The Oxford Handbook of Process Philosophy and Organization Studies

2014 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
William James ◽  
Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz ◽  
Charles Sanders Peirce ◽  
Process Philosophy ◽  
Organization Studies ◽  
Baruch Spinoza ◽  
Wilhelm Dilthey ◽  
Organization And Management ◽  
Process Thinking ◽  
Self Force

This book examines process philosophy in organization studies by focusing on the life and work of a specific philosopher such as Jacques Derrida, Zhuang Zi, Baruch Spinoza, Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz, Wilhelm Dilthey, Charles Sanders Peirce, William James, Gabriel Tarde, Friedrich Nietzsche, and Henri Bergson. It looks at process from five different aspects—temporality, wholeness, openness and the open self, force, and potentiality—that all touch on emerging concerns in organization studies. Each chapter considers how a philosopher’s work could potentially be useful for thinking processually in organization and management studies. Viewing process philosophy as a way of thinking rather than as a specific theory to be used, the book explores how philosophers might make us see things anew. For example, it discusses Daodejing, a compilation of sayings by Laozi, as well as Heraclitus’ philosophy and its inspirations for process thinking in organization studies. In addition, it analyzes the link between process and reality.

Process is How Process Does

2014 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jenny Helin ◽  
Tor Hernes ◽  
Daniel Hjorth ◽  
Robin Holt
Keyword(s):  
Jacques Derrida ◽  
William James ◽  
Mikhail Bakhtin ◽  
Charles Sanders Peirce ◽  
Process Philosophy ◽  
George Herbert ◽  
George Herbert Mead ◽  
Organization And Management ◽  
Self Force ◽  
The Relationship

Process philosophy originally referred to a small group of philosophers including Henri Bergson, William James, and Alfred North Whitehead as well as Heraclitus. These thinkers view the world processually, working from within things and reversing the relationship between ideas and life. This Handbook explores process philosophy’s relationships to organisation studies by focusing on five aspects: temporality, wholeness, openness and the open self, force, and potentiality. Each article considers the life and work of a specific philosopher, such as Jacques Derrida, Charles Sanders Peirce, George Herbert Mead, Mikhail Bakhtin, Hannah Arendt, and Jacquese Lacan, and how their work could potentially be used to think processually in organization and management studies.

Baruch Spinoza (1632–1677)

2014 ◽  
Author(s):  
Daniel Hjorth ◽  
Robin Holt
Keyword(s):  
Process Philosophy ◽  
Organization Studies ◽  
Baruch Spinoza ◽  
Process Thinking ◽  
Basic Concepts ◽  
Agency And Structure

Baruch Spinoza is rarely read in organization studies and figures in discussions on process philosophy or process thinking only occasionally. However, he becomes a most apposite thinker of organization and process in the context of ethics. Spinoza’s philosophy emphasizes both agency and structure as the active or passive modulation of nature, rather than individual agents in their status as subjects, or on structures as determining constraints. This chapter examines Spinoza’s philosophy based on three basic concepts: substance, mode, and attribute. It also discusses his ideas about God, Nature, ethics of coping, conatus, affect and affective capacity, actorship, and organization.

Gottfried Leibniz (1646–1716)

2014 ◽  
Author(s):  
Elke Weik
Keyword(s):  
Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz ◽  
Process Philosophy ◽  
Organization Studies ◽  
Infinitesimal Calculus ◽  
Baruch Spinoza ◽  
Perfect System ◽  
Process Metaphysics ◽  
The World ◽  
René Descartes ◽  
Human World

Born in Leipzig in 1646, Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz is an influential figure in the world of process philosophy. In addition to his philosophical contributions, Leibniz invented the infinitesimal calculus and binary numbers, along with mathematical and logical forms of notation still used today. Leibniz believed that the worlds of theory, praxis, nature, morals, and the divine as well as the human world all formed one perfect system. This chapter examines Leibniz’s philosophy in relation to process metaphysics and its relevance to organization studies. It also discusses his responses to René Descartes and Baruch Spinoza concerning various issues, such as why he called the monads substances. It also considers which organization studies authors use Leibniz today.

Gilles Deleuze (1925–1995)

2014 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anders R. Kristensen ◽  
Thomas Lopdrup-Hjorth ◽  
Bent Meier Sørensen
Keyword(s):  
Jacques Derrida ◽  
Gilles Deleuze ◽  
Organization Studies ◽  
Process Ontology ◽  
Organization And Management ◽  
Process Thinking ◽  
Spirit Of Capitalism ◽  
The Creation ◽  
Contemporary Management

Gilles Deleuze is a French philosopher known for his ontological thinking. In the field of organization studies, Deleuze is associated with postmodernism and post-structuralism along with fellow thinkers such as Jacques Derrida. This chapter examines Deleuze’s philosophical views and considers how processual thinking has emerged as an important area of research within organization and management studies. It first looks at Deleuze’s understanding of metaphysics and the creation of concepts, along with the connection between process organization studies and the creation of concepts. It then discusses the process ontology that exists within process organization studies in the context of process thinking. It also describes the new spirit of capitalism and its implications for contemporary management thought and highlights some individual cases in which a certain, perhaps Deleuzian, philosophy of organization is developed. The chapter concludes by arguing that the deployment of Deleuze’s philosophy in process organization studies should be more normative and pragmatic.

