The Oxford Handbook of Phenomenologies and Organization Studies

François-Xavier de Vaujany, Full Professor of Management and Organization Studies, Université Paris Dauphine-PSL (DRM),Jeremy Aroles, Senior Lecturer in Organisation Studies, University of York,Mar Perézts, Full Professor, Emlyon Business School

François-Xavier de Vaujany is full professor of Management and Organization Studies at Université Paris Dauphine-PSL (DRM). His research deals with new ways of working and organizing and their relationships with digitality. He draws on process philosophy and hermeneutics to conduct in-depth qualitative research of entrepreneurial processes, cinematographic organizing, open science practices, and historical intertwining of management with cybernetics.

Jeremy Aroles is a Senior Lecturer in Organisation Studies at the University of York. His research currently focuses on the exploration of new ways of working and the management of cultural institutions.

Mar Pérezts is a Full Professor at OCE Research Center of Emlyon Business School (France). She pursues transversal, embodied, and meta-theoretical research on organizations, with a strong critical and philosophical focus, relying on qualitative and ethnographic methodologies.

Preface, Hartmut Rosa
Phenomenologies and Organization Studies: Organizing Through and Beyond Appearances, François-Xavier de Vaujany, Jeremy Aroles, and Mar Pérezts
Part I. Phenomenologies and Beyond: Origins, Extensions, and Discontinuities
1. Tracing Phenomenological Sensibilities in Continental and Post-Continental Philosophies, Jean-Baptiste Fournier
2. Husserl: Reason and Emotions in Philosophy, Elen Riot
3. Heidegger, Organization, and Care, Robin Holt
4. Gaston Bachelard and the Phenomenology of the Imagination, Michèle Charbonneau
5. From Phenomenology to a Metaphysics of History: The Unfinished Odyssey of Merleau-Ponty, François-Xavier de Vaujany
6. Phenomenology and the Multidimensionality of the Body, Erol Čopelj and Jack Reynolds
7. The Self in the World: The Hermeneutic Phenomenology of Paul Ricoeur, Paul Savage and Henrika Franck
8. Phenomenology and the Political Philosophy of Hannah Arendt, Lucie Chartouny
9. Experience as an Excess of Givenness: The Post-Metaphysical Phenomenology of Jean-Luc Marion, Sara Mandray
10. Extending and Discontinuing Phenomenology with Michel Henry, Eric Faÿ and Ghislain Deslandes
11. Foucault and Phenomenology, a Tense and Complex Relation: From Anti-Phenomenology to Post-Phenomenology, Aurélie Leclercq-Vandelannoitte
Part II. The Experience of Organizing: Embodiment, Robots, and Affects in a Digital World
12. On the Way to Experience with the Phenomenological Venture of Management and Organization: A Literature Review, Leo Bancou, François-Xavier de Vaujany, Mar Pérezts, and Jeremy Aroles
13. 'In the Future, as Robots Become More Widespread': A Phenomenological Approach to Imaginary Technologies in Healthcare Organizations, Jaana Parviainen and Anne Koski
14. Max Scheler's Phenomenology of Personalism and Paradox: Implications for Leadership Relations, Leah Tomkins
15. At the Crossroad of Phenomenology and Feminist New Materialism: A Diffractive Reading of Embodiment, Silvia Gherardi
16. Bachelard's Backdoor to Happy Business School Phenomenology, Pierre Guillet de Monthoux, Matilda Dahl, and Jenny Helin
17. Exploring the Role of Bodies and Gestures in Management with Merleau-Ponty, Albane Grandazzi
18. Queering Organizational Appearances Through Reclaiming the Erotic, Mar Pérezts and Emmanouela Mandalaki
19. Animal Ontologies: Phenomenological Insights for Posthumanist Research, Géraldine Paring
20. 'How about a hug?': Aesthetic of Organizational Experience and Phenomenologies, Antonio Strati
Part III. Events and Organizing: Acceleration, Disruptions, and Decentering of Management
21. Is the Phenomenal Difference of the Entrepreneurial Event Opening on its Repetition?, Xavier Deroy
22. The Process of Depth: Temporality as Organization in Cinematographic Experience, François-Xavier de Vaujany
23. Organization as Autopoietic "Understanding"? Whitehead, Merleau-Ponty, and the Speculative Promise of a Process Phenomenology for MOS, Andrew Kirkpatrick
24. What Silence Does: An Arendtian Analysis of Quaker Meeting Practices, Lucas Introna, Donncha Kavanagh, and Martin Brigham
25. Tuning Into Things: Sensing the Role of Place in an Emerging Alternative Urban Community, Boukje Cnossen
26. Embodied Perception and the Schemed World: Merleau-Ponty and John Dewey, Sun Ning
27. Enframing and Transformation: Serequeberhan's African Phenomenological Approach, Abraham Olivier
28. Phenomenology in Japan: A Brief History with Focus on the Reception in Applied Areas, Genki Uemura
Part IV. Togetherness, Memory, and Instruments: Algorithms, Gestures, and Marginality in Organizing
29. Organ-izing Embodied Practices of Common(-Ing) and Enfleshed Con-Vivialities: Perspectives on the Tragicomedy of the Commons, Wendelin Küpers
30. It's All Method: Schmitz and Neo-Phenomenology, Lydia Jørgensen
31. Squatters and the Willing Suspension of Disbelief: Tales from the Royal Occupy, Mickael Peiro
32. Listening to the Sounds of the Algorithm: Some Remarks on Phenomenology and the Social Studies of Finance, Marc Lenglet
33. Producing Organizational Space: Buddhist Temples as Coworking Spaces, Tadashi Uda
34. Organizing Research Excellence: A Pheno-Ethnomethodological Approach to Study Organizational Identity at Research Centres in the Global South, Juan Felipe Espinosa-Cristia and Nicolás Trujillo-Osorio
Part V. Conclusion
35. Between Being and Becoming: Appearances and Subjectivities of Organizing, François-Xavier de Vaujany, Jeremy Aroles, and Mar Pérezts
Afterword: Why and How Phenomenology Matters to Organizational Research, Haridimos Tsoukas
Postscript: An Anthropologist Lands in Phenomenology, Tim Ingold