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- Bay, Thomas, 1958-
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AND ... AND ... AND ... : Reiterating Financial Derivation
- 1998
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Doctoral thesis (other academic/artistic)abstract
- This essay is an attempt at examining the general logic of derivation, the organisational geno-practice of financial derivationówhat I have called: reiterative derivation. I will endeavour to reiterate, to repeat otherwise, to displace the derivative distinction which apart from providing the financial markets with ever new business opportunities, makes financial instruments like options and futures the potential turning point, the crisis, the utmost risk, the pure possibility, of any economic reality. Stated another way, reiterative derivation is the opening of economy, the economyís way out, its line of flight, its passibility, the invention of its future. A derivative is a financial strategy designed to handle price risks, value fluctuations in its underlying economy; it performs this task by acting simultaneously as either an instrument or a marketable commodity. Offering itself not only as a forceful appendage, a financial device, but as the possibility to deterritorialise displace unsecure uproot its underlying economic reality, the derivative displays an extremely creative approach to the economic world. What I would like to indicate in and through the present essay, then, is how financial derivation works. Not so much, perhaps, in the instrumental sense, but rather as a vehicle allowing one to create and travel into economic worlds, or, perhaps better, economic assemblages, economic ensembles so complex and complicated that they can no longer be understood as either this or that, either, for instance, real or imaginary, but should rather be interstood as imaginary economic realities, either or ... or ... or ... both and ... and ... and ...Abstract, as I use it here, should not be understood in its (perhaps) most common or ordinary sense, as a summary or epitome, as something that presents the point, comprises or concentrates the essence of my essay and thereby facilitates its comprehension. It should rather be interstood as, at one and the same time, a deviation, a diversion, an attempt to draw your attention away from the textual strategies employed (the word abstract derives from the Latin verb abstrahere, to draw away, withdraw); to ìguideî your reading, that is to say, to lure you into the textís own protocols of reading, sheltering thereby the text from being conceived too generously, a way of inviting you to invent your own reading, to write while reading, to proceed with a Deleuzean restrained step, to decide without choosing, to hold while letting go, to grasp while leaving be, to open yourself up to what is still to come, to not knowing what will happen before it happens, to the possibility of nothing happening, towards that which is (always) in the process of coming about, to adventure, the future, to the theme of this essay: the experience of financial derivation, the geno-practice of financial derivation, the economyís monstrous other, the economic futureóto, in short: reiterative derivation.
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- Beckius, Göran, 1948-
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Företagsetik : En studie av etiskt organiserande i några svenska företag
- 2006
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Doctoral thesis (other academic/artistic)abstract
- Although research in business ethics has of late received increased attention from researchers and practitioners, little has been written on the practical effects of its implementation.The aim of the present study is, therefore, to explore the meaning and implications of business ethics from a practical perspective. To these ends, a qualitative study, mainly based on a grounded theory approach, has been carried out. The target of analysis is a corpus material derived from informants from 9 companies ranging from different sectors: 2 from the manufacturing sector, 1 company from the pharmaceutical sector and 6 companies from the financial sector.The results show that almost all the companies under consideration have set up some ethical structures for implementing their ethical practices, and lived up to the embraced ethical values in their business conduct. The results also indicate that the companies have actually responded favorably to the requirements and demands of various stakeholders.Furthermore, the emerging structures constitute the basis of a fully operative concept for organizing and implementing an ethical business conduct in organizations. This concept mainly consists of the following categories: ethics, rules, institutionalization, observing and abiding. These can all be applied separately or as a whole and as such be an instrument for measuring an organizations ethical level.
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- Birnbaum, Daniel, et al.
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Thirteen questions about the object to Graham Harman
- 2020
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In: Artful objects : Graham Harman on art and the business of speculative realism. - Berlin ; Stockholm : Sternberg Press ; Stockholm School of Economics. - 9783956795244 ; , s. 43-72
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- Dahl, Matilda, 1978-, et al.
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The poetic teaching space: Gaston Bachelard and a third realm in management education
- 2021
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In: Culture and Organization. - : Taylor & Francis. - 1475-9551 .- 1477-2760. ; 28:3-4, s. 362-377
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Journal article (peer-reviewed)abstract
- How to make students and teachers stopStop and think and feelReading slowReading aloudSavouring silenceBeing there with all our emotions and bodiesAn experimentNot a social experimentNot a psychological experimentBut a poeticAccompanied by a French philosopherGaston Bachelard was always therein the atmosphereOur classroom practiceWith our master’s studentsIn sustainable managementWe searched for poetic momentsTurned into a conversationTurned into a paperA paper about the poetics of teachingPhenomenologizing philosophyRupturing classrooms
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- Dahl, Matilda, 1978-, et al.
