De Cock, CJL (2000) Essal: Reflections on Fiction, Representation, and Organization Studies: An Essay with Special Reference to the Work of Jorge Luis Borges. Organization Studies, 21 (3). pp. 589-609. DOI https://doi.org/10.1177/0170840600213005
De Cock, CJL (2000) Essal: Reflections on Fiction, Representation, and Organization Studies: An Essay with Special Reference to the Work of Jorge Luis Borges. Organization Studies, 21 (3). pp. 589-609. DOI https://doi.org/10.1177/0170840600213005
De Cock, CJL (2000) Essal: Reflections on Fiction, Representation, and Organization Studies: An Essay with Special Reference to the Work of Jorge Luis Borges. Organization Studies, 21 (3). pp. 589-609. DOI https://doi.org/10.1177/0170840600213005
Abstract
This essai examines how Borges' narrative fiction may contribute to a reconceptualization of organizational interpretation and representation, and thus complexify the thinking of both organizational theorists and practitioners. This exploration is situated against the background of an increasing awareness of the fictionality of organizational life, and a sensitivity towards the representational practices employed by organizational scholars as they seek to construct persuasive accounts of the theory and practice of organization. By pushing standard interpretative and representational practices to their limits, we can reveal their arbitrariness (and sometimes absurdity), and thus open up new positions of intelligibility. In the denatured contexts of the digital economy, Borges' fantastic fictions appear closer to temporal experience than the authoritative discourses with which mainstream organizational discourse has accustomed us.
Item Type: | Article |
---|---|
Uncontrolled Keywords: | Borges; fiction; representation; discourse; narrative approaches; digital economy |
Subjects: | H Social Sciences > HD Industries. Land use. Labor > HD58.7 Organizational behavior, change and effectiveness. Corporate culture |
Divisions: | Faculty of Social Sciences Faculty of Social Sciences > Essex Business School |
SWORD Depositor: | Unnamed user with email elements@essex.ac.uk |
Depositing User: | Unnamed user with email elements@essex.ac.uk |
Date Deposited: | 22 Jan 2016 14:46 |
Last Modified: | 24 Oct 2024 15:51 |
URI: | http://repository.essex.ac.uk/id/eprint/15811 |