Brigitte Biehl
Biographic Data
| ID | 141813 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Brigitte Biehl |
| GIVEN NAMES | Brigitte |
| FAMILY NAME | Biehl |
| SIGNATURE | BIEHL B |
| AFFILIATIONS | SRH University Berlin |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-8778-5722 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 11 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 6 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 11 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2008 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Leadership development with reality TV
As a form of popular culture, film provides alternative female role models often missing from leadership development programs, while generating affect and offering aesthetic experiences, making it a valuable resource for identity work. This study draws on the global phenomenon of the Kardashian – Jenner family and uses their reality TV shows in a leadership development activity focused on shaping self-views as a potential leader. Participants eng…
Gender und digitales Arbeiten
Bibliographie: Biehl, Brigitte: Gender und digitales Arbeiten: Skizzen und Tagebücher als künstlerische Forschungsmethoden, ZDfm – Zeitschrift für Diversitätsforschung und -management, 2-2025, S. 229-234
Writing differently with film
The animated video “Leadership and Discourse” (original title: “Führung und Sprache”) (4:05 min) is produced by us (a filmmaker and a scholar) and stands as an artistic research contribution that is published on the GWO website ( https://bcove.video/3yBUL04 ). It links to and develops forms of “writing differently” in organization studies with moving images, colors, and sound. Drawing on feminist research, it visualizes how language creates a vie…
The Inner Louis Vuitton Circle
Studying luxury and conspicuous consumption in international settings presents unique challenges. Many aspects of luxury and conspicuous consumption cannot easily be put into words because they involve desires, aesthetics, and emotions, as well as taken-for-granted assumptions about social distinction and inequality. Drawing on Nicolai Eliseev's artistic inquiry into luxury consumption in Russia, this article proposes arts-based inquiry as a suit…
Luxury in Germany
The car is one of the few luxury items that historically is widely accepted in Germany, the land of "discreet consumption." This contribution draws on social science research, includes writings on popular culture, and presents examples from people and their cars in the media that give evidence of how luxury is increasingly emotionally charged, enriched, and negotiated. Cars were status symbols in Germany as a divided nation, with people in West G…
Atmospheres
"Women "in motion
Visual imagery provides aesthetic experiences for viewers, and viral advertising films address viewers’ experience of movement which has not been analysed. Developing visual analyses, this study uses phenomenological approaches and the concept of kinaesthetic empathy, defined as the ability of viewers to react to movements, also in film. It considers Chinese Wei movies (“microfilms” or viral advertising films) with reference to examples by Audi a…
Spirits, dancing in the flesh’
The body in organisations has received considerable scholarly attention, whilst the moving body and the ‘flesh’ has largely been overlooked. ‘Flesh’ for Merleau-Ponty connects the body and the world and supposes not an immobile, but moving body. We explore flesh as a movement-related, kinaesthetic phenomenon through a movement/dance-based method and interviews with professionals from a hospitality/service organisation. We apply the notion of ‘cho…
In the mix’
Relational leadership theory views leadership as a process of social construction in which participants engage through their bodily presence. The ‘in-between’ space connecting leaders and followers, however, is under-researched and has not been analysed with a focus on movement. With a phenomenological approach and dance theory, this study explores movement by considering techno DJs and their live performances to an audience in clubs. It analyses…
Four-to-the-Floor
The performance of women and men in organisations
Purpose This purpose of this paper is to draw on theatre theory to develop the notion of gender performativity in organisational contexts. It presents an interdisciplinary approach that is fruitful in an era of increasing organisational aestheticisation and persistent aesthetic discrimination. Design/methodology/approach Theatre theory and performance analysis is used to develop aesthetic approaches to gendered organizations. Findings The interpl…
Writing differently with film
The animated video “Leadership and Discourse” (original title: “Führung und Sprache”) (4:05 min) is produced by us (a filmmaker and a scholar) and stands as an artistic research contribution that is published on the GWO website ( https://bcove.video/3yBUL04 ). It links to and develops forms of “writing differently” in organization studies with moving images, colors, and sound. Drawing on feminist research, it visualizes how language creates a vie…
Luxury in Germany
