The Aesthetics Of Organization

Download or read book The Aesthetics of Organization written by Stephen Linstead and published by SAGE. This book was released on 2000-04-28 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Organizational aesthetics, both as a body of theory and a method of inquiry, is a rapidly expanding area of the organizational sciences. The Aesthetics of Organization accessibly draws key contributions delineating the emerging parameters of the field. It explains the significance of concepts devised by postmodern thinkers, through which emerge meaning and order in organizations. Methodological problems associated with investigations of the aesthetic are also highlighted so the reader can identify and understand the importance of recent ideas on vision, perspective and periphery for learning in organizations. Through the contributions of leading international theorists, organizational aesthetics is defined in greater