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Notes on contributors

Introduction

Pt. 1. Aesthetic theory. 1. The aesthetic approach in organization studies / Antonio Strati ; 2. The art management of aesthetic organizing / Pierre Guillet de Monthoux

Pt. 2. Aesthetic processes. 3. Ashes and madness: the play of negativity and the poetics of organization / Stephen Linstead ; 4. The aesthetics of reticence: collections and recollections / Heather Höpfl

Pt. 3. Aesthetics and modes of analysis. 5. 'Cutting a show': grounded aesthetics and entertainments organizations / Brian Rusted ; 6. Routine pleasures: the aesthetics of the mundane / David Silverman

Pt. 4. Crafting an aesthetic. 7. Observer versus audience / Hugo Letiche ; 8. An-aesthetics / Pippa Carter and Norman Jackson

Pt. 5. Aesthetics, ethics and identity. 9. 'Sauviter in modo, fortiter in re': appearance, reality and the early Jesuits / Harro Höpfl ; 10. Resurfacing an aesthetics of existence as an alternative to business ethics / Stephen Cummings

Pt. 6. Radical aesthetics and change. 11. Cultivating an aesthetic of unfolding: jazz improvisation as a self-organizing system / Frank J. Barrett ; 12. The rhythm of the saints: cultural resistance, popular music and collectivist organization in Salvador, Bahia in Brazil / Stewart Clegg

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