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Proceedings of the 28th SCOS conference
Introduction Performance art, a discrete genre within the broader performing arts, makes an impor... more Introduction Performance art, a discrete genre within the broader performing arts, makes an important and unique contribution to arts practice in many ways, including its aims, execution, and interaction with the audience. Although the genre has developed significantly and grown in prominence in the past few decades, particularly with the advent of electronic communication, neither the intricacies of the performative moment nor the dynamics of this network have been researched to any extent. This paper aims to examine perceptions of altruism and utopia within in the global performance art network and the practice itself-does a vision of utopia appear within the performative moment? The global performance art network is central to linking performance artists together and facilitating the generation and continuation of this inspirational art medium. The paper unfolds firstly with a brief introduction to performance art, altruism and utopia as understood within the context of this study. Next, the methodology and findings of this pilot study are presented, along with theoretical and practical implications. This paper concludes with this studies limitations and an outline of future research.
Organization Management Journal, 2014
Industrial Marketing Management, 2015
Organization, 2013
Alasdair MacIntyre’s distinction between institutions and practices helps illuminate how powerful... more Alasdair MacIntyre’s distinction between institutions and practices helps illuminate how powerful institutional forces frame and constrain the practice of organizational research as well as the output and positioning of scholarly journals like Organization. Yet his conceptual frame is limited, not least because it is unclear whether the activity of managing is, or is not, a practice. This article builds on MacIntyre’s ideas by incorporating Aristotle’s concepts of poíēsis, praxis, téchnē and phrónēsis. Rather than ask, following MacIntyre, whether management is a practice, this wider network of concepts provides a richer frame for understanding the nature of managing and the appropriate role for academia. The article outlines a phronetic paradigm for organizational inquiry, and concludes by briefly examining the implications of such a paradigm for research and learning.
European Journal of Marketing, 1994
This paper argues that the philosophical debate in marketing, led by Shelby Hunt and Paul Anderso... more This paper argues that the philosophical debate in marketing, led by Shelby Hunt and Paul Anderson, is no longer providing new insights and is symptomatic of the anthropocentrism of the social sciences.
Humour, work and organization, 2007
Proceedings of the 28th SCOS conference
Introduction Performance art, a discrete genre within the broader performing arts, makes an impor... more Introduction Performance art, a discrete genre within the broader performing arts, makes an important and unique contribution to arts practice in many ways, including its aims, execution, and interaction with the audience. Although the genre has developed significantly and grown in prominence in the past few decades, particularly with the advent of electronic communication, neither the intricacies of the performative moment nor the dynamics of this network have been researched to any extent. This paper aims to examine perceptions of altruism and utopia within in the global performance art network and the practice itself-does a vision of utopia appear within the performative moment? The global performance art network is central to linking performance artists together and facilitating the generation and continuation of this inspirational art medium. The paper unfolds firstly with a brief introduction to performance art, altruism and utopia as understood within the context of this study. Next, the methodology and findings of this pilot study are presented, along with theoretical and practical implications. This paper concludes with this studies limitations and an outline of future research.
Organization Management Journal, 2014
Industrial Marketing Management, 2015
Organization, 2013
Alasdair MacIntyre’s distinction between institutions and practices helps illuminate how powerful... more Alasdair MacIntyre’s distinction between institutions and practices helps illuminate how powerful institutional forces frame and constrain the practice of organizational research as well as the output and positioning of scholarly journals like Organization. Yet his conceptual frame is limited, not least because it is unclear whether the activity of managing is, or is not, a practice. This article builds on MacIntyre’s ideas by incorporating Aristotle’s concepts of poíēsis, praxis, téchnē and phrónēsis. Rather than ask, following MacIntyre, whether management is a practice, this wider network of concepts provides a richer frame for understanding the nature of managing and the appropriate role for academia. The article outlines a phronetic paradigm for organizational inquiry, and concludes by briefly examining the implications of such a paradigm for research and learning.
European Journal of Marketing, 1994
This paper argues that the philosophical debate in marketing, led by Shelby Hunt and Paul Anderso... more This paper argues that the philosophical debate in marketing, led by Shelby Hunt and Paul Anderson, is no longer providing new insights and is symptomatic of the anthropocentrism of the social sciences.
Humour, work and organization, 2007