Resumé
Originalsprog | Engelsk |
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Tidsskrift | Management & Organizational History |
Vol/bind | 9 |
Udgave nummer | 2 |
Sider (fra-til) | 166-183 |
ISSN | 1744-9359 |
DOI | |
Status | Udgivet - 2014 |
Emneord
- Decision
- Luhmann
- Membership
- Organizational play
- Potentiality
- Semantic history
- Uncertain futures
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Playful Membership : Embracing an Unknown Future. / Åkerstrøm Andersen, Niels; Pors, Justine Grønbæk.
I: Management & Organizational History, Bind 9, Nr. 2, 2014, s. 166-183.Publikation: Bidrag til tidsskrift › Tidsskriftartikel › Forskning › peer review
TY - JOUR
T1 - Playful Membership
T2 - Embracing an Unknown Future
AU - Åkerstrøm Andersen, Niels
AU - Pors, Justine Grønbæk
PY - 2014
Y1 - 2014
N2 - This article studies the implications of current attempts by organizations to adapt to a world of constant change by introducing the notion of playful organizational membership. To this end we conduct a brief semantic history of organizational play and argue that when organizations play, employees are expected to engage in playful exploration of alternative selves. Drawing on Niklas Luhmann's theory of time and decision-making and Gregory Bateson's theory of play, the article analyses three empirical examples of how games play with conceptions of time. We explore how games represent an organizational desire to reach out - not just to the future - but to futures beyond the future presently imaginable. The article concludes that playful membership is membership through which employees are expected to develop a surplus of potential identities and continuously cross boundaries between real and virtual social worlds.
AB - This article studies the implications of current attempts by organizations to adapt to a world of constant change by introducing the notion of playful organizational membership. To this end we conduct a brief semantic history of organizational play and argue that when organizations play, employees are expected to engage in playful exploration of alternative selves. Drawing on Niklas Luhmann's theory of time and decision-making and Gregory Bateson's theory of play, the article analyses three empirical examples of how games play with conceptions of time. We explore how games represent an organizational desire to reach out - not just to the future - but to futures beyond the future presently imaginable. The article concludes that playful membership is membership through which employees are expected to develop a surplus of potential identities and continuously cross boundaries between real and virtual social worlds.
KW - Decision
KW - Luhmann
KW - Membership
KW - Organizational play
KW - Potentiality
KW - Semantic history
KW - Uncertain futures
U2 - 10.1080/17449359.2014.891796
DO - 10.1080/17449359.2014.891796
M3 - Journal article
VL - 9
SP - 166
EP - 183
JO - Management & Organizational History
JF - Management & Organizational History
SN - 1744-9359
IS - 2
ER -