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Tasting the Difference: A Relational-Epistemic Approach to Aesthetic Collaboration in Haute Cuisine

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  • Nathalie Louisgrand

    (EESC-GEM Grenoble Ecole de Management)

  • Gazi Islam

    (EESC-GEM Grenoble Ecole de Management, IREGE - Institut de Recherche en Gestion et en Economie - USMB [Université de Savoie] [Université de Chambéry] - Université Savoie Mont Blanc)

Abstract

Collaboration during aesthetic production is inherently complex, involving difficult-to-articulate aspects of aesthetic judgement as well as relational questions that are inherently power-laden. Particularly in situations where actors do not share background conditions or judgement criteria, aesthetic collaboration poses conceptual and practical challenges. Through an in-depth case study of a French haute cuisine programme in Shanghai, China, we propose a relational-epistemic approach to aesthetic collaboration, in which aesthetic judgement and relational positioning mutually shape how chef trainees come to understand their creative products. Specifically, aesthetic collaboration was shaped by whether participants understood their mutual relationships as antagonistic or integrative, and whether they considered aesthetics as a matter of objective knowledge, cultural tradition or co-construction. Based on our results, we explore the implications of the relationalepistemic approach in understanding organizational aesthetics, especially in the context of the culture industries and haute cuisine specifically.

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  • Nathalie Louisgrand & Gazi Islam, 2020. "Tasting the Difference: A Relational-Epistemic Approach to Aesthetic Collaboration in Haute Cuisine," Grenoble Ecole de Management (Post-Print) hal-02887699, HAL.
    • Handle: RePEc:hal:gemptp:hal-02887699
    DOI: 10.1177/0170840620935745
    Note: View the original document on HAL open archive server: https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-02887699
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    1. Margot Leclair, 2022. "The atmospherics of creativity: affective and spatial materiality in a designer’s studio," Post-Print hal-03552332, HAL.

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