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Writing, dreams and imagination
- 2020. - 1
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In: Aesthetics, Organization, and Humanistic Management. - : Routledge. - 9781003091530 ; , s. 47-58
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Book chapter (other academic/artistic)abstract
- Studies of philosophy have shown that daydreaming is essential for our imagination. Through daydreaming, the present reality can be expanded as new life worlds take shape. How this happens and how the dreamt realities play a role in today’s organizations we, however, know little about. In this chapter we are working on how to make sense of our research material about daydreaming and trying out different ways of how to write about it. In these attempts we face a fundamental question: is it a dream in itself that an academic text, about a woman who manages (and daydreams on) her farm, can give rise to poetic images?As we search for ways of writing that can give rise to poetic images, we experiment with a triptych in the form of photos, poetry, and a portrait. It turns out to become a kind of triangulation among the pictures we see through the lenses of our cameras, an impressionistic biography, and a rendering of what we hear when we listen to a farmer; as if the poetic image would emerge from these impressions offered by our studied organization. The chapter attempts to open up to ways of writing where different images can be born to evoke poetic aspects of the material at hand rather than merely represent its factual “evidence.”Working with the triptych, and hopefully in reading it, the different texts create a stop in the flow of reading, enabling us to pause and inviting us to a journey.
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- Digerfeldt-Månsson, Theresa, 1964-
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Formernas liv i designföretaget : Om design och design management som konst
- 2009
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Doctoral thesis (other academic/artistic)abstract
- Design management has become strongly associated with strategic management of creative resources or immaterial assets within the creative economy. It is a development that has involved a growing interest in the way innovative and aesthetically oriented design companies use design as a resource. They constitute a category of companies that claim to represent a unique way of looking upon design itself and also a more intuitive and entrepreneurial design management philosophy. The research concerns Swedish so-called “radical design innovators” who are active in the furniture and interior decoration industry. The study is based on in-depth interviews with leaders, and the aim has been to gain greater insight into how they look upon design as a resource. The study was done from an art point of view. Since design management, due to its alliance with creative economy, has incorporated aspects traditionally associated with the artistic sphere, the aim of the study has also been to improve our theoretical understanding of how art broadens the way by which design is looked upon as a creative resource. Art is represented by Henri Focillon and his notion of “form as life”. Art is understood as something that belongs to knowledge and reality directly at a basic level. The study shows that the design leaders perceive design-form as a poetic image, i.e. as a “lived” quality that escapes verbal definition as it appears as a movement in space, matter, mind, and time. It also shows how their intuitive design management philosophy can only be understood if we look upon design as an artistic process, i.e. a process based on the dynamic relationship between seeing, doing, and bodily being-in-the-world. To sum up the study shows the importance of conceptualizing radical design innovators as aesthetic actors - and not only as innovative ones - if we are to achieve a fuller understanding of where their creative potential resides.
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Economic Ekphrasis : Goldin+Senneby and art for business education
- 2021
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Editorial collection (other academic/artistic)abstract
- Economic Ekphrasis proposes a model for art-based business education. Using the 2016 exhibition Standard Length of a Miracle by conceptual artist duo Goldin+Senneby as a case study, the book examines how art can be activated at every level of an academic institution providing a novel scientific method in business studies. This is the second book in the SSE Art Initiative book series Experiments in Art and Capitalism.
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- Ferdfelt, Henrik, 1963-
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pop
- 2006
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Doctoral thesis (other academic/artistic)abstract
- How do pop musicians manage on fields of tension between Homo Economicus and Homo Creatus? How do they organize themselves and their worlds combining creativity and commerce? This way of addressing the question assumes pop to be performed on a borderline between culture and commerce. Pop musicians´ comments do however not support the much favoured idea of art and business as dichotomous forces. They rather reveal an indeterminate interrelatedness that attracts and affects. Do dualisms get stuck in “either-or” and “right-or-wrong” positions unfit to understand the social events pop artists both shape and get defined by? Do dichotomies obstruct creative inventions while a “this-and-that” attitude preconditions lines of flight and forces of invention more suited to a pop existence?Trying to grasp how pop musicians cope with organizing, creating, marketing, financing and managing means confronting a complex muddle of continuous unravelling, disentangling and elucidating social spaces. Pop manages expression and money, both individually and collectively, whilst organizing with others that may or may not share their inspirations and ideas. In this a-dichotomous attempt to understand the potentialities of pop, both Homo Economicus and Homo Creatus fade away leaving the stage to Homo Intermezzo - a nomad navigating on vague fields in constant flow.
