Management Decision: Volume 44 Issue 4

Poetry and the business life

The purpose of this paper is to look again at the ideas set out in the author's 1994 anthology, The Poetry of Business Life.

The language of management studies: poetical ways of saying

The purpose of this paper is to describe linkages between the techniques of poetical expression and the language used by scholars to communicate management practice.

Exploring culture with The Radio Ballads: using aesthetics to facilitate change

To demonstrate that aesthetic approaches, including poetry and music, can be used to help managers to explore issues of culture and its relation to decision making and strategic…

Metaphor, poetry, storytelling and cross‐cultural leadership

The purpose of this paper is to describe the theory and benefits of poetry, storytelling, and metaphor when applied to cross‐cultural leadership.

“Something made in language”: the poet's gift?

The purpose of this paper is to offer a meditation on what is especial, and especially difficult, about poetry in its guise as inspiration for, or expression of, efforts and…

Verse, voice and va va voom!: illuminating management processes through poetry

The purpose of this paper is to explore the power of using poetry as a process of critical reflection and organisational analysis in the management process. It intends to bring to…

The sweetest dreams that labor knows: Robert Frost and the poetics of work

The purpose of this paper is to use the work of Robert Frost to give insights into the diverse meanings that work holds in daily lived experience. It aims to use this analysis to…

Narratives of enterprise as epic tragedy

The pupose of this paper is to explore the power of narrative in management and enterprise research. It is inspired by Paul Ricoeur's philosophical understanding of the…

Poetry as a way to inspire (the management of) the research process

The purpose of the paper is to argue that poetry should be integrated in research to a much larger extent than it is today, where poetry (at best) is considered inferior to…

Finding one's voice: the poetry of reflective practice

The purpose of this paper is to reveal links between managers developing their reflective practice and the emergence of poetic expression in their writing.

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