Artistic interventions that tilt organizations : opportunities and leadership challenges

In artistic interventions artists are invited into organizations to work with management and employees on issues that concern them, such as generating ideas for new products and services, supporting skills development (e.g., leadership, communication, and creativity), or clarifying organizational identity. For this panel symposium we bring together international scholars who have studied various governance-related aspects of artistic interventions in organizations. They will address the kind of leadership that fosters or impedes the capacity of artistic interventions to tilt organizations, the roles of intermediaries who bridge between the world of the arts and the world of organizations, and the potential of artistic interventions for addressing conflict. The symposium will also include an example of a new approach to inquiry developed by an artist in the context of her PhD research to reflect on aesthetic ways of knowing in the process of addressing conflicts. Panelists are junior and senior scholars who have researched artistic interventions in Austria, France, Germany and Sweden from the perspective of the key stakeholders involved: the artist who uses her professional competencies in the process of intervening, the manager who is responsible for initiating an intervention, and the intermediary who works with employees and the artist to enable the intervention. After brief individual presentations the moderated discussion will offer session participants the opportunity to delve deeper with the panelists into experiences with different art forms and diverse cultural contexts, as well as to address difficulties that occur in artistic interventions about which little has been written

Artefacts of Management Academe: A Discourse Analysis of Temporality in Journal Titles

Drawing on discursive approaches of stylistic linguistics and linguistic analysis, we explore ways in which temporality is an invoked and represented aspect in management journal titles. We analyze the titles of scholarly articles from three interdisciplinary organizational journals published in 2000: Administrative Science Quarterly, Group and Organization Management, and the Journal of Management Studies. We note manifestations of temporality in punctuation and word choice, in research interest, the use of academic terminology or keywords, and in underlying assumptions of temporality or timelessness. We conclude that journal titles may tell us about the speech community of management scholarship manifest through discipline-based constructions of temporality, but little about the individual experience of temporality in contributing to such a construction