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- Forslund, Dick, 1953-
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Hit med pengarna! : Sparandets genealogi och den finansiella övertalningens vetandekonst
- 2008
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Doctoral thesis (other academic/artistic)abstract
- Idag pågår i hela västvärlden försök att finansiellt utbilda allmänheten. Vi möts överallt av finansiell reklam. I de nya budskapen om bra finansiellt beteende finns en ny slags moralism – det är tesen i denna avhandlings kritiska genealogi över penningsparandets påbjudna sanningar, moral och känsloliv under två århundraden. Vilka är de nya sanningarna? Men framför allt: Vilka är det rätta känslorna för den enskilde att idag odla i förhållande till det finansiella systemet? Maktutövande övertalning-undervisning i privatekonomiska frågor inriktas på det mottagande subjektets känsloliv. Avhandlingens styrande fråga är: Hur känns mötet med dagens finansiella reklam och folkbildningsförsök? Frågan överskrider analyser av maktutövning i och med språket som, i Michel Foucaults efterföljd, inriktas på tänkande och rationalitet.Ett kvantifierande system grundas i känsla som ytterst styr dess tolkningssystem: systemets subjektiveringssida. Ett generiskt subjekt är tolkningssystemets optimerande ledare. Vår relation till det präglas av ett tillkortakommande. Avhandlingen talar ofta ur detta imaginära subjekts mun, i inkännande tolkning av ”jag” i nutida reklam och folkbildningstexter.I det nya talet om hushållsekonomi framhålls finansiell stoicism som ett ideal. Det finansiella systemet är inte amoraliskt. Det är ett centralt moraliskt system i våra samhällen. Pengar är samhällets viktigaste organisationsmedel, hierarkiseringsmedel och uppfostringsmedel. I avhandlingen framträder till slut utropet, kravet och rådet ”Hit med pengarna!” som det undersökta tolkningssystemets kärnutsaga.
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- Guillet de Monthoux, Pierre
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Actions and Decisions: Pragmatism Gateway to Artful Analytic Management Philosophizing
- 2017
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In: Philosophy of Management. - : Springer Verlag (Germany). - 1740-3812 .- 2052-9597. ; 16:3, s. 279-290
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Journal article (peer-reviewed)abstract
- How management philosophy is conceived depends on if pragmatism is acknowledged or not! After having been under the main domination of management science both research and education has until recently widened its scope from a decision-making to an action-perspective. It seems to be a recent reconnection to pragmatism that makes the 2011 Carnegie report propose to rethink management in liberal arts terms, whilst the vastly influential 1959 Carnegie Pierson report distanced itself from American pragmatism thus focusing on decisions and forgetting actions. Actions may contain decisions and choices but contain more than that. A decision-perspective explains by causal inference modelling choices as calculated or programmed. The action-perspectives strive at understanding intentions of agents by philosophical interpretations of action stories. It is less limited to finding the logics for constructing worlds, to paraphrase Herbert Simon's favorite philosopher Rudolf Carnap, than embarking on plausible, although not certain, reconstructions of intentions giving meaning to action stories. This can be illustrated by turning to Elizabeth Anscombe's Wittgensteinian investigation of intentions as Aristotelian syllogistic reasoning. Her constant analytical care to defend a philosophy of action against metaphysical assumptions and taken-for-granted "psychologisms" shows that an action-perspective is as analytic as ever one of decision-making. What differs is that the latter seems constantly attracted by programming inquiry by "scientific methodology" whilst the latter is charmed by philosophical approaches to action welcoming fascinating conundrums, enigmas and human goofs in the reality of managerial practice. Management science wants to reduce management to logics, programs and models for formal decision making whereas management philosophy is closer to spotting the artfully entrepreneurial in actions. The latter points in the direction of engineering tools, the firmer to appreciate the toys of management as artwork. Finally the argument of Georg Henrik von Wright helps us see that the two are philosophically compatible; for in a pragmatically inspired management philosophy actions may well contain decisions.
