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- Amacker, Ariana, 1980, et al.
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Arts-Based Techniques in Process Research: Learning to See the Forest for the Trees
- 2022
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Ingår i: Doing Process research in organizations: Noticing Differently. - : Oxford University PressOxford. - 9780192849632 ; , s. 39-58
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Bokkapitel (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- In this chapter we explore how mind-body techniques derived from arts-based pedagogy can inform process research. Following William James and John Dewey, our inquiry starts from direct experience as we aspire to ‘learn to see’ the forest for the trees both literally and figuratively. We develop a set-up to help guide intention, attention and connection, and experiment with and reflect on body-mind techniques. As we respond to our sensory and imaginative encounter with a forest, we find out how our integrated awareness in the present moment helps us learn to notice differently. We enact a shift in perspective from an entative view which focuses on the trees, to a processual view which focuses on the forest as a living organism. This shift enables a different relationship to the forest, helping us notice the continuity, relationality and temporality of the forest. These insights open up new possibilities for us as processual researchers.
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- Bremer, Constantin, 1995, et al.
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Agile Organizations: Challenges and Tensions from the Employee Perspective
- 2021
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Ingår i: Proceedings of the 22nd International CINet Conference. - 9789077360248 ; , s. 94-103
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Konferensbidrag (refereegranskat)abstract
- Amidst increasingly dynamic and complex environments, new organizational forms deviating from the traditional managerial hierarchy and its underlying principles have emerged. Meanwhile, the agile movement has taken organizations of all types and sizes by storm. What started as a methodology for managing software development projects in a more pragmatic and human-centered way grew into a philosophy shaping the design of entire organizations, and further research on agile organizations is being called for. Viewed through the lens of self-managing organizations, we investigate agile organizations from the dynamic and social perspective of organizing. Drawing on interviews conducted with employees of a Swedish software company, we identify the tension of freedom–clarity as dominant and portray the related challenges employees experience as they navigate the agile organization. We also pinpoint inclusion, proactivity and trust as values agile organizations seem to be built upon, much in line with the thinking of the Agile Manifesto. Finally, we call for further research on new organizational forms from the organizing perspective and offer a refined framework to better reflect the dynamic, intertwined and inherently social nature of the challenges to be experienced within these organizational forms.
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- Bremer, Constantin, 1995, et al.
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Practicing Agility: Proposing an Agile Organization Design Manifesto
- 2022
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Konferensbidrag (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- The interest in business agility and agile organizations is high on CEOs’ agendas in response to rising degrees of uncertainty and change. In line with dominating management theories, agility is typically positioned as an organization’s capability to be flexible, and agile organizations are entities which successfully leverage this capability for managing turbulent environments. In this paper, we develop an alternative to this agility as capability paradigm, focusing instead on what it means to practice agility from the inside. We draw on Mary Parker Follett and the experiences of managers and employees in a case study of an organization “born agile”, designed according to the principles of the Agile Manifesto, to outline the agility as practice paradigm, which gives primacy to people and relationships rather than focusing on assets, methods and tools. Based on the tension-embracing agility as practice paradigm, we develop a Manifesto for Agile Organization Design and discuss implications for managers and employees navigating the agile organizational space. In essence, this manifesto requires all organizational members to adopt, embrace and enact a creative and experimental attitude that seeks to collaboratively find new ways forward, seeing tensions as opportunities for finding a new common ground, leadership as distributed, strategy and organization design as emergent and structures as flexible.
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- Dixon, Brian, et al.
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Introduction: Pragmatism, Dewey, and Design Inquiry
- 2023
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Ingår i: Design Issues. - 1531-4790 .- 0747-9360. ; 39:4, s. 3-8
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Tidskriftsartikel (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- This article introduces the special issue on Design Pragmatism and Design Inquiry by drawing attention to the key design-orientated principles found in pragmatism, detailing the content of the articles and, from this, mapping the direction for future research.
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- Rylander Eklund, Anna, 1972, et al.
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Design thinking as sensemaking—Developing a pragmatist theory of practice to (re)introduce sensibility
- 2022
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Ingår i: Journal of Product Innovation Management. - : Wiley. - 0737-6782 .- 1540-5885. ; 39:1, s. 24-43
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Design thinking is based on designers’ creative ways of working and is defined as a formal method for creative problem solving aimed at fostering innovation by harnessing “the designer's sensibility and methods.” The basic premise is that design “thinking” can be extracted and separated from the situated practice of designing in the studio. This approach has given rise to a widely accepted nomenclature for describing design which has improved communication between designers and managers, leading to massive interest in adoption of design thinking in management settings. However, due to a widespread implicit cognitivism in the literature, scholars find it difficult to explain the cultural and experiential qualities of design thinking and it tends to be presented as a fundamentally cognitive, problem-solving activity. We argue that these cognitivist tendencies preclude proper attention to and theorization of designers’ creative practice. We contend that the absence of a theory of practice prevents a deeper understanding of the contribution of design thinking to innovation, loses sight of the sensibility on which it relies, and hampers realization of the promise of design thinking. We develop an alternative theoretical perspective, grounded in a pragmatist theory of practice and the studio culture from which designers’ creative practice developed. This theoretical perspective allows design thinking to be understood as sensemaking, foregrounds imagination and improvisation as its core activities, and explains how sensibility is developed and nurtured. We review the design thinking literature through this pragmatist lens and discuss the implications for theory and practice of conceptualizing design thinking as sensemaking.
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- Rylander Eklund, Anna, 1972, et al.
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Pre-Reflection-in-Action: Rethinking Schön’s Reflective Practice Through the “Habits of Design Artistry”
- 2023
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Ingår i: Design Issues. - 1531-4790 .- 0747-9360. ; 39:4, s. 9-20
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This article examines Donald Schön's positioning of reflective practice in relation to design. In particular, the focus is directed toward his presentation of the acting–thinking relationship. Questioning this presentation we turn to the work of philosopher John Dewey, who acted as one of Schön's key inspirational sources. Here, we consider Dewey's presentation of thought-in-action, artistry, and importantly, habit. We argue that a wider referencing of this material—most especially the art–habits relationship—holds the potential to expand the Schönian presentation of design, providing the field with a more nuanced modeling of what it means both to design and to become a designer.
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- Rylander Eklund, Anna, 1972, et al.
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Towards a Follettian foundation for self-managing organizations: Learning to lead together through making together
- 2022
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Konferensbidrag (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- The interest in self-managing organizations has grown steadily in the past decade as indicated by the rising number of popular management books that explore ‘new ways of working’ based on ‘progressive’ or ‘liberated’ organizations like Semco, W.L. Gore, Buurtzorg and Zappos. A new field of research is emerging that examines these self-managing organizations as ‘a novel organizational form’ characterized by their ‘radical decentralization of authority’ (Lee and Edmondson, 2017), focusing on the structural characteristics that set these organizations apart from others. In this paper we propose an alternative perspective for exploring these organizations; based on the relational process philosophy of Mary Parker Follett and a review of the most influential practitioner-oriented books in the ‘new ways of working’ movement, we suggest that what unites these organizations is processual worldview and a profound belief in the capacity of all people to act intelligently and creatively given the right conditions. We argue that Follett’s conceptualization of group organizing and integrative attitude offers an appropriate foundation for developing a language to describe a processual, relational worldview that underpins a collaborative, participatory process of self-governance that could better support the exploration of the practices of organizations in the ‘new ways of working’ movement.
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