Who’s afraid of the senses? Organization, management and the return of the sensorium
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In: Management Learning, Vol. 53, No. 4, 01.09.2022, p. 625-639.
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T1 - Who’s afraid of the senses? Organization, management and the return of the sensorium
AU - Beyes, Timon
AU - Cnossen, Boukje
AU - Ashcraft, Karen
AU - Bencherki, Nicolas
N1 - Publisher Copyright: © The Author(s) 2022.
PY - 2022/9/1
Y1 - 2022/9/1
N2 - Organization and management are the perpetual, and perpetually fraught and resisted, ordering of sense experience. However, banning the senses into the outside of thought, and of organizational analysis, was – and to a large degree still is – the default and mostly implicit and unquestioned mode of thinking and studying organization and management. Introducing the special issue on ‘The Senses in Management Research and Education’, this essay historicizes and contextualizes the neglect of the senses, dwells upon possible reasons for keeping the sensory at bay and discusses recent attempts to remedy this situation. The contributions to the special issue are introduced into this context. In conclusion, we speculate on what might happen next.
AB - Organization and management are the perpetual, and perpetually fraught and resisted, ordering of sense experience. However, banning the senses into the outside of thought, and of organizational analysis, was – and to a large degree still is – the default and mostly implicit and unquestioned mode of thinking and studying organization and management. Introducing the special issue on ‘The Senses in Management Research and Education’, this essay historicizes and contextualizes the neglect of the senses, dwells upon possible reasons for keeping the sensory at bay and discusses recent attempts to remedy this situation. The contributions to the special issue are introduced into this context. In conclusion, we speculate on what might happen next.
KW - Sociology
KW - Management studies
KW - Aesthetics
KW - affect
KW - body
KW - knowledge
KW - learning
KW - organization
KW - sense perception
KW - senses
KW - Simmel
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85135159610&partnerID=8YFLogxK
UR - https://www.mendeley.com/catalogue/406a56c7-4459-3b5a-a540-15e4ae8dcb58/
U2 - 10.1177/13505076221111423
DO - 10.1177/13505076221111423
M3 - Journal articles
VL - 53
SP - 625
EP - 639
JO - Management Learning
JF - Management Learning
SN - 1350-5076
IS - 4
ER -