Organizational aesthetics: Caught between identity regulation and culture jamming

Organization Science

Volumn 22, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 503-521

  Wasserman, Varda ^a   Frenkel, Michal ^b  

^a OPEN UNIVERSITY OF ISRAEL   (Israel)

^b HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

Author keywords

Culture jamming; Design; Identity regulation; Lefebvre; Organizational aesthetics; Organizational identity; Power and control; Resistance; Subjugation

Indexed keywords

EID: 79953154071     PISSN: 10477039     EISSN: 15265455     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1287/orsc.1100.0583     Document Type: Article

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