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Re-conceiving management education: Artful teaching and learning
(Massey University. Department of Management and International Business, 2007)
Artists derive inspiration from daily life. According to John Dewey, common experiences are transformed into works of art through a process of compression and expression. In this paper we adopt this frame, showing how it ...
Irony's architecture: Reflections on a photographic research project
(Massey University. Department of Management and International Business, 2007)
This paper presents a research approach based on irony, rather than certainty. Using Richard Rorty's conception of irony, we contend that much traditional research in management presents a final language which is implicit ...
The genesis of organisational aesthetics
(Massey University. Department of Management and International Business, 2006)
Organisational aesthetics is a burgeoning field with a growing community of scholars engaged in arts-based approaches to research. Recent developments in this field have their origins in the works of early Enlightenment ...
The music of organising: Exploring aesthetic ethnography
(Massey University. Department of Management and International Business, 2006)
Through a discussion of Ingarden’s phenomenology, this paper proposes an aesthetic ethnographic methodology. Aesthetic ethnography enables the researcher to view
organisations as if they are works of art. This involves ...
A tiger by the tail: The artistry of crisis management
(Massey University. Department of Management and International Business, 2007)
This paper explores the reasons for the failure of local and national leaders to adequately deal with the crisis that resulted from Hurricane Katrina September 2005. It is argued that the failure of instrumentality ...