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This book presents an experiential, aesthetic-affective approach to the study of institutions. Drawing on institutional sociology, hermeneutics, phenomenology and process philosophy, it conceptualises institutions as collective experiences with their own self-promoting and self-propelling powers. Instead of seeing institutional emergence, change and decline as the result of actors’ interests and manipulations, this book re-establishes the importance of factors beyond human design and intervention. Drawing on process theory, it shows how ideas, norms and values can form self-stabilising configurations that affect people without conscious realisation. It complements current thinking about institutions by showing how institutions constitute people long before people constitute them. With the help of authors as diverse as Antonio Damasio, A.N. Whitehead, J.W. von Goethe and Max Weber, Elke Weik crafts a perspective that allows us to understand institutions as aesthetic and affective powersin their own right.  This book is for researchers interested in process theory, institutional and organisational studies, hermeneutics, and aesthetics.  

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Author:   Elke Weik
Publisher:   Springer Nature Switzerland AG
Imprint:   Springer Nature Switzerland AG
Edition:   1st ed. 2022
Weight:   0.424kg
ISBN:  

9783030898946

ISBN 10:   3030898946
Pages:   149
Publication Date:   29 August 2022
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Chapter 1: Introduction. Chapter 2: Case. 2.1          What is a miles? A chronology 2.2          Ideas encounter other ideas 2.3          Holy War 2.4          The Foundation and Rise of the Knights Templar 2.5          Discussion Chapter 3: Culture. 3.1          The relationship between institutions and culture 3.2          Human agency and Wirksamkeit in institutional emergence 3.3          Summary Chapter 4: Process. 4.1          Key concepts from Whitehead’s “Process and Reality” 4.2          From Whitehead to institutions Chapter 5: Presencing. 5.1          Perception as presencing 5.2          Presencing as “seeing as” 5.3          Multiplicity in unity 5.4          Holism and Increase in being 5.5          Summary Chapter 6: Impression and Expression. 6.1          Insights from Neurobiology: Feelings and Evaluations 6.2          Insights from the Philosophy of Mind: Feelings, Intensities and Dynamic Forms 6.3          Harmony and Rhythm 6.4          Institutions as impressions and expressions 6.5          Experiencing institutions  Chapter 7: Method. 7.1          Goethe’s method of studying ideas as dynamic forms 7.2          Shotter’s method of studying a living human world 7.3          Hennion’s method of studying taste 7.4          The study of institutions from an aesthetic-affective perspective

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Elke Weik is an Associate Professor at the University of Southern Denmark. Her major research areas are located within institutional theory, historical approaches and organizational philosophy. She continues to be fascinated by the marginal, fluid and misfitting. For this reason she has explored the institutional side of wine-making, giving birth, the Knights Templar as well as the emergence of the university in the Middle Ages. She has published in major journals like The Academy of Management Review, Management Learning and Organization.

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