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Emerald is pleased to announce the publication of a new volume in the series Advanced Series in Management on Relational Practices, Participative Organizing, edited by Chris Steyaert and Bart Van Looy.

Relational Practices, Participative Organizing

Editors: Chris Steyaert & Bart Van Looy

ISBN: 9780857240064                  

Pub. Date: 27/07/10

">http://listmanager.emeraldinsight.com/t/16855/5824507/4446/0/">This volume is available from our bookstore, as well as other online booksellers.

This book focuses on the concept and role of relational practices as a way to understand and study processes of organizing. Relational practices are conceived as an ongoing, everyday process resulting in more participative ways of organizing. Participative organizing works from and with the multiplicity of interactions inherent in processes of becoming; it reflects upon and experiments with how the diversity of participants and interactions can provide the potential for defining and redefining organizational "realities." Through reflective essays and empirical research examples, this book illustrates that relational practices of everyday organizational life are strongly entangled with emotional, embodied, and aesthetic processes.

The combination of these corollaries of participative organizing -- as an everyday, complex accomplishment, poised between intervention and invention, and between an affective and aesthetic ecology of belonging and becoming -- provides a new perspective on how the practice of organizing and the organizing of practice can be accomplished and managed in the years to come.

Praise for the volumes:

"The "relational turn", in a sense, has never happened in the social sciences since it has always been with us, at least since Heraclitus. It is an intellectual tradition that is being constantly enriched and renewed with original work such as this volume.  Further developing organizational research that takes processes seriously, authors, brought brilliantly together by Chris Steyaert and Bart Van Looy, refreshingly extend and renew our understanding of organizing by inviting us to see it as relational practice. We badly need a new vocabulary to make sense of our increasingly turbulent global times and splendid work like this helps us create it. It is like being given the words to name what we have hitherto felt but have been unable to discuss. Now, increasingly, we can. A highly illuminating and relevant volume"

Professor Haridimos Tsoukas

The Columbia Shipping Management Chair in Strategic Management, Department of Public and Business Administration, School of Economics and Management, University of Cyprus, Cyprus and Professor of Organization Studies, Warwick Business School, University of Warwick, UK

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