ReThinking Management

1. Front Matter

   Pages I-VIII

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2. Introduction & Inspiration

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 9-9

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3. Introduction & Inspiration

   1. ReThinking Management

      • Wendelin Küpers, Stephan Sonnenburg, Martin Zierold

      Pages 11-30

   2. Cultural Turns: A Matter of Management?

      • Doris Bachmann-Medick

      Pages 31-55

4. Culture & Creativity

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 57-57

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5. Culture & Creativity

   1. Management as ‘Purity Apostle’: A Cultural-Anthropological Approach

      • Irma Rybnikova

      Pages 59-77

   2. Uncertainty and Opportunity as Drivers for Re-Thinking Management: Future-oriented organizations by Going Beyond a Mechanistic Culture in Organizations

      • Markus F. Peschl, Thomas Fundneider

      Pages 79-96

   3. Cultural Projects in 2030: A Performative Approach

      • Małgorzata Ćwikła

      Pages 97-114

   4. Transfer of Economic Concepts to Cultural Strategy – and Back?

      • Johan Kolsteeg

      Pages 115-129

   5. Are Artists the Better Managers? Perspectives on a Participatory Understanding of Cultural Management

      • Siglinde Lang

      Pages 131-148

6. Applications & Activities

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 149-149

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7. Applications & Activities

   1. The (Ante-)Narrative of G/growth in Management Consulting as Liminal Sense-Making Strategy

      • Silke Schmidt

      Pages 151-170

   2. Graceful Degradation and the Knowledge Worker

      • Dirk Nicolas Wagner

      Pages 171-189

   3. ReThinking Studying Marketing

      • Björn Bohnenkamp

      Pages 191-204

   4. Sustainability in the Media Industries: The Lack of Transparency and the “Sony Hack”

      • Christian Stiegler

      Pages 205-216

   5. On Belonging and Being Professional: In Pursuit of an Ethics of Sharing in Project Teams

      • Manuela Nocker

      Pages 217-236

8. Back Matter

   Pages 237-241

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This book assembles multi-disciplinary contributions to delve deeper into ReThinking Management. The first part provides some foundational considerations and inspirations. Further chapters offer more specific links to the arts and creativity sectors as well as empirical research and case reflections. ReThinking Management pursues the main idea that management theory is not merely a sub-discipline of economics, but rather a cross-disciplinary and critical field of research and practice, with a decidedly cultural perspective. While questioning the status and practices of conventional management, the book opens up for new understandings, turns and perspectives.

• Management Studies
• Management Practice
• Cultural Studies
• Social Sciences
• Humanities

• Prof Leadership & Org Studies, Karlshochschule International University, Karlsruhe, Germany

  Wendelin Küpers

• Karlshochschule International University , Karlsruhe, Germany

  Stephan Sonnenburg, Martin Zierold

The editors are professors at Karlshochschule International University in Karlsruhe, Germany.

Wendelin Küpers is Professor of Leadership and Organization Studies.

Stephan Sonnenburg is Professor for Branding, Creativity and Performative Management.

Martin Zierold is Professor for Arts Management and Cultural Studies.

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