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Researching culture and organization; what possibilities?

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  • Hugo Letiche

    (LITEM - Laboratoire en Innovation, Technologies, Economie et Management (EA 7363) - UEVE - Université d'Évry-Val-d'Essonne - Université Paris-Saclay - IMT-BS - Institut Mines-Télécom Business School - IMT - Institut Mines-Télécom [Paris], Business University Nyenrode - Nyenrode Business Universiteit)

Abstract

Research into organizational culture seems to have come to a stillstand. In its heyday in the 1980s and 90s two crucial problems were voiced: (i) Is organizational culture really manageable? and (ii) Is organizational culture something an organization has (i.e. is it an identifiable variable) or something it is (i.e. is it an ontological prerequisite to the organization's very ‘being'?). This article proposes that Aby Warburg's ‘science without a name' where ‘culture' is identified with ‘ontology' is a way out of what seems to be the current impasse in organizational culture research. Warburg conceptualized ‘culture as ontology' as: M + P = N (Memory + Punctum = Notions that Abide). It will be argued that Viveiros de Castro's current ‘turn-to-ontology' in anthropology affirms the basic insights from Warburg's ‘science without a name' and is an inspiration for (re-)actualizing the M + P = N approach, with the understanding of ‘culture' is informed by a Deleuzian ontology of repetition and difference.

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  • Hugo Letiche, 2024. "Researching culture and organization; what possibilities?," Post-Print hal-04211074, HAL.
    • Handle: RePEc:hal:journl:hal-04211074
    DOI: 10.1080/14759551.2023.2256443
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