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- Guillet de Monthoux, Pierre
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Aesthetics for Economists
- 2007
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In: The Principles of Knowledge. - : Edward Elgar: Cheltenham, UK.
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- Guillet de Monthoux, Pierre, et al.
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COVID-19, art and luxury: From digitalization to analogization in COVID-19 times.
- 2020
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In: Sweden through the crisis. - Stockholm : Stockholm School of Economics Institute for Research. - 9789186797386 ; , s. 543-554
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Book chapter (other academic/artistic)abstract
- In this article, Pierre Guillet de Monthoux, Tinni Rappe and Anna Harding describe key learnings from an Art and Luxury course. Interestingly, it was the many Zoom meetings that helped to secure an analogue Zone. Through digital means, teachers, students and guest speakers discussed how to create fantastic analogue showrooms. In times of COVID-19, it was digitalization that enabled the creation of new physical and analogue zones!
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- Guillet de Monthoux, Pierre
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Curating capitalism : How Art Impacts Business, Management, and Economy
- 2022. - 1
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Book (other academic/artistic)abstract
- Curating has evolved into much more than creating interesting exhibitions, promoting artists, and selling artwork. Art worlds have fused with business worlds and transformed capitalism from the inside out. To 'curate capitalism' implies new ways of management that go far beyond the simple commercialization of art and artist. Today, art and the artist inspire business.
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- Guillet de Monthoux, Pierre
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Curating Management Philosophy: Art and Aesthetics for Business Education
- 2022
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In: Handbook of Philosophy of Management. - Cham : Springer International Publishing. - 2524-4361. - 9783030766061 - 3030766063 - 9783030766054 - 3030766055 ; , s. 529-547
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Book chapter (other academic/artistic)abstract
- This chapter describes how art today is curated into management philosophy and how it came to be like that. A walk through the Stockholm School of Economics introduces the reader to the pedagogical and intellectual foundations of its art-based curriculum. Today, art and commerce naturally crisscross in an economy where aesthetics increasingly matters. The chapter historically traces the Stockholm School of Economics’ relation with art, to illustrate how art before the millennium was predominantly instrumentalized in critical management discourses as invectives, irony, imitations, and interventions. The chapter then discusses how intentional art has inspired post-2000 the approach of the Stockholm School of Economics to curate management knowledge and education.
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- Guillet de Monthoux, Pierre
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Den synliga foten och osynliga handen
- 2008
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In: KulturSverige 2009. - Linköping : Swedish Cultural Policy Research Observatory. - 9789173937504 ; , s. 103-105
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Book chapter (other academic/artistic)abstract
- Vad håller konstnärer på med; egentligen? Late Marcel Duchamp spelade schack, passionerade Pablo Picasso hängde på tjurfäktning och liderlige Salvador Dali onanerade ideligen; allt enligt egna romantiska utsagor. Tro´t den som vill, idag har konstnärs-Svensson inte tid för sånt trams; hon är nämligen en entreprenör. I alla fall om man skall tro Mikael Scherdin, som i en autoetnografisk forskningsrapport1 ger en detaljerad beskrivning av en svensk konstnärs vedermödor för att nå en plats vid kreativitetens köttgrytor. Som lokalt komplement till en växande internationell konstsociologisk litteratur målar Scherdin ett svenskt porträtt av konstnären som entreprenör, fullt nedsänkt i våra lokala kulturekonomiska realiteter.
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- Guillet de Monthoux, Pierre, et al.
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Ekphrastic entropy: widening the concept of art
- 2021
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In: Economic Ekphrasis : Goldin+Senneby and art for business education. - Stockholm ; Berlin : Stockholm School of Economics ; Sternberg Press. - 9783956795442 ; , s. 131-136
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- Guillet de Monthoux, Pierre, et al.
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Facing art
- 2021
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In: Economic Ekphrasis : Goldin+Senneby and art for business education. - Stockholm ; Berlin : Stockholm School of Economics ; Sternberg Press. - 9783956795442 ; , s. 37-43
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- Guillet de Monthoux, Pierre
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Hermeuntik des Handelns
- 2007
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In: Oeconomenta- Wechselspiele zwischen Kunst und Wirtschaft. - : Kadmos Kulturverlag: Berlin.
