Oxford Handbook of Process Philosophy and Organization Studies

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This book examines process philosophy in organization studies by focusing on the life and work of a specific philosopher such as Jacques Derrida, Zhuang Zi, Baruch Spinoza, Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz, Wilhelm Dilthey, Charles Sanders Peirce, William James, Gabriel Tarde, Friedrich Nietzsche, and Henri Bergson. It looks at process from five different aspects—temporality, wholeness, openness and the open self, force, and potentiality—that all touch on emerging concerns in organization studies. Each chapter considers how a philosopher’s work could potentially be useful for thinking processually in organization and management studies. Viewing process philosophy as a way of thinking rather than as a specific theory to be used, the book explores how philosophers might make us see things anew. For example, it discusses Daodejing, a compilation of sayings by Laozi, as well as Heraclitus’ philosophy and its inspirations for process thinking in organization studies. In addition, it analyzes the link between process and reality. Ch1: Process is How Process Does Jenny Helin, Tor Hernes, Daniel Hjorth, and Robin Holt Ch2: Laozi’s Daodejing (6th Century BC) Jack Barbalet Ch3: Heraclitus (540–480 BC) Ajit Nayak Ch4: Confucius (551–479 BC) Yuan Li and Wen Haiming Ch5: Zhuangzi (369 BC) Yuan Li and Wen Haiming Ch6: Baruch Spinoza (1632–1677) Daniel Hjorth and Robin Holt Ch7: Gottfried Leibniz (1646–1716) Elke Weik Ch8: Søren Kierkegaard (1813–1855) Sverre Raffnsøe, Matias Møl Dalsgaard, and Marius Gudmand-Høyer Ch9: Wilhelm Dilthey (1833–1911) Andrus Tool Ch10: Charles Sanders Peirce (1839–1914) Philippe Lorino Ch11: William James (1842–1910) Thomas C. Powell Ch12: Gabriel Tarde (1843–1904) Christian Borch Ch13: Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900) Robin Holt and Daniel Hjorth Ch14: Henri Bergson (1859–1941) Steven Linstead Ch15: John Dewey (1859–1952) Linh-Chi Vo and Mihaela Kelemen Ch16: Alfred North Whitehead (1861–1947) Tor Hernes Ch17: George Herbert Mead (1863–1931) Barbara Simpson Ch18: Nishida Kitarō (1870–1945) Robert Chia Ch19: Ludwig Wittgenstein (1889–1952) Robert Richardson, Matt Statler, and Saku Mantere Ch20: Martin Heidegger (1889–1976) Bogdan Costea and Kostas Amiridis Ch21: Mikhail Bakhtin (1895–1975) Ann L. Cunliffe, Jenny Helin, and John T. Luhman Ch22: Jacques-Marie-Èmile Lacan (1901–1981) Nancy Harding Ch23: Gregory Bateson (1904–1980) Mike Zundel Ch24: Hannah Arendt (1906–1975) Richard P. Nielsen Ch25: Simone De Beauvoir (1908–1986) Melissa Tyler Ch26: Maurice Merleau-Ponty (1908–1961) Wendelin Kuepers Ch27: Arne Naess (1912–2009) Carien De Jonge and Gail Whiteman Ch28: Paul Ricoeur (1913–2005) Henrika Franck Ch29: Harold Garfinkel (1917–2011) Nick Llewellyn Ch30: George Spencer-Brown (1923b) Tore Bakken Ch31: Gilles Deleuze (1925–1995) Anders R. Kristensen, Thomas Lopdrup-Hjorth, and Bent Meier Sørensen Ch32:Michel Foucault (1926–1984) Richard Weiskopf and Hugh Willmott Ch33: Luce Irigaray (1930b) Heather Höpfl Ch34: Michel Serres (1930b) Chris Steyaert Ch35: Peter Sloterdijk (1947b) Timon Beyes Ch36: Process and Reality Robert Cooper