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Organizational Images

I am very passionate about using the arts to nurture reflections about organization and management theory. Inspired by the Sociological Images website, I have created these "Organizational Images," an archive (always expanding) of artistic work that which have helped me theorize and research organizations. I hope others might find it inspiring as well!

Bureaucracy & Formal Organization
  • Carl Hammoud: Bureaucracy and Formal Organization
  • Jan Banning 'Bureaucratics': The Universality of Bureaucracy
  • Punctuation in Novels: Formal Elements and the Order of Text
  • Sonata for Page Turner and Piano: An Example of 'Silent' Structures 
  • Shared Spaces and Traffic Signs: Formal Control Mechanisms in Emergent Coordination
  • Thomas Kneubühler Offices
  • Niral Parekh Typography Mail
  • Thomas Demand: Empty Offices
  • Peter Funch: Commuters and Routines

Social & Organizational Theory
(Classic) Organizational Scholarship
  • Max Richter Vivaldi Re-Composed: Giving New Voice to the Classics
  • Tatiane Freitas 'New Old Chair': The Endurance of Old Structures in New Ones
  • Oscars Best Director/Movie: The Intersection of Occupational/Organization
General Theory
  • Thomas Wolf: A Goffmanian Photographer
  • Routines and their Effortful Accomplishment (Mark Formanek - Standard Time)
  • A Garfinkel Breaching Experiment by a Comedian
  • Process/Practice in Photography (Alfred Edgerton)
  • Thierry Cohen Darkener Cities: Translation (Latour)​
  • Social Construction (Herlinde Koelbl: Clothes Make People)

Ethnographic & Qualitative Methods
Ordinary/Extraordinary
  • Oliver Curtis - Volta-face (Photographs): the Ordinary Behind the Extra-Ordinary
  • David Monacchi - Musique concrète: Ordinary Sounds into Extraordinary Ones
  • Sakir Gokcebag and the Art of Everyday Objects: Turning Ordinary into Extra-Ordinary ​
Observation
  • Soshei Nishino - Diorama Maps: Re-assembling the Social From the Bottom Up
  • Byron Kim - Sunday Paintings: The Importance of Attentive Observation 
  • Sleep No More: Finding a Story in the Complexity of Life
  • Thomas Struth - Museum Photographs: (Second-Hand) Observation
Analyzing and Writing
  • Cindal Vidal - Gravitant (Paintings): Composite and Multi-Sited Stories
  • Markus Brunetti - Facades (Photographs): The Composite Nature of Ethnography
  • Radcliffe Things Organized Neatly: Coding and Reverse Engineering 
  • Gay Talese (Writing): ​Insights from Non-Fiction for Ethnographic Writing
  • Foer's Tree of Codes: On The Poverty of Tabular Data Presentations 
  • Queneau - Exercises in Style: On Multiple Registers for Writing


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