AACORN & AoM friends
Please join the Caucus on Organization, Art and Aesthetic on August 11,
2008, Monday 8.30-10.20 AM Ventura Room, Hilton Anaheim.
For nearly a hundred years, Management scholars and teachers have been
chasing scientific paradigms in search of management truths. In this
single minded pursuit they have ignored "managing as an art and the art
of managing”. "Art" is used here not as a metaphor, but as
representation of a substantive aesthetic. Organizations are suffused
with art and aesthetic. In recent years this has become an important
area of study. Many management academics are seeking managing skills and
insights from performing, visual, media and other arts. There is much to
be gained by this kind of inquiry. Art is a key to human emotions.
Aesthetic study of organizations can open up the poorly understood
emotional aspects of organizations.
There is no Division of the Academy of Management that focuses on the
art and aesthetics of managing and organizing. At the 2006 AoM meetings
there was an all academy symposium on this topic which was well
attended. And in a prior years there was a caucus and the Fringe Café,
which brought together people with these interests. So I believe there
is emerging interest in this topic.
The purpose of this caucus is to share artistic and aesthetic
organizational inquiry and teaching approaches, and to explore interest
among Academy members of establishing an Interest Group representing
this area. We invite scholars and teachers who study or use artful
methods, or any aspect of the arts in their scholarship or teaching to
join us. Come and sing your management song, do the organizational
dance, show us your stand-up act, share your organizational paintings,
photos, films, videos, give a dramatic performance.
The coffee table will be set up near Santa Barbara/Ventura room which is
around the corner from Balboa B/C.
Looking forward to seeing you in Anaheim!
Paul
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Paul Shrivastava, Ph.D.
Tel 610-737-7333
www.facstaff.bucknell.edu/shrivast
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