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I Got The Business Blues” : What Organizations Can Learn From Popular Music

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  • Bertrand Agostini

    (ICN Business School, CEREFIGE - Centre Européen de Recherche en Economie Financière et Gestion des Entreprises - UL - Université de Lorraine)

  • Sybille Persson

    (ICN Business School, CEREFIGE - Centre Européen de Recherche en Economie Financière et Gestion des Entreprises - UL - Université de Lorraine)

  • Paul Shrivastava

    (ICN Business School, Concordia University [Montreal])

Abstract

As the link between sustainable development and art begins to shed a new light on organizational conceptions, this article considers popular music, and especially blues music. The conceptual process of the paper is to highlight the philosophical roots of Western aesthetics in order to propose a counterpoint based on popular and ordinary living sustained by popular music. By analyzing blues music as both a durable support and a natural process of everyday experience, we open a door to Chinese philosophy and psychology for HR Management based on the body-mind-spirit alignment. This perspective generates new and creative avenues for research in HR management, organizational theory, and business education. The major issue is then how to sensitize the ears of HRM so that it offers ‘vital nourishment' in the workplace at a time when the cost of the depressive state of many an employee has become a proven risk.

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  • Bertrand Agostini & Sybille Persson & Paul Shrivastava, 2016. "I Got The Business Blues” : What Organizations Can Learn From Popular Music," Post-Print hal-01512791, HAL.
    • Handle: RePEc:hal:journl:hal-01512791
    DOI: 10.1016/j.jclepro.2016.03.093
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    1. Fikret Korhan Turan & Saadet Cetinkaya, 2022. "The role of aesthetics and art in organizational sustainability: A conceptual model and exploratory study in higher education," Sustainable Development, John Wiley & Sons, Ltd., vol. 30(1), pages 83-95, February.

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