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.