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- Guillet de Monthoux, Pierre
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The Art Firm: Aesthetic management and metaphysical marketing from Wagner to Wilson
- 2004
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Book (other academic/artistic)abstract
- The Art Firm explores the seemingly unorthodox alliance of the arts, management, and marketing. Art firms as avant-garde enterprises and arts corporations have existed for at least two hundred years, using texts, images, and other types of art to create corporate wealth. This book investigates how to apply the methods artists use in creating value to the methods more traditional managers use in running their businesses.Guillet de Monthoux offers a crash course in aesthetics from Kant to Gadamer, showing how aesthetic management and metaphysical marketing can create value. Using case studies of successful art managers from Richard Wagner to Robert Wilson, the author illustrates the creative role so central to value-making in contemporary economies performed by aesthetic play in art firms. Along the way, Guillet de Monthoux points out how responsible aesthetic management and marketing can eradicate the problems of banality and totality, the two capital sins of an art-based economy.
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- Guillet de Monthoux, Pierre, et al.
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The new Honey Pump and Cracking circular flows
- 2021
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In: Economic Ekphrasis : Goldin+Senneby and art for business education. - Stockholm ; Berlin : Stockholm School of Economics ; Sternberg Press. - 9783956795442 ; , s. 93-96
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- Helin, Jenny, et al.
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Bachelard’s Backdoor to Happy Business School Phenomenology
- 2023
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In: The Oxford Handbook of Phenomenologies and Organization Studies. - : Oxford University Press. - 9780191956508 - 9780192865755 - 0192865757 ; , s. 330-346
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Book chapter (other academic/artistic)abstract
- Bachelard, a philosopher, helps introduce a phenomenological sensitivity to organizational investigations. The poetic and the scientific are two different but compatible aspects of organizing. By abandoning a science of organizing dominated by analytical philosophy that dominates US organization theory, we can reconnect to the continental traditions of Bachelard, as well as Husserl and Schütz. Phenomenology returns to questions of reason in lived experiences, forgotten when social science only focuses on instrumental rationality and artificial intelligence.
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- Helin, Jenny, 1972-, et al.
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Caravan Poetry : An Inquiry on Four Wheels
- 2020
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In: Qualitative Inquiry. - : SAGE PUBLICATIONS INC. - 1077-8004 .- 1552-7565. ; 26:6, s. 633-638
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Journal article (peer-reviewed)abstract
- How can we create possibilities for a generative moment between the research participants and ourselves? In a study about (day)dreaming, we searched for ways of doing our research in which we could meet and jointly explore the becoming of life and important matters through our experiences of dreaming. Inspired by Gaston Bachelard's phenomenology of dreaming and in particular his book The Poetics of Space, in which he emphasized the importance of small, intimate spaces for poetic moments to occur, we decided to buy a small countryside caravan. Through this inquiry into a new spatiotemporality for our research encounters, we experienced how the caravan offers a rupture from the mundane ongoingness enabling us to reconnect to the moment, the place, each other, and ourselves. This rupture awakens the verticality of time allowing us to be looking anew and making novel connections. What may be seen as self-evident, but it was not for us, is the recognition that in developing research practices for studying dreaming, we had to first start dreaming ourselves.
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- Helin, Jenny, 1972-, et al.
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The power of daydreaming : the aesthetic act of a new beginning
- 2022
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In: Culture and Organization. - : Routledge. - 1475-9551 .- 1477-2760. ; 28:1, s. 64-78
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Journal article (peer-reviewed)abstract
- What can we learn from a better understanding of the process of daydreaming in an organizational context? That is the main question underpinning this study. Based on a field study with a rural entrepreneur that uses daydreaming as her main strategic tool in the development of her farm, and a reading of Bachelard's work on the phenomenology of 'reverie,' we come to understand daydreaming as an embodied act that emerges at the intersection between relational materiality, vertical temporality and aesthetic space. This conceptualization of daydreaming reminds us that rather than focusing on how to make dreams come true, which is the traditional way of relating to dreams in organizational life, there is a need to enable people to dream anew, because that is when new beginnings can be born, and the particular will to act, through daydreaming, can be released.
