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Hjorth D, Strati A, Drakopoulou Dodd S, Weik E. Organizational Creativity, Play and Entrepreneurship: Introduction and Framing. ORGANIZATION STUDIES 2018. [DOI: 10.1177/0170840617752748] [Citation(s) in RCA: 28] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/16/2022]
Affiliation(s)
- Daniel Hjorth
- Copenhagen Business School, Denmark and Nottingham Trent University, UK
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- University of Trento, Italy and École polytechnique, France
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Abstract
This paper analyses, from the perspective of the sociology of knowledge, the specific way in which rationalist utilitarianism has influenced both organizational practices and the experts' way of thinking about organizations from the birth of the discipline until the rise of organizational symbolism in the 1970s. The hegemony of the rationalist paradigm—it is argued—led the scientific community to a sort of collective repression of the expressive dimensions of organizational life. The forms of this repression and the expedients adopted to reduce the cognitive dissonance created by this kind of blindness are explored.
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