Organizational Creativity, Play and Entrepreneurship: Introduction and Framing

Hjorth, Daniel; Strati, Antonio; Dodd, Sarah Drakopoulou; Weik, Elke

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“…Consistent with the experienced indeterminacy of the future, debates on digital transformation are partly interwoven with ‘new forms of organizing’ (Schreyögg & Sydow, 2010) as potentially digital alternatives to more formal, bureaucratic and planning-based ways of engaging with the future. Partly under the label ‘future of work’ (Gratton, 2014), these forms of organizing position entrepreneurship and creativity at the heart of ‘the new normal [of] organizational life’ (Hjorth, Strati, Drakopoulou Dodd, & Weik, 2018, p. 165). Accordingly, new forms of organizing promise to apply less conventional and, perhaps, more artistic and artisan practices of producing and enacting the future, such as improvisation (Weick, 1998), craft work (Bell & Vachhani, 2019), play (Hjorth, 2005) and theatrical performances (Schreyögg & Höpfl, 2004), all of which deserve greater attention in organization studies.…”

Section: The Future As a Problem In Organizations: Toward An Understamentioning

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Future and Organization Studies: On the rediscovery of a problematic temporal category in organizations

Wenzel

Krämer

Koch³

et al. 2020

Organization Studies

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Even though organizational activities have always been future-oriented, actors’ fascination with the future is not a universal phenomenon of organizational life. Human experience of the future is a rather young product of modernity, in which actors discovered the indeterminacy of the future, as well as their abilities to ‘make’ and, in part, even control and de-problematize it through ever-more sophisticated planning practices. In this essay, we argue that actors have recently ‘rediscovered’ the future as a problematic, open-ended category in organizational life, one that they cannot delineate through planning practices alone. This, we suggest, has been produced through a pluralization of what we refer to as ‘future-making practices’, a set of practices through which actors produce and enact the future. Based on illustrations of the experienced problematic open-endedness of the future in prevalent discourses such as climate change, digital transformation and post-truth politics, we invite scholars to explore future-making practices as an important but under-appreciated organizational phenomenon.

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Section: The Future As a Problem In Organizations: Toward An Understamentioning

confidence: 99%

Future and Organization Studies: On the rediscovery of a problematic temporal category in organizations

Wenzel

Krämer

Koch³

et al. 2020

Organization Studies

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“…The situated "managing responsibly" is therefore grounded in a post-humanist theorization on practice (Braidotti, 2013;Diprose, 2009;Gherardi, 2017, Strati, 2019 that enhances the aesthetic dimension of the organizational life by focusing on the aesthetic materiality of the situated organizational experiences (Gherardi & Strati, 2012), on embodied ethics in organizational life (Pullen & Rhodes, 2014) and aesthetics of virtue (Hancock, 2008), and on organizational creativity, play and entrepreneurship (Hjorth et al, 2018).…”

Section: Beauty Of Responsible Management: the Lens And Methodology Omentioning

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Research Handbook of Responsible Management

Laasch¹,

Jamali²,

Freeman³

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Therefore, even in dealing, as in this chapter, with the ethics applied to organizational life and, specifically, to responsible management, fundamental notions of moral philosophy such as the "good" remain at the center of the arguments. The notion of good constitutes the central notion of moral philosophy, point out Monique Canto-Sperber and Ruwen Ogien (2004; Italian trans. 2006: 21-22): the good "is object of a movement" and makes it possible to conceive morality "as a form of the desirable" and

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“…First, recent organizational research (De Cock et al, 2013; Komporozos-Athanasiou and Fotaki, 2015: 335) has pointed out that today we are facing a ‘crisis of imagination’ in the contexts of organization, economy and society, and that there is need to explore imaginative modes of participating in organizations. While there has been a broad paradigmatic shift towards ‘creativity’ and ‘innovation’ in organization and management studies, this shift has been criticized for its instrumental and often unpolitical nature (Hjorth et al, 2018). The notion of imagination seems, in this regard, to provide a remedy.…”

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Learning atmospheres: Re-imagining management education through the dérive

Michels

Hindley

Knowles

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Management Learning

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This article responds to the recent calls for rethinking management education, particularly to those that emphasize space, affect and atmosphere, and makes the case for the practice of dérive as a way of infusing management education with experiential, experimental and reflexive learning processes. The authors draw on ideas and practices of the art movement Situationist International who proposed the dérive, informed by the concept of psychogeography as a way of exploring and reimagining the atmospheres of everyday life. The paper is illustrated by the authors’ teaching experiences in this area (or space as one might say). The authors argue that the dérive in management education may foster future managers’ imaginative skills and inspire an imaginative self-reflection of the business school and its spatial organization. The paper concludes that in re-enacting their experience of educational space, participants may learn about, reflect on, and develop their affective capacities for becoming part of organizational processes, both as students of the business school and as future managers.

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Organizational Creativity, Play and Entrepreneurship: Introduction and Framing

Cited by 50 publications

References 69 publications

Future and Organization Studies: On the rediscovery of a problematic temporal category in organizations

Future and Organization Studies: On the rediscovery of a problematic temporal category in organizations

Research Handbook of Responsible Management

Learning atmospheres: Re-imagining management education through the dérive

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