An examination of the possibility of developing an aesthetics of organization as a field of inquiry within organization studies. It explains how meaning and order become real in an organization through the concepts of postmodern thinkers and highlights methodological problems.

PART ONE: AESTHETIC THEORY The Aesthetic Approach in Organization Studies - Antonio Strati The Art Management of Aesthetic Organizing - Pierre Guillet de Monthoux PART TWO: AESTHETIC PROCESSES Ashes and Madness - Stephen Linstead The Play of Negativity and the Poetics of Organization The Aesthetics of Reticence - Heather H[um]opfl Collections and Recollections PART THREE: AESTHETICS AND MODES OF ANALYSIS `Cutting a Show′ - Brian Rusted Grounded Aesthetics and Entertainment Organizations Routine Pleasures - David Silverman The Aesthetics of the Mundane PART FOUR: CRAFTING AN AESTHETIC Observer Versus Audience - Hugo Letiche An-Aesthetics - Pippa Carter and Norman Jackson PART FIVE: AESTHETICS, ETHICS AND IDENTITY `Suaviter in modo, fortiter in re′ - Harro H[um]opfl Appearance, Reality and the Early Jesuits Resurfacing an Aesthetics of Existence as an Alternative to Business Ethics - Stephen Cummings PART SIX: RADICAL AESTHETICS AND CHANGE Cultivating an Aesthetic of Unfolding - Frank J Barrett Jazz Improvisation of a Self-organizing System The Rhythm of the Saints - Stewart Clegg Cultural Resistance, Popular Music and Collectivist Organization in Salvador, Bahia in Brazil