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- Ihrfors, Robert, 1969-
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Spelfrossa : Spelets makt och maktens spel
- 2007
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Doctoral thesis (other academic/artistic)abstract
- In Sweden, there has been a major change in the role of gambling during the 20th century. Gambling used to be morally and ethically unjustifiable and something to be fought, whereas gambling today is seen as a normal activity, not only accepted by the society, but in some situations something to be en-couraged. The attitude towards gambling is that it stimulates, motivates, encourages creativity, and also brings pleasure and excitement. It generates national incomes, supports organizational activities and has become an im-portant factor in the Swedish regional planning. Today our values concern-ing gambling are governed by the possible immorality that can arise around it, such as risk with illegal activity coupled to gambling and the increasing debate around problem gambling. The ‘normalisation’ of gambling creates new boundaries for what is to be seen as, and what is an acceptable level, of gambling. As a consequence each individual has been given the responsibil-ity to respect this level. New boundaries create series of conflicts associated to what is normal and what is not, and our society has to find an acceptable balance. We have to respect the individual, our individuality, our right to spend our money and leisure time in a way that suits us. On the other hand, the society has a responsibility towards its citizens to make sure gambling will have no negative social consequences. This dissertation studies Swedish parliament documentation on gambling applying Michel Foucault’s method of genealogy. Starting from his theory of power a description of the development of the Swedish debate on gambling is given. It thereby sheds light on the game of truth within a discourse as well as the disciplinary impact discourses have on society.
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- Kylsberg, Gösta, 1956-
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Kunglig kommunikation - körkonst och tradition : En autoetnografi om autenticitet i ett kungligt konstföretag
- 2011
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Doctoral thesis (other academic/artistic)abstract
- Event marketing has developed in the era of the experience economy. But the rapid growth of the event industry has led to an overflow of events on the market competing for the attention of potential audiences, and events face the risk of becoming non-events or pseudo-events. As a consequence, the demand for experiences has developed into a demand for real and meaningful experiences. This study focuses on a certain category of special events, namely state ceremonies in Sweden. Special events ca be characterized by such qualities as uniqueness, rarity, high quality, traditions, symbolism, authenticity, generosity and can be defined as a unique moment in time celebrated with ceremony and ritual to satisfy special needs. The thesis is an autoethnography, where the Royal Mews, which is the royal transport organization, is looked upon as an art company. The aim of the study is to gain understanding of why horse-drawn carriages are used and what makes them special and effective. The analysis and interpretation of this study are based upon artistic aspects and aesthetic theory. The main contribution of the thesis is within the area of marketing communication, where the concept of rich authenticity and its architecture is understood as a way of analyzing and understanding what makes the Royal Mews special and effective. Rich authenticity is an holistic view where the aspect of a double reality, combining practice and aesthetics is used. State ceremonies using horse-drawn carriages, as special events, create aesthetic experiences through the quality of rich authenticity, which is built upon Vitruvius classic concepts of architecture. A rich, authentic, Royal Mews appears with this perspective to be a Royal Mews of continuity (firmitas), of art practice (venustas) and of communication (utilitas). Aesthetics is an omnipotent distributor of roles between these three pillars that make up the rich authenticity.
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- Scherdin, Mikael, 1961-
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THE INVISIBLE FOOT : Survival of New Art Ideas on the Swedish Art Arena - An Autoethnographic Study of nonTVTVstation
- 2007
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Doctoral thesis (other academic/artistic)abstract
- This thesis is an autoethnographic case study of an avant-garde art project – nonTVTVstation - which achieved broad international success but met several difficulties on the Swedish art arena and eventually ceased operations after 10 years. The puzzle the thesis addresses is: Why did the nonTVTVstation, despite its international success, constantly run into trouble in Sweden and eventually fail to survive as a new art concept? The difficulties associated with the local structures represented an “Invisible Foot”, constantly but in seemingly complex ways upsetting our plans; but the nature and details of this Invisible Foot remained hidden during the years of operation.The study consists of two main parts: (1) The account of a subjectively perceived and self-lived story for gaining an intuitive and holistic understanding of the nonTVTVstation case, serving as a fundament for choosing the adequate theoretical approach, and (2) an analysis using the perspective of variation, selection, and retention models seeking to explain the selection mechanisms operating on nonTVTVstation on the art arena. The thesis proposes a new way of looking at ideas which can be labelled as avant-garde and their pivotal but also precarious role in the dynamics of cultural systems and art arenas in particular. It urges for making a distinction between revolutionary and evolutionary ideas on the art arena, and disentangles its selection mechanisms, not just for the sake of understanding the fate of nonTVTVstation, but also for the increasing international interest in the dynamism of the cultural industry and policy making. By uncovering the selection mechanisms on the Swedish art arena this thesis investigates an unexplored area in academic research, makes a theoretical contribution of general interest to models dealing with the issues of variation, selection, and retention, as well as producing important methodological insights and identifies possible future research directions.
