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Organization Studies, Nov 1, 2007

Keynote Speakers: Michael D. Cohen, University of Michigan, USA, co-author of Harnessing Complexi... more Keynote Speakers: Michael D. Cohen, University of Michigan, USA, co-author of Harnessing Complexity: Organizational Implications of a Scientific Frontier Brian Goodwin, Schumacher College, UK, co-author of Signs of Life: How Complexity Pervades Biology Peter Harries-Jones, York University, Canada, author of A Recursive Vision: Ecological Understanding and Gregory Bateson Katherine Hayles, University of California-Los Angeles (UCLA), USA, author of How we Became Posthuman: Virtual Bodies in Cybernetics, Literature and Informatics Geoffrey Hodgson, University of Hertfordshire, UK, Editor-in-Chief of Journal of Institutional Economics, author of How Economics Forgot History Frederick Turner, University of Texas at Dallas, USA, author of Culture of Hope: A New Birth of the Classical Spirit

Routledge eBooks, Dec 2, 2017

Philosophy of the Social Sciences, Jun 1, 1995

This paper reclaims the idea that human society is a form of life, an idea once vibrant in the wo... more This paper reclaims the idea that human society is a form of life, an idea once vibrant in the work of Toennies, Durkheim, Simmel, Le Bon, Kroeber, Freud, Bion, and Follett but moribund today. Despite current disparagements, this idea remains the only and best answer to our primary experience of society as vital feeling. The main obstacle to conceiving society as a life is linguistic; the logical form of life is incommensurate with the logical form of language. However, it is possible to extend our conceptual reach by appealing to alternative symbolisms more congenial to living form such as, and especially, art. The basic facts of human social life-that it is social and that it is alive-are easily overlooked. Yet an alien intelligence seeing human society for the first time could not but be impressed with its sheer presence-people are ever together, in the home, at work, in the cafe, theater, shopping mall, library, on the road, rails, or in the air, tied by telephone and parcel post, joined en masse by broadcast media, and connected through time and space through photograph, phonograph, novel, history, art, poem, reminiscence and imagination. Likewise, an alien intelligence could not but be impressed by the vitality of these societies. They are intricate coordinations of actions, materials, and ideas that are bom, develop, mature, evolve, move, act, think, feel, disband, and die, only to be bom again. Some live long, others flash for an instant. Most give an impression of life. This paper examines the idea of social life-an idea that enjoys little prestige in social science today, but which remains one of its philosophical challenges. Although there is little room for it in a science enamored of matter, energy, and information, the idea of life won't go

Administrative Science Quarterly, 2003

Routledge eBooks, Sep 8, 2017

A new field of positive organizational studies (POS) has been proposed to enlarge our understandi... more A new field of positive organizational studies (POS) has been proposed to enlarge our understanding of organizations to include neglected aspects of social life such as resilience, spontaneity, flow, courage, thriving, and virtue. Despite its promise, this nascent research field has come up against a philosophical problem of knowing more than it can say about the social life of organizations. Drawing upon the art of photography, we describe the social life of organizations in terms of three essential tensions-of love, play, and individuation-that comprise its forms and feelings. We suggest that the field of POS can better realize its important contribution to organization studies by augmenting its focus on the natural causes and effects of social life in organizations with a focus on the spiritual forms and feelings of social life in organizations.

Behavioral and Brain Sciences, Oct 1, 2006

Springer eBooks, 2015

Work and spirit are not separate as we think of them, but are one together, of a piece. This chap... more Work and spirit are not separate as we think of them, but are one together, of a piece. This chapter briefly reviews the largely separate research literatures on the psychology of work and the spirituality of work to note that the latter raises a doubt about scientific naturalism of the former. The chapter seeks a bridge between the two literatures by showing how the most prominent scientific theory of work-the Job Characteristics Model-opens upon the human spirit. The chapter concludes that the psychology of work and the spirituality of work must unite on metaphysical grounds other than those of natural science.

Journal of Organizational Behavior, 2002

The human division of male and female sexes has profound unacknowledged consequences for behavior... more The human division of male and female sexes has profound unacknowledged consequences for behavior in organizations. Sex is not simply an individual difference (like eye color), but is an essential part played in life with others. This essay ®nds sex to be the main organizing principle of human life. Bringing this fact to light, the essay shows how we can begin to understand many perplexing problems of reconciling men and women in organizations today. Copyright # 2002 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

Business and Society Review, Dec 1, 2009

Logos: A Journal of Catholic Thought and Culture, 2008