Phenomenology of the Embodied Organization: The Contribution of Merleau-Ponty for Organizational Studies and Practice

ISBN-13: 9781349498772 / Angielski / Miękka / 2015 / 377 str.

W. Kupers

Opis

Drawing on contemporary debates and responding to an analytic lacuna in organization and management studies and calls from organizational practice, Phenomenology of the Embodied Organization explores the fundamental and integral role of the body and embodiment in organizational life-worlds.

Spis treści

1. Introduction 2. Understanding Phenomenology 3. Advanced Phenomenology And Relational Ontology Of Merleau-Ponty 4. Organisation As An Embodied Life-World Of Practice 5. Phenomenological Understanding Of Practice 6. Embodied Intentionality In Organisation 7. Intercorporeality Of Social Bodies Embodied Intersubjectivities In Organisation 8. Responsiveness As Embodied Modality In Organisations 9. Embodied Agency And 'Bodies At Work' In Organisations 10. Embodied 'Inter-Practice' In Organisations 11. Embodied Habits, In-, De-, And Re- Habitualisation And Improvisation 12. Chiasmic Organising 13. Implications

O autorze

Wendelin Küpers is Professor of Leadership and Organization Studies, Karlshochschule International University, Germany.