Organizations, Art and Gender

Management Online Review, July 2008

Posted: 21 Apr 2008 Last revised: 7 Aug 2008

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Päivi Eriksson

University of Eastern Finland

Elina Henttonen

Aalto University

Susan Meriläinen

affiliation not provided to SSRN

Date Written: 2008

Abstract

In their search for alternative images and vocabularies organization theorists are using art as a source of inspiration to understand what organizations and organizing are all about. This stream of research argues that art provides an alternative through which we can visualize and narrate organizations as aesthetic, creative, dynamic and improvised. We join the researchers who claim that there is potential in art inspired organizational research to produce new knowledge and social change. However, we also argue that uncritical use of art brings about little social change, and instead, reproduces non-equalizing practices both in organization and art research.

Keywords: organization, art, gender

Suggested Citation

Eriksson, Päivi and Henttonen, Elina and Meriläinen, Susan, Organizations, Art and Gender (2008). Management Online Review, July 2008, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=1122243

Päivi Eriksson

University of Eastern Finland ( email )

Kuopio, 70211
Finland

Elina Henttonen (Contact Author)

Aalto University ( email )

P.O. Box 21210
Aalto, FI-00076
Finland

Susan Meriläinen

affiliation not provided to SSRN

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