The Aesthetic Turn in Management

[2]Finding Form: Looking at the Field of Organizational Aesthetics

Steven S. Taylor and Hans Hansen

Worcester Polytechnic Institute, MA, USA; Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand

Address for reprints: Steven S. Taylor, Worcester Polytechnic Institute, Department of Management, 100 Institute Rd, Worcester, MA 01609, USA ([e-mail]).

ABSTRACT Organizational research has long focused on the instrumental sphere with its questions of efficiency and effectiveness and in recent decades there has been interest in the moral sphere with its questions of ethics. Within the last decade there has also emerged a field that draws on the aesthetic sphere of our existence in organizations. In this review we look at the field of organizational aesthetics ...