Antonio Strati
Biographic Data
| ID | 155332 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Antonio Strati |
| GIVEN NAMES | Antonio |
| FAMILY NAME | Strati |
| SIGNATURE | STRATI A |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Trento |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-1195-8842 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 15 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 46 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 15 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1990 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Aesthetics and the paradoxical supremacy of ethics in organizational life
What I am illustrating and discuss in this brief essay is an organizational paradox, that of the ethical censorship of the aesthetic dimension, raised during ordinary practices of organizational communication and related to my recent photographic book Riviera Mediterranea. This paradox stimulated reflections on the intimate link between the aesthetic and ethical dimensions of organizational life. My argument is that we can critically explore the …
Research Handbook of Responsible Management
Heather’s poetic touch alive in our memory
International audience
Aesthetic Understanding of Work and Organizational Life
The aesthetic dimension of work and organizational life attracted the attention of organization scholars during the 1980s and 1990s, and its study burgeoned at the turn of the new millennium. There are today four main approaches to the study of organizational aesthetics: (i) the archaeological approach which privileges the symbolic dimension of aesthetic understanding; (ii) the empathic‐logical approach which seeks to grasp the pathos of organiza…
Sensible Knowledge and Practice-based Learning
The article shows that there is a close connection between knowing and learning in practice and sensible knowledge. It does so by referring to field research conducted in a variety of workplaces: a sawmill, a roofing firm and a secretarial office. The concluding remarks argue for the re-construction of organizational discourse through aesthetic understanding, because this is an approach which brings out the ‘don't-know-what’ characteristic of a l…
The Passion for Knowing
Designing Organizational Life as 'Aesth-hypertext'
Introduction
I lay my ten fingers on the keyboard and imagine music. My fingers copy this mental image as I press the keys, but this copy is very inexact: a feedback emerges between idea and tactile/motor execution. This feedback loop repeats itself many times, enriched by provisional sketches: a mill wheel turns between my inner ear, my fingers and the marks on the paper. The result sounds completely different from my initial conceptions: the anatomical real…
Modernity/art and Marketing/aesthetics—a Note on the Social Aesthetics of Georg Simmel
(2002). Modernity/art and Marketing/aesthetics—a Note on the Social Aesthetics of Georg Simmel. Consumption Markets & Culture: Vol. 5, No. 1, pp. 1-11
Organization and Aesthetics
Organization and aesthetics shows how aesthetic understanding of organizations can extend our knowledge and sharpen our insights into many of the micro-processes that shape organizational behaviour
Organizational Symbolism as a Social Construction
This article describes organizational symbolism from a sociology of knowledge perspective and considers both the theoretical and extra-theoretical bases of the symbolic approach. It illustrates the distinctive principles of the symbolic approach with respect to other methods used in the study of organizations, the concepts on which it is based, and the organizational issues on which it has shed significant light. Symbolist studies of organization…
Organization as hypertext
This article argues that visual cultures exert a profound influence at the level of the metaphorical conceptions of organizational life. It investigates two metaphors of the organization which have their roots in visual cultures: the metaphor of taking a photograph of the organization, and the metaphor of the organization as a hypertext. The diversity of these two metaphors in their conceptualisation of organizational life is illustrated, as well…
Organizations Viewed through the Lens of Aesthetics
Aesthetics and organizations without walls
This paper is based on ethnographic research into European art photography conducted at the end of the 1980s. Its conceptual framework is the aesthetic approach to organization studies. It shows that art photography is an organization without walls. This is a new concept that may prove very fruitful to the study of organizations. It analyses the kind of organizations that are invisible to the observer, while at the same time it questions the conv…
Active Employment Policies in Europe
In this paper the authors examine the theoretical framework of the set of laws, provisions, regulations, recommendations and pronouncements that embody the active employment policies in Europe. They illustrate that the theoretical framework is influenced in its attribution of meaning and significance to its subject matter by its relationship with the definitions of employment. To do this they provide an analysis of: the collective agencies, the c…
Introduction
I lay my ten fingers on the keyboard and imagine music. My fingers copy this mental image as I press the keys, but this copy is very inexact: a feedback emerges between idea and tactile/motor execution. This feedback loop repeats itself many times, enriched by provisional sketches: a mill wheel turns between my inner ear, my fingers and the marks on the paper. The result sounds completely different from my initial conceptions: the anatomical real…
The Passion for Knowing
Research Handbook of Responsible Management
Organizational Symbolism as a Social Construction
