Relational Practices, Participative Organizing2010

"This book focuses on the concept and role of relational practices as a way to understand and study processes of organizing. Relational practices are concieved as an ongoing, everyday process resulting in more participative ways of orgainizing. Participative orgainizing 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...