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- Schultz Nybacka, Pamela, 1971-
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Bookonomy : The Consumption Practice and Value of Book Reading
- 2011
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Doctoral thesis (other academic/artistic)abstract
- In contemporary society, book readers are increasingly being valued as consumers. Literacy and reading are often subjected to an economic logic and seen as constituting economic operations in themselves. The overall research objective is to explore whether and to what extent book reading as consumption practice belongs with traditional understandings of economy and culture, consumption and value. This entails studies on different levels: theoretical, methodological and meta-theoretical. The main thesis is that we need to envision another mode of economy related to books and reading, captured in the concept of “bookonomy”.The methodological problems connected to the empirical study of consumption practice can be dealt with constructively if we engage consumers in complementary experimental activities. Visual sessions can contribute directly by: 1.) contextualizing practices in everyday life; 2.) exhibiting visible, material aspects, etc.; 3) uncovering invisible aspects such as the art and logic of practice. Using an abductive approach to science and several types of qualitative data, the study puts consumption practice in a new light.Several logics of book reading are uncovered: distributive, encompassing, additive, geometric, accounting, erosive, and depository. These logics of practice are better understood as consummation, rather than consumption. The meta-theoretical study suggested that unlike economic theory that teaches the allocation of scarce resources to meet infinite needs, bookonomy denotes an underlying pattern of complementary logics that gather together and distribute surplus, both historically and as driver into industrial mass production and post-scarcity. Where economic theory distinguishes between value-in-use (utility), value-in-exchange (value) and value-in-money (price), bookonomic value is an epiphenomenal type of value that simultaneously draws on, takes hold of, and deals out surplus. It is a surplus-to-surplus value-in-store, with a distributive logic at heart.
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- Sjödin, Ulrika, 1967-
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Insiders’ outside/Outsiders’ inside : Rethinking the insider regulation
- 2006
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Doctoral thesis (other academic/artistic)abstract
- Financial speculation has increased dramatically over the last 30 years. This means that a practice that used to be viewed as immoral gambling has become legitimate financial trade. This book explores the genealogy of the coexisting insider trading laws. The insider regulation prohibits trade based on privileged information in order to create equal trading conditions, and in this way uphold confidence in the financial markets among the general public. However, this study shows that the existing view of the insider regulation is misleading and that the regulation is best understood as a game rule aiming to stimulate financial speculation. The protection interest is therefore not primarily the general public, but the financial system as such: the professional market actors sustaining the speculative activities and a growing financial sector. The consequence of stimulating financial speculation is that today’s authorities are attempting to make the financial markets into a lotto-like game, rather than a market for long-term investment. To make the financial markets into liquid and volatile public “games” means that the risks involved in the financial speculation are created by the human hand and the economic system itself rather than being naturally given. This places desire rather than rational needs as the fundamental ground of the economy. The concluding question is; why are we making our economy into a game?
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- Svendsen, Jens Martin, 1953-
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Gör som jag säger! igen och igen : om lojalitet och lek i marknadsföringen: en beskrivning av legitimeringssystematik
- 2010
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Doctoral thesis (other academic/artistic)abstract
- Marknadsföring bildar ett system av kompetenser baserade på kunskap om förfarande. Beroende på hur förfarandet är beskrivet så faller kunskapen ut. Genom att undersöka beskrivningarnas systematik, både vad gäller meningsinnehåll och sammansättning, undersöker texten beskrivningarnas system för legitimering av handlingsalternativ och handlingsrekommendationer: hur denna systematik bildar sambandet mellan är:et och bör:et behandlas. Avslutningsvis ställs en beskrivning av repetitivt förfarande mot en annan beskrivning av samma förfarande – leken. Genom denna kontrasterande beskrivning blir Forskarens (Rekommenderarens) och Hanterarens roller tydliga: beskrivningarna bestämmer de möjliga handlingsalternativen och legitimerar dem, beskrivningarna bestämmer också implicit vilken roll som Forskaren och Hanteraren liksom Kunden (Konsumenten) och den Anställde får. Beskrivningarna bildar – förutom att vara en beskrivning av vad som finns i världen i termer av ting, händelser, egenskaper och rättigheter – också en slags tillskrivande av roller, möjligheter och legitimitet.
