Organizations, Art and Gender
Management Online Review, July 2008
Posted: 21 Apr 2008 Last revised: 7 Aug 2008
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
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