A ghostly encounter and the questions we might learn from it

Datos Bibliográficos

ID12721604
AutoresJustine Grønbæk Pors (0000-0001-7063-0786, Department of Management, Politics and Philosophy, Copenhagen Business School Frederiksberg C, Denmark, autor de correspondencia)
Año2021
Volumen27
Número4
Páginas289-301
Fecha de publicación2021-03-24
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessNo
TipoARTICLE
RevistaCulture and Organization (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 1475-9551 • E-ISSN: 1477-2760
EditorialTaylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/14759551.2021.1903009
OpenAlexW3146107670
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas7
Referencias citadas39

This paper takes a point of departure in a ghost story. Two social workers working in a community house in Copenhagen have both encountered a ghost. The first part of the paper wonders about the kinds of questions that are tempting to ask when listening to a ghost story as well as about how more careful questioning may allow organization studies to learn from ghostly encounters. Listening to what the two social workers have experienced, the paper identifies four sets of questions that the ghostly encounter may offer to organization studies, namely questions about inheritance, what it means to feel at home in an organization, temporality and affect. Thereafter, the paper discusses how organizational inquiries that are attentive to ghostly matters may look like

Active listening · Aesthetics · Affect (linguistics · Art · Epistemology · Inheritance (genetic algorithm · Point (geometry · Social organization · Social science · Sociology · Temporality · Communication · Education, Healthcare and Sociology Research · Management and Organizational Studies · Mental Health and Patient Involvement · Philosophy