Relational Practices, Participative Organizing

Chris Steyaert

ISBN 10: 0857240064 / ISBN 13: 9780857240064

Published by Emerald Publishing Limited, GB, 2010

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This book focuses on the concept and role of relational practices as a way to understand and study processes of organizing. Relational practices are conceived as an ongoing, everyday process resulting in more participative ways of organizing. Participative organizing works from and with the multiplicity of interactions inherent in processes of becoming; it reflects upon and experiments with how the diversity of participants and interactions can provide the potential for defining and redefining organizational realities. A" Through reflective essays and empirical research examples, this book illustrates that relational practices of everyday organizational life are strongly entangled with emotional, embodied, and aesthetic processes. The combination of these corollaries of participative organizing -- as an everyday, complex accomplishment, poised between intervention and invention, and between an affective and aesthetic ecology of belonging and becoming -- provides a new perspective on how the practice of organizing and the organizing of practice can be accomplished and managed in the years to come.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Relational Practices, Participative Organizing
• Publisher: Emerald Publishing Limited, GB
• Publication Date: 2010
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0857240064
• ISBN 13: 9780857240064
• Binding: Hardback
• Condition: New
• Dimensions: 15.6W x 1.91H x 23.39D centimeters 15.6 centimeters width by 1.91 centimeters height by 23.39 centimeters depth
• Weight: 658 grams

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Synopsis

This book focuses on the concept and role of relational practices as a way to understand and study processes of organizing. Relational practices are conceived as an ongoing, everyday process resulting in more participative ways of organizing. Participative organizing works from and with the multiplicity of interactions inherent in processes of becoming; it reflects upon and experiments with how the diversity of participants and interactions can provide the potential for defining and redefining organizational realities. A" Through reflective essays and empirical research examples, this book illustrates that relational practices of everyday organizational life are strongly entangled with emotional, embodied, and aesthetic processes. The combination of these corollaries of participative organizing -- as an everyday, complex accomplishment, poised between intervention and invention, and between an affective and aesthetic ecology of belonging and becoming -- provides a new perspective on how the practice of organizing and the organizing of practice can be accomplished and managed in the years to come.