizando a estética nas organizações relacionam-se com as questões da criação de estratégia (FILIPPI; TANNERY, 2009); das pessoas e do estilo de trabalho nas organizações (STRATI, 2010); do controle das ações por meio dos artefatos (SORENSEN, 2010); sobre o papel da estética na regulação da identidade e no rompimento com padrões culturais (WASSERMAN;FRENKEL, 2011). Outros trabalhos abordaram a discussão do conhecimento estético como elemento de ligação entre a gestão e o design (STEPHENS; BOLAND, 2011); o debate da beleza que perpassa as práticas de gestão, tornando possível a investigação da estética organizacional (TAYLOR, 2012) e a relação entre a ética e a estética, por meio da análise da noção de beau geste no âmbito da liderança (BOUILLOUD;DESLANDES, 2013).…”

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A experiência estética nas práticas culinárias de uma organização gastronômica

2016

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A prática culinária é um ato cultural, no qual o mundo sensível torna-se locus do conhecimento por meio da experiência estética. Nesse contexto de discussão, este estudo teve como objetivo compreender como a experiência estética imbuída nas práticas culinárias influencia a organização gastronômica investigada. O delineamento metodológico seguido foi o proposto pela compreensão empática para compor o corpus empírico. Desse modo, os pesquisadores lançaram mão das técnicas da entrevista, da imersão e das anotações no diário de campo. Esse caminho revelou uma intensa experiência estética a partir da ativação das faculdades sensoriais do paladar, da visão, do olfato, da audição, do tato e de juízo estético dos atores participantes da vida organizacional. Com isso, delineou-se uma teia de categorias estéticas, entre elas o belo e o sublime, o kitsch, o feio, o grandioso e o grotesco, o pitoresco, o gracioso e o sagrado, propiciando diferentes interpretações sobre a construção desse social.Palavras-chave: Experiência estética. Prática culinária. Gastronomia.the Aesthetic experience in culinAry prActices of A gAstronomic orgAnizAtion Abstract T he culinary practice is a cultural act, in which the sensible world becomes locus of knowledge through aesthetic experience. In this context of discussion, this study aimed to understand how the aesthetic experience imbued in the culinary practices reflected in a gastronomic organization investigated. The methodological procedures were based on the principle of empathic understanding to compose the empirical corpus. Thus, the researchers resorted to the techniques of interview, immersion and notes in a field diary. This path revealed an intense aesthetic experience from activation of sensitive faculties of taste, vision, smell, hearing, touch and aesthetic judgment of the participating actors of organizational life. With this, was outlined a web of aesthetic categories among them the beautiful and the sublime, the kitsch, the ugly, the grand and the grotesque, the picturesque, the beautiful and the sacred, providing different interpretations of this social construction.

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Organizational Aesthetics: Caught Between Identity Regulation and Culture Jamming

Cited by 98 publications

References 27 publications

“Devils May Sit Here:” The Role of Enchantment in Institutional Maintenance

“Devils May Sit Here:” The Role of Enchantment in Institutional Maintenance

The Video Production of Space

A experiência estética nas práticas culinárias de uma organização gastronômica

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