Organisational Space and Beyond: The Significance of Henri Lefebvre for Organisation Studies
English | ISBN: 1138236403 | 2018 | 326 pages | PDF |
Through the focus on organizational space, using the
reception and significance of the seminal work on the subject by
sociologist Henri Lefebvre, this book demonstrates why and how
Lefebvre's work can be used to inform and elaborate organisational
studies, especially in view of the current interest in the
"socio-material" dimension of organisations.
As the "spatial turn"
in organisational research exposed the importance of spatial design in
inducing power and cultural relations, Lefebvre's perspective has become
an inspiring, theoretical framework. However, Organisational Space and
Beyond explores how Lefebvre’s work could be of a much wider relevance,
especially given his profound theoretical engagement with diverse
schools of philosophical and sociological thought, including Nietzsche,
Marx, Sartre and Foucault.