Synopses & Reviews
Examines the alternative belief systems which contemporary organizational actors live by and through which they seek to find meaning within the dominant (neo)capitalist social order. This volume marks an attempt to move the study of belief forward within management and organization studies.
Synopsis
Surveying the complex field of Shakespeare studies today, this book argues that a return to original practices would revive the field. Pechter advances the idea that scholars can perform more effectively by relaxing some of the materialist principles guiding current work, and by reconnecting with the traditions of Romantic commentary from which Shakespearean critical practice developed.
About the Author
PETER CASE is a professor of Management and Organization Studies at James Cook University, Townsville, Australia. His research interests encompass corporate social and environmental responsibility, leadership ethics and behaviour change in organizations. He served as general editor of Culture and Organization (2007-10) and is currently a member of the editorial boards of Leadership, Leadership and Organizational Development Journal, Business and Society Review and the Journal of Management, and Spirituality and Religion. His publications include The Speed of Organization (2006), John Adair: the Fundamentals of Leadership (2007) and Worldly Leadership (2012).
HEATHER HÖPFL is a visiting professor at the University of South Australia, Australia, and has a background in commercial research and theatre. Her recent publications have been on dirty work and notions of exile. She is interested in organizational architecture and has published three special issues of journals on the subject in 2011.
HUGO LETICHE combines in his work post-phenomenology with (social) complexity theory, in an effort to champion ethical narrativism in organizational studies. He has been the Professor of 'Meaning in Organization' at the Universiteit voor Humanistiek, Utrecht, the Netherlands, since 1999, where he was director of the part-time PhD program. He studied at the University of Chicago (BA), Leiden University (Drs) and the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam (PhD). He first taught philosophy at Polytechnic 'De Horst', and then phenomenological and qualitative research methods at the Nutsseminarium, University of Amsterdam, followed by the Erasmus University, Rotterdam. Previously he was a part-time professor at Lancaster, Keele and Durham Universities, and at Bristol Business School; and a Visiting Professor at the University of California at Berkeley and Osaka City University. His recent writings include Making Healthcare Care (2008) and he co-authored Coherence in the Midst of Complexity (2012).
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Notes on Contributors
Introduction; P.Case, H.Höpfl and H.LeticheBelief; A.LingisPhilosophy As Activity; H.Letiche and J.-L.MoriceauBuddhist Belief and Living Ethics: Challenging Business Ethics; P.Case and R.Brohm Organising a Buddhist Way; D.M.HoskingIslam, Belief System and Organization; D.WeirCatholicism: Incarnation and Remembrance of the Body; H.HöpflWaging A War Against Oneself: Busy-ness, Contemplation and the Mystery of Being; D.TorevellAgency Without Agents: Exploring the Relationship Between Identity and Ethics; J.RobertsTrading Belief: Moments of Exchange; G.Lightfoot & S.LilleySustainability and the Spiritual Work Ethic; E.Bell, J.Cullen and S.Taylor
Belief, Parrhesia and Practice; H.Letiche