Art and Aesthetics at Work

Front Matter....Pages i-xvi
Front Matter....Pages 1-1
Art and Aesthetics as a Way of Knowing Organization: Introduction....Pages 3-6
Art as a Form of Knowledge: The Implications for Critical Management....Pages 7-37
Looking into/out of Organizations through the Rear Window: Voyeurism and Exhibitionism in Organization Studies (delete as appropriate)....Pages 38-50
Reconciling Aesthetics and Justice in Organization Studies....Pages 51-64
Front Matter....Pages 65-65
Work as an Aesthetically Ordered Activity: Introduction....Pages 67-69
We’re All Partying Here: Target and Games, or Targets as Games in Call Centre Management....Pages 70-92
The Power of Organizational Song: An Organizational Discourse and Aesthetic Expression of Organizational Culture....Pages 93-114
On the Manager’s Body as an Aesthetics of Control....Pages 115-132
Front Matter....Pages 133-133
Critical Engagements with Aesthetics at Work: Introduction....Pages 135-137
The Barren Landscape: Reading US Corporate Architecture....Pages 138-154
An-Aesthetics and Architecture....Pages 155-173
Aestheticizing the World of Organization – Creating Beautiful Untrue Things....Pages 174-194
Back Matter....Pages 195-216