Research in management and organization may only gain by being
inspired from arts, culture and humanities in order to rethink practices but
also to nourish its own perspectives. Life in organizations is artificially
separate from ordinary life: all of mundane objects are thus conducive to
astonishment, inspiration, and even problematization. The unplugged
subsection “voices” gives the opportunity to academics and non-academics
to deliver an interpretation about an object from the cultural or artistic
world. Interpreted objects are or not directly related to organizational life,
resonate or not with the moment, but share some intriguing features.
These interpretations suggest a patchwork of variations on the same
object.