Heidegger and organization: Notes towards a new research programme
The philosophy of Heidegger is matched in its influence on 20th century thinking perhaps only by that of Wittgenstein: yet it has been relatively sparsely utilized in the social sciences generally and more particularly in organization/management studies. The meaning of Being constitutes Heidegger's central problematic, to which all other aspects are related. Prominent among these is his poetic "fourfold": meaningful, "ecstatic" time instead of abstract, disenchanted time: the structure of care and belonging; the sacredness -- concealed or not -- of symbols; and the analytic of finiitude and death. There is also a second and more prosaic fourfold of Being, the elements of which are change, reason, values, and empirical knowledge -- all in their de-alienated, ontological interpretation, radically different from the conventional notions. On a basis of this double fourfold of Being, a new programme for organization and management research is tentatively proposed in this paper.
Authors: | Sköldberg, Kaj |
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Scandinavian Journal of Management. - Elsevier, ISSN 0956-5221. - Vol. 14, 1-2, p. 77-102
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Elsevier |
Keywords: | Time values technology anxiety disclosure change rationality finitude sacredness care |
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