Skip to main content
  • Book
  • © 2014

The Poetic Organization

Palgrave Macmillan

Authors:

Buy it now

Buying options

eBook USD 39.99
Price excludes VAT (USA)
  • Available as EPUB and PDF
  • Read on any device
  • Instant download
  • Own it forever
Softcover Book USD 54.99
Price excludes VAT (USA)
  • Compact, lightweight edition
  • Dispatched in 3 to 5 business days
  • Free shipping worldwide - see info
Hardcover Book USD 54.99
Price excludes VAT (USA)
  • Durable hardcover edition
  • Dispatched in 3 to 5 business days
  • Free shipping worldwide - see info

Tax calculation will be finalised at checkout

Other ways to access

This is a preview of subscription content, log in via an institution to check for access.

Table of contents (10 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xiii
  2. Conceptual Framework

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1
    2. Introduction

      • Alexandra Pitsis
      Pages 3-19
    3. A Trajectory of Poetics in Organization

      • Alexandra Pitsis
      Pages 20-41
    4. Research Practices

      • Alexandra Pitsis
      Pages 63-73
  3. Exploring the Poetic in Coach Engagements

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 75-75
    2. Description and Analysis, Poetic Profiles

      • Alexandra Pitsis
      Pages 77-99
    3. Emerging Interpretations

      • Alexandra Pitsis
      Pages 100-121
    4. Interviews and Workshops

      • Alexandra Pitsis
      Pages 122-149
    5. Jack and the Scripts for Rock & Roll Coaching

      • Alexandra Pitsis
      Pages 150-161
  4. Discussion and the Path Taken

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 163-163
    2. Discussion

      • Alexandra Pitsis
      Pages 165-175
    3. Conclusions and Future Issues

      • Alexandra Pitsis
      Pages 176-183
  5. Back Matter

    Pages 184-197

About this book

The Poetic Organization explores the inherent aspects of organization that revolve around poetic processes. This book is a commentary on poetic elements in organization that are critical to developmental areas of organizations, yet poetics are rarely given the attention deserved.

Reviews

"Alexandra Pitsis has written a wonderful book that is remarkable both for its ambition and creativity. Skillfully weaving together philosophy, social science, and literary theory, she opens us to the implicit poetics of organizations as well as giving us a new means through which to research the lived realities of social existence. A great achievement."

Carl Rhodes, Professor of Management, University of Leicester, UK.

"Pitsis shows how important a part poetics plays in organizational life. This testifies to the impressive degree of the originality and creativity in Pitsis' work, and I am hopeful that fellow organizational scholars will dare to pick up these methodological tools in further exploring the poetics of organizational life.'

Torkild Thanem, Professor of Management and Organization Studies, Stockholm Business School, Sweden.

Authors and Affiliations

  • University of Technology Sydney, Australia

    Alexandra Pitsis

About the author

Dr Alexandra Pitsis is a writer whose work primarily revolves around poetics. Published works include chapters on 'Artaud's Poetic Vision and Some Comments on Frederick Taylor' (2009) and 'Cartographies of a Life' (2007). Her research interests include examining how poetics is the unspoken and intricate weave of organizations and bringing this into play through unconventional workshops and creative training.

Bibliographic Information

Buy it now

Buying options

eBook USD 39.99
Price excludes VAT (USA)
  • Available as EPUB and PDF
  • Read on any device
  • Instant download
  • Own it forever
Softcover Book USD 54.99
Price excludes VAT (USA)
  • Compact, lightweight edition
  • Dispatched in 3 to 5 business days
  • Free shipping worldwide - see info
Hardcover Book USD 54.99
Price excludes VAT (USA)
  • Durable hardcover edition
  • Dispatched in 3 to 5 business days
  • Free shipping worldwide - see info

Tax calculation will be finalised at checkout

Other ways to access