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Heidegger and organization: Notes towards a new research programme

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The philosophy of Heidegger is matched in its influence on 20th century thinking perhaps only by that of Wittgenstein: yet it has been relatively sparsely utilized in the social sciences generally and more particularly in organization/management studies. The meaning of Being constitutes Heidegger's central problematic, to which all other aspects are related. Prominent among these is his poetic "fourfold": meaningful, "ecstatic" time instead of abstract, disenchanted time: the structure of care and belonging; the sacredness -- concealed or not -- of symbols; and the analytic of finiitude and death. There is also a second and more prosaic fourfold of Being, the elements of which are change, reason, values, and empirical knowledge -- all in their de-alienated, ontological interpretation, radically different from the conventional notions. On a basis of this double fourfold of Being, a new programme for organization and management research is tentatively proposed in this paper.

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  • Sköldberg, Kaj, 0. "Heidegger and organization: Notes towards a new research programme," Scandinavian Journal of Management, Elsevier, vol. 14(1-2), pages 77-102, March.
    • Handle: RePEc:eee:scaman:v:14:y::i:1-2:p:77-102
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