The Aesthetic Turn in Management

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Acknowledgements
Introduction
PART I THE AESTHETIC TURN: ARTS AND APPRECIATION IN ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT
	1 Aesthetic Understanding of Organizational Life
	2 Finding Form: Looking at the Field of Organizational Aesthetics
	3 Strategy Retold: Toward a Narrative View of Strategic Discourse
	4 Organizational Kitsch
	5 The Labour of Aesthetics and the Aesthetics of Organization
PART II FOLLOWING AND FRAMING MANAGEMENT FASHION
	6 Rhetoric and Myth in Management Fashion
	7 A Fantasy Theme Analysis of Peter Senge’s Learning Organization
	8 Haute Couture and Prêt-à-Porter: The Popular Press and the Diffusion of Management Practices
	9 Management Fashion as Image-Spectacle: The Production of Best-Selling Management Books
PART III FROM FASHION TO FICTION: NARRATIVE AND STORYTELLING APPROACHES
	10 The Storytelling Organization: A Study of Story Performance in an Office-Supply Firm
	11 Organizational Story and Storytelling: A Critical Review
	12 A Four Times Told Tale: Combining Narrative and Scientific Knowledge in Organization Studies
	13 Narratives of Organizational Identity and Identification: A Case Study of Hegemony and Resistance
PART IV THE THEATRE AND PERFORMANCE OF MANAGEMENT
	14 Managing as a Performing Art
	15 The Cultural Performance of Control
	16 Playing the Part: Reflections on Aspects of Mere Performance in the Customer-Client Relationship
	17 From Dramaturgy to Theatre as Technology: The Case of Corporate Theatre
	18 Spectacular Metaphors: From Theatre to Cinema
PART V MANAGEMENT IMPROVISATION: JAZZ AND BEYOND
	19 Improvisation as a Mindset for Organizational Analysis
	20 Creativity and Improvisation in Jazz and Organizations: Implications for Organizational Learning
	21 Towards a Theory of Organizational Improvisation: Looking Beyond the Jazz Metaphor
	22 The Complexity of Improvisation and the Improvisation of Complexity: Social Science, Art and Creativity
PART VI CRAFTING MANAGEMENT AND MANAGEMENT STUDIES
	23 Crafting Strategy
	24 Crafting Organization
	25 Organization, Decoration
	26 Essai: On Paragrammatic Uses of Organizational Theory - A Provocation
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