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DrIleanaStigliani

Business School

Associate Professor of Design and Innovation
 
 
 
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+44 (0)20 7594 9228i.stigliani

 
 
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298Business School BuildingSouth Kensington Campus

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Publications

Citation

BibTex format

@article{Baldessarelli:2022:10.5465/annals.2020.0198,
author = {Baldessarelli, G and Stigliani, I and Elsbach, K},
doi = {10.5465/annals.2020.0198},
journal = {The Academy of Management Annals},
title = {The aesthetic dimension of organizing: a review and research agenda},
url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.5465/annals.2020.0198},
volume = {10},
year = {2022}
}
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TY  - JOUR
AB  - Organizational aesthetics comprises a way of understanding organizational life based on immediate sensory reactions (i.e., sight, hearing, taste, smell, and touch) to the material components of organizing (e.g., artifacts, physical settings, and material practices). Despite the growing interest in the topic, however, research is fragmented across management areas. To advance scholarly knowledge in this field, we reviewed the empirical work dealing with aesthetics. Our review yields two major insights. First, we identify three perspectives on the role of aesthetics. Scholars have treated aesthetics as (1) a directed stimulus (that elicits product evaluation and work organization), (2) a knowledge tool (that is entwined with creative work and everyday tasks), or (3) an open-ended outcome (that serves as a personal experience). Second, we find that each perspective highlights emotional and cognitive mechanisms through which aesthetics is implicated in organizing. Building on these two insights, our review offers an integrative framework that provides a comprehensive picture of the state of the field, illuminating the work of aesthetics in and around organizations and providing avenues for future studies.
AU  - Baldessarelli,G
AU  - Stigliani,I
AU  - Elsbach,K
DO  - 10.5465/annals.2020.0198
PY  - 2022///
SN  - 1941-6067
TI  - The aesthetic dimension of organizing: a review and research agenda
T2  - The Academy of Management Annals
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.5465/annals.2020.0198
UR  - https://journals.aom.org/doi/full/10.5465/annals.2020.0198
UR  - http://hdl.handle.net/10044/1/91530
VL  - 10
ER  -
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