The car is one of the few luxury items that historically is widely accepted in Germany, the land of "discreet consumption." This contribution draws on social science research, includes writings on popular culture, and presents examples from people and their cars in the media that give evidence of how luxury is increasingly emotionally charged, enriched, and negotiated. Cars were status symbols in Germany as a divided nation, with people in West G…
In the mix’
Relational leadership theory views leadership as a process of social construction in which participants engage through their bodily presence. The ‘in-between’ space connecting leaders and followers, however, is under-researched and has not been analysed with a focus on movement. With a phenomenological approach and dance theory, this study explores movement by considering techno DJs and their live performances to an audience in clubs. It analyses…
Four-to-the-Floor
The performance of women and men in organisations
Purpose This purpose of this paper is to draw on theatre theory to develop the notion of gender performativity in organisational contexts. It presents an interdisciplinary approach that is fruitful in an era of increasing organisational aestheticisation and persistent aesthetic discrimination. Design/methodology/approach Theatre theory and performance analysis is used to develop aesthetic approaches to gendered organizations. Findings The interpl…
Four-to-the-Floor
In the mix’
Relational leadership theory views leadership as a process of social construction in which participants engage through their bodily presence. The ‘in-between’ space connecting leaders and followers, however, is under-researched and has not been analysed with a focus on movement. With a phenomenological approach and dance theory, this study explores movement by considering techno DJs and their live performances to an audience in clubs. It analyses…
Spirits, dancing in the flesh’
The body in organisations has received considerable scholarly attention, whilst the moving body and the ‘flesh’ has largely been overlooked. ‘Flesh’ for Merleau-Ponty connects the body and the world and supposes not an immobile, but moving body. We explore flesh as a movement-related, kinaesthetic phenomenon through a movement/dance-based method and interviews with professionals from a hospitality/service organisation. We apply the notion of ‘cho…
"Women "in motion
Visual imagery provides aesthetic experiences for viewers, and viral advertising films address viewers’ experience of movement which has not been analysed. Developing visual analyses, this study uses phenomenological approaches and the concept of kinaesthetic empathy, defined as the ability of viewers to react to movements, also in film. It considers Chinese Wei movies (“microfilms” or viral advertising films) with reference to examples by Audi a…
The Inner Louis Vuitton Circle
Studying luxury and conspicuous consumption in international settings presents unique challenges. Many aspects of luxury and conspicuous consumption cannot easily be put into words because they involve desires, aesthetics, and emotions, as well as taken-for-granted assumptions about social distinction and inequality. Drawing on Nicolai Eliseev's artistic inquiry into luxury consumption in Russia, this article proposes arts-based inquiry as a suit…
Luxury in Germany
The car is one of the few luxury items that historically is widely accepted in Germany, the land of "discreet consumption." This contribution draws on social science research, includes writings on popular culture, and presents examples from people and their cars in the media that give evidence of how luxury is increasingly emotionally charged, enriched, and negotiated. Cars were status symbols in Germany as a divided nation, with people in West G…
Atmospheres
Writing differently with film
The animated video “Leadership and Discourse” (original title: “Führung und Sprache”) (4:05 min) is produced by us (a filmmaker and a scholar) and stands as an artistic research contribution that is published on the GWO website ( https://bcove.video/3yBUL04 ). It links to and develops forms of “writing differently” in organization studies with moving images, colors, and sound. Drawing on feminist research, it visualizes how language creates a vie…
Gender und digitales Arbeiten
Bibliographie: Biehl, Brigitte: Gender und digitales Arbeiten: Skizzen und Tagebücher als künstlerische Forschungsmethoden, ZDfm – Zeitschrift für Diversitätsforschung und -management, 2-2025, S. 229-234
Leadership development with reality TV
As a form of popular culture, film provides alternative female role models often missing from leadership development programs, while generating affect and offering aesthetic experiences, making it a valuable resource for identity work. This study draws on the global phenomenon of the Kardashian – Jenner family and uses their reality TV shows in a leadership development activity focused on shaping self-views as a potential leader. Participants eng…
Sociology (9 works) · Aesthetics (8 works) · Art (8 works) · Visual arts (8 works) · Psychology (6 works) · Political science (5 works) · Social Psychology (5 works) · Epistemology (4 works) · Management and Organizational Studies (4 works) · Social Psychology (4 works)