‘Cutting a Show’: Grounded Aesthetics and Entertainment Organizations

Rusted, Brian

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“…Several aesthetic researchers have made the link explicit and applied ethnographic methods to capture aesthetic knowledge (e.g. Letiche, 2000;Linstead & Hopfl, 2000;Rusted, 2000).…”

Section: Research Focus and Methodsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Aesthetic leadership

Hansen

Ropo

Sauer

2007

The Leadership Quarterly

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We introduce aesthetic leadership as a promising approach in leadership studies. Two current movements in leadership research, the inclusion of followers in leadership models and the exploration of subjective leadership qualities, make taking an aesthetic perspective in leadership especially attractive and timely. Aesthetics relates to felt meaning generated from sensory perceptions, and involves subjective, tacit knowledge rooted in feeling and emotion. We believe the aesthetics of leadership is an important, but little understood, aspect of organizational life. For example, while we know followers must attribute leadership qualities such as charisma and authenticity to leaders to allow for social influence, we know little about how these processes operate. We propose that followers use their aesthetic senses in making these assessments. We relate aesthetic leadership to several current topics in leadership research, and outline the assumptions and methods of aesthetic leadership.

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“…Several aesthetic researchers have made the link explicit and applied ethnographic methods to capture aesthetic knowledge (e.g. Letiche, 2000;Linstead & Hopfl, 2000;Rusted, 2000).…”

Section: Research Focus and Methodsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Aesthetic leadership

Hansen

Ropo

Sauer

2007

The Leadership Quarterly

181

192

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“…(2) I then conducted a review of methodological approaches taken in a range of empirical studies of aesthetics in organizational settings, noting that studies taking a researcher-ascommentator or 'connoisseur' perspective (Rusted 2000) were more prevalent than those addressing the experiences of organizational members themselves. Those that do take such a focus tend to rely heavily on 'traditional' ethnographic strategies -with alternative possibilities (such as haptic representation (Rippin 2006), olfactory symbolism (Corbett 2006) and anthropological poetics (Linstead 2000) seeming still to be at a highly speculative and experimental stage.…”

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Empirical Challenges in Organizational Aesthetics Research: Towards a Sensual Methodology

Warren

2008

Organization Studies

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1Empirical challenges in organizational aesthetics research: towards a sensual methodology Abstract Despite growing scholarly interest in aesthetic dimensions of organizational life, there is a lack of literature expressly engaging with the methodological mechanics of 'doing aesthetics research'. This article addresses that gap. It begins with an overview of the conceptual idiosyncrasies of 'aesthetics' as a facet of human existence and maps out the challenges these pose for empirical research methodology. A review of methodological approaches adopted to date in empirical studies of organizational aesthetics is then presented. The remainder of the article draws on the author's experiences and suggests methods and techniques to address both conceptual and practical challenges encountered during the execution of an organizational aesthetics research project. The article calls for a firmer focus on the aesthetic experiences of organizational members in addition to those of researchers and concludes with some suggestions as to the future of such 'sensual methodologies' Keywords BiographySamantha lives on the south coast of England with her husband and two sons and is a Senior Lecturer in the School of Management at the University of Surrey where she teaches research methods and organizational behaviour. Her current research interests include organizational aesthetics, processes of material and cultural aestheticization, visual research methods and artsbased management initiatives. She is an executive board member of SCOS, a member of the editorial collective of the journal ephemera: theory and politics in organizations and has guest edited special issues of Consumption, Markets and Culture and the Accounting, Auditing and Accountability Journal.Word count 8,862

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“…Gegenüber dieser Forschungshaltung wendet Rusted (2000) ein, dass sie elitär sei, denn der Forscher nehme seine eigene Erfahrung wichtiger, als diejenige der Erforschten und reklamiere für sich als Forscher eine privilegierte Position. Taylor (2002, S. 822) …”

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Soziologie in Österreich – Internationale Verflechtungen

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2016

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‘Cutting a Show’: Grounded Aesthetics and Entertainment Organizations

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Aesthetic leadership

Empirical Challenges in Organizational Aesthetics Research: Towards a Sensual Methodology

Soziologie in Österreich – Internationale Verflechtungen

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