Sweet Spots: Writing the Connective Tissue of Relation

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mattie-Martha Sempert
Keyword(s):  
Connective Tissue ◽  
Virginia Woolf ◽  
William James ◽  
Process Philosophy ◽  
Body Parts ◽  
Baruch Spinoza ◽  
Written Text ◽  
Human Material ◽  
The One ◽  
Sweet Spots

Sweet Spots thinks transversally across language and body, and between text and tissue. This assemblage of essays collectively proposes that words—that is, language that lands as written text—are more-than-human material. And, these materials, composed of forces and flows and tendencies, are capable of generating text-flesh that grows into a thinking in the making. The practice of acupuncture—and its relational thinking—often makes its presence felt to twirl the text-tissue of the bodying essays. Ficto-critical thinking is threaded throughout to activate concepts from process philosophy and use the work of other thinkers (William James, Félix Guattari and Gilles Deleuze, Baruch Spinoza, and Virginia Woolf, to name a few) to forge imaginative connections. Entangled in the text-tissue are an assortment of entities, such as bickering body parts, quivering jellyfish, heart pacemaker cells, a narwhal tooth, Taoist parables, always with ubiquitous, stretchy connective tissue — from gooey interstitial fluid to thick planes of fascia — ever present to ensure that the essaying bodies become, what Alfred North Whitehead calls the one-which-includes-the-many-includes-the-one. The essaying bodies orient towards the sweetest sweet spot which is found, not in the center, but slightly askew, felt in the reverbing more-than that carries their potential. Crucially, this produces a shift in perspective away from self-enclosed bodies and experts toward a care for the connective tissue of relation.

John Dewey (1859–1952)

2014 ◽  
Author(s):  
Linh-Chi Vo ◽  
Mihaela Kelemen
Keyword(s):  
Science Education ◽  
John Dewey ◽  
William James ◽  
Charles Sanders Peirce ◽  
Organization Studies ◽  
The Core ◽  
The Arts ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Political Science Education ◽  
The Relationship

Born in Vermont on 20 October 1859, John Dewey was one of the most controversial philosophy professors of his generation. He published more than 700 articles and wrote approximately 40 books in his lifetime, tackling a wide range of subjects such as philosophy, psychology, political science, education, aesthetics, and the arts. Inspired by William James and Charles Sanders Peirce, Dewey developed his own theory of pragmatism which is often referred to as instrumentalism or experimentalism. Dewey’s notion of experience lies at the core of his philosophy. This chapter examines Dewey’s philosophical views, including those on the relationship between man and the environment, continuity and habit, situation, knowledge, and enquiry. It also discusses the relevance of his pragmatism to organization studies, including organizational learning.

scholarly journals EXPRESS: Political parties and organization studies: The party as a critical case of organizing

2021 ◽  
pp. 017084062110109
Author(s):  
Emil Husted ◽  
Mona Moufahim ◽  
Martin Fredriksson
Keyword(s):  
Political Parties ◽  
Institutional Change ◽  
Political System ◽  
Affective Commitment ◽  
Critical Case ◽  
Organizational Dynamics ◽  
Control Mechanisms ◽  
Progressive Change ◽  
Organization Studies ◽  
Organization And Management

Organization scholars have extensively studied both the politics of organization and the organization of politics. Contributing to the latter, we argue for further and deeper consideration of political parties, since: (1) parties illuminate organizational dynamics of in- and exclusion; (2) internal struggles related to the constitution of identities, practices, and procedures are accentuated in parties; (3) the study of parties allow for the isolation of processes of normative and affective commitment; (4) parties prioritize and intensify normative control mechanisms; (5) party organizing currently represents an example of profound institutional change, as new (digital) formations challenge old bureaucratic models. Consequently, we argue that political parties should be seen as ‘critical cases’ of organizing, meaning that otherwise commonplace phenomena are intensified and exposed in parties. This allows researchers to use parties as magnifying glasses for zooming-in on organizational dynamics that may be suppressed or concealed by the seemingly non-political façade of many contemporary organizations. In conclusion, we argue that organization scholars are in a privileged position to investigate how political parties function today and how their democratic potential can be improved in the future. To this end, we call on Organization and Management Studies to engage actively with alternative parties in an attempt to explore and promote progressive change within the formal political system.

scholarly journals Pragmatismo e economia: elementos filosóficos para uma interpretação do discurso econômico

2006 ◽  
Vol 36 (3) ◽  
pp. 637-661
Author(s):  
Paulo Gala ◽  
Danilo Araújo Fernandes ◽  
José Márcio Rego
Keyword(s):  
John Dewey ◽  
William James ◽  
Richard Rorty ◽  
Charles Sanders Peirce ◽  
Thorstein Veblen ◽  
Milton Friedman

Partindo do debate atual sobre retórica em economia, o trabalho tem por objetivo trazer elementos da corrente filosófica do pragmatismo para a discussão metodológica entre economistas, particularmente no que diz respeito à teoria da verdade e suas implicações epistemológicas. Após apresentar as contribuições dos pioneiros da filosofia pragmatista, William James, John Dewey e Charles Sanders Peirce, e discutir aspectos da obra de Willard Quine e Richard Rorty, procura identificar influências dessa corrente filosófica em importantes economistas tais como John M. Keynes, Milton Friedman e Thorstein Veblen. Por fim conclui com algumas reflexões possivelmente úteis para a prática da ciência econômica.

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