This article describes organizational symbolism from a sociology of knowledge perspective and considers both the theoretical and extra-theoretical bases of the symbolic approach. It illustrates the distinctive principles of the symbolic approach with respect to other methods used in the study of organizations, the concepts on which it is based, and the organizational issues on which it has shed significant light. Symbolist studies of organization…
Aesthetic Understanding of Work and Organizational Life
The aesthetic dimension of work and organizational life attracted the attention of organization scholars during the 1980s and 1990s, and its study burgeoned at the turn of the new millennium. There are today four main approaches to the study of organizational aesthetics: (i) the archaeological approach which privileges the symbolic dimension of aesthetic understanding; (ii) the empathic‐logical approach which seeks to grasp the pathos of organiza…
Modernity/art and Marketing/aesthetics—a Note on the Social Aesthetics of Georg Simmel
(2002). Modernity/art and Marketing/aesthetics—a Note on the Social Aesthetics of Georg Simmel. Consumption Markets & Culture: Vol. 5, No. 1, pp. 1-11
Active Employment Policies in Europe
In this paper the authors examine the theoretical framework of the set of laws, provisions, regulations, recommendations and pronouncements that embody the active employment policies in Europe. They illustrate that the theoretical framework is influenced in its attribution of meaning and significance to its subject matter by its relationship with the definitions of employment. To do this they provide an analysis of: the collective agencies, the c…
Aesthetics and organizations without walls
This paper is based on ethnographic research into European art photography conducted at the end of the 1980s. Its conceptual framework is the aesthetic approach to organization studies. It shows that art photography is an organization without walls. This is a new concept that may prove very fruitful to the study of organizations. It analyses the kind of organizations that are invisible to the observer, while at the same time it questions the conv…
Organizations Viewed through the Lens of Aesthetics
Organization as hypertext
This article argues that visual cultures exert a profound influence at the level of the metaphorical conceptions of organizational life. It investigates two metaphors of the organization which have their roots in visual cultures: the metaphor of taking a photograph of the organization, and the metaphor of the organization as a hypertext. The diversity of these two metaphors in their conceptualisation of organizational life is illustrated, as well…
Organizational Symbolism as a Social Construction
This article describes organizational symbolism from a sociology of knowledge perspective and considers both the theoretical and extra-theoretical bases of the symbolic approach. It illustrates the distinctive principles of the symbolic approach with respect to other methods used in the study of organizations, the concepts on which it is based, and the organizational issues on which it has shed significant light. Symbolist studies of organization…
Organization and Aesthetics
Organization and aesthetics shows how aesthetic understanding of organizations can extend our knowledge and sharpen our insights into many of the micro-processes that shape organizational behaviour
Introduction
I lay my ten fingers on the keyboard and imagine music. My fingers copy this mental image as I press the keys, but this copy is very inexact: a feedback emerges between idea and tactile/motor execution. This feedback loop repeats itself many times, enriched by provisional sketches: a mill wheel turns between my inner ear, my fingers and the marks on the paper. The result sounds completely different from my initial conceptions: the anatomical real…
Modernity/art and Marketing/aesthetics—a Note on the Social Aesthetics of Georg Simmel
(2002). Modernity/art and Marketing/aesthetics—a Note on the Social Aesthetics of Georg Simmel. Consumption Markets & Culture: Vol. 5, No. 1, pp. 1-11
Designing Organizational Life as 'Aesth-hypertext'
Sensible Knowledge and Practice-based Learning
The article shows that there is a close connection between knowing and learning in practice and sensible knowledge. It does so by referring to field research conducted in a variety of workplaces: a sawmill, a roofing firm and a secretarial office. The concluding remarks argue for the re-construction of organizational discourse through aesthetic understanding, because this is an approach which brings out the ‘don't-know-what’ characteristic of a l…
The Passion for Knowing
Aesthetic Understanding of Work and Organizational Life
The aesthetic dimension of work and organizational life attracted the attention of organization scholars during the 1980s and 1990s, and its study burgeoned at the turn of the new millennium. There are today four main approaches to the study of organizational aesthetics: (i) the archaeological approach which privileges the symbolic dimension of aesthetic understanding; (ii) the empathic‐logical approach which seeks to grasp the pathos of organiza…
Heather’s poetic touch alive in our memory
International audience
Research Handbook of Responsible Management
Aesthetics and the paradoxical supremacy of ethics in organizational life
What I am illustrating and discuss in this brief essay is an organizational paradox, that of the ethical censorship of the aesthetic dimension, raised during ordinary practices of organizational communication and related to my recent photographic book Riviera Mediterranea. This paradox stimulated reflections on the intimate link between the aesthetic and ethical dimensions of organizational life. My argument is that we can critically explore the …
Sociology (13 works) · Management and Organizational Studies (9 works) · Aesthetics (8 works) · Computer Science (8 works) · Philosophy (8 works) · Art (6 works) · Epistemology (6 works) · Psychology (6 works) · Philosophy (5 works) · Visual Culture and Art Theory (4 works)