This book is about visual representations of organizations and businesspeople in paintings and photographs. Those representations are treated as qualitative data, which we seek to interpret in an attempt to unveil emergent themes describing underlying concepts of organizations and the features of businesspeople as seen by the artists. Adopting a research paradigm of organizational aesthetics with its key assumption about importance of sensual perceptions of organizational reality, the book offers a novel analysis of key business archetypes which are hidden in the objects of art. We source inductively from the tacit knowledge unveiled through what we call the parallel dialogues approach.
Connecting organizational studies perspective with visual art analysis the book targets the readers who are sensitive to aesthetic content and interested in venturing into non-standard and interdisciplinary research perspectives in management and organization studies.
About Authors
Barbara Fryzel, PhD, dr habil., associate professor at Jagiellonian University; an economist, a practitioner with multiple years of managerial experience in international corporations; a laureate of the Foundation for Polish Science with a past post-doc assignment at UCL; she is interested in organizational culture, corporate social responsibility and behavioural ethics; she was a PI in research grants funded by the National Science Centre Poland; she teaches Corporate Social Responsibility and International Management and is the author of papers and books including:
Boesso, G., Fryzel, B., & Ghitti, M. (2023). Corporate social responsibility and comparative capitalism frameworks: Evidence from the United States, Poland, and Italy. Corporate Social Responsibility and Environmental Management, 30(2), 531-547.
Fryzel, B. (2020). Ethics, Misconduct and the Financial Services Industry: Towards a Theory of Moral Business. Routledge.
Fryzel, B. (2011). Building stakeholder relations and corporate social responsibility. Springer.
Aleksander S. Marcinkowski, Ph.D., a sociologist; he lectures at the Jagiellonian University and specializes in Organizational Sociology. His expertise includes organizational culture, entrepreneurship, methodology of social sciences. He is the co-author of “Cultural Differences in Business Communication”, Jagiellonian University Press (2016) (with Budzanowska – Drzewiecka, M. oraz Motyl-Adamczyk, A.), a member of international research teams (V Framework Programme of the EU, Charles Stewart Mott Foundation) and a participant in the co-funded institutional projects (University of Economics, Krakow, and Canadian Urban Institute).