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- Södergren, Jonatan, et al.
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La pensée artistique: Arts and Aesthetics in Consumer Research
- 2024
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In: Journal of the Association for Consumer Research. - 2378-1815 .- 2378-1823.
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Conference paper (other academic/artistic)abstract
- This panel highlights the role of art in consumer research, focusing on methodology, theory-building, and impact-making. Panelists will share their experiences of drawing from different aesthetic forms and discuss implications for humanistic inquiry in consumer research. We seek to highlight the ongoing relevance and future opportunities of art-orientated consumer research.
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- Thornquist, Clemens, 1974-
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The Savage and the Designed : Robert Wilson and Vivienne Westwood as Artistic Managers
- 2005
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Doctoral thesis (other academic/artistic)abstract
- This work deals with the management of systematized and collaborative artistic design processes, driven by an auteur. It is a critique of the dominant design management discourse as it identifies three critical issues in the discourse leading to a dilemma in the management of such a collaborative auteur-driven process, (i) a static and institutionalized concept of identity, (ii) a focus on a predetermined direction, (iii) a predominant employment of deterministic design methods. Instead, looking at Vivienne Westwood from the perspective of Robert Wilson, the work seizes qualities of the auteur-driven process that are overlooked in the traditional design management discourse. Such qualities are found through living-with, from the a-perspective of the creative process itself, requiring not only a fusion between designing and design managing, but moreover the adoption of this kind of union as a research methodology. From here, I propose a new design management discourse founded on a different kind of philosophy: a philosophy of intuition. This suggests that the management of a creative artistic process is essentially an intuitive and gestaltive problem rather than a traditional organizational one. It is less about organizing a determined course of events and more about the gestalting of spontaneous acts that in themselves provide the course of development without being neither finalistic nor deterministic. Furthermore, in order to maintain a direction through such paradoxical spontaneous acts, it is argued that the action of the intuitive calls for vigour and becomes a matter of faith in the direction of the gestalted. As such the work elaborates on the three concepts of faith, vigour and gestaltive as the main characteristics of an intuitive approach to artistic management as well as the managed itself: faith being its foundation, vigour its action and gestaltive its aesthetic.
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- Wallmon, Monika
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A Manifesto for Anarchist Entrepreneurship : Provocative Demands for Change and the Entrepreneur
- 2014
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Doctoral thesis (other academic/artistic)abstract
- This manifesto takes a broad and critical approach to entrepreneurial research. The author consciously uses a provocative way of arguing for the importance of challenging received academic wisdom about entrepreneurship.It is a manifesto that spells out why we should question the idea that entrepreneurship research is neutral. It is the academic's privilege to ask questions; hence the appeal here to critical theory, familiar from other traditions than business management, and a useful corrective when considering the dominant and hegemonic perspectives in entrepreneurship research.The manifesto presents entrepreneurship as something that goes far beyond market-oriented business to an enterprising spirit that could keep society self-reflecting and self-critical by questioning what it takes for granted; mobilizing the entrepreneurial energies of those who voluntarily marginalize themselves–individuals and groups who are not afraid to stand out, channeling their self-confidence to defend values that contrast the dominant ones. They are to be found among performance artists practising social art, "extreme" entrepreneurs, and creative anarchists who take society itself as their target when trying to instigate change.When the entrepreneurial focus is not the market per se, but rather the social norms and values in which economic activity is embedded, the entrepreneur's task becomes to challenge whatever is taken for granted–an incitement that is as much social as economic. Thus, the entrepreneur as a provocateur takes on the most established institutions, her only guiding principle being to question whatever principles that society unthinkingly espouses, whatever is taken for granted. Unlike market entrepreneurs, who appreciate institutions since they provide an otherwise unknowable environment with basic "rules of the game", provocative entrepreneurs question even the most formal, long-standing institutions. Their motivation is a generic obstinacy, and their vision is to be recognized for making people aware–and for their actions, even as they rub saltpetre in society's wounds.Entrepreneurship in the form it is presented in this manifesto asks the awkward question or presents the uncomfortable truth, forcing all to take a long hard look at themselves in a cold, self-critical light. The essays here cover a variety of forms of anarchist entrepreneurship–all with a strong driving spirit. The manifesto aims to stimulate entrepreneurs and researchers, as well as politicians and citizens, to engage, to initiate, and to act, all in the name of the society.
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