Some reflections on a phenomenology of organizations
ISBN
978-3-031-34711-5
Type
case review (law)
Date Issued
2023
Author(s)
Editor(s)
Carlos Belvedere
Alexis Emanuel Gros
Abstract
Husserl argued that the crisis of modern sciences was caused by the fact that they had taken their idealizations and abstractions, their mathematical and geometrical formulae, for bare truth and had forgotten that they originated in the lifeworld. Phenomenology therefore asks how phenomena in everyday life are experienced. How phenomena in the immediate environment such as things or human others are experienced has been well studied. But how are macro phenomena experienced? To explore this question, I choose the meso level of organizations. How are organizations experienced? First, Husserls eidetic analyses or ‘personalities of a higher order’ is considered. Second, Alfred Schutz’s alternative approach and the two poles of his lifeworld analysis are examined. On this basis, I ponder, third, the question of how a phenomenology of organizations can be developed: How is an organization experienced, and how is it interactionally constituted? Finally, I summarize and discuss my reflections and make some suggestions.
Language
English (United States)
Keywords
Organization
Subjective experience
phenomenology of organiization
HSG Classification
contribution to scientific community
Refereed
Yes
Book title
The Palgrave Handbook on Macrophenomenology and Social Theory
Publisher
Springer Nature
Publisher place
Cham, Switzerland
Start page
119
End page
140
Pages
22
Subject(s)
Division(s)
Contact Email Address
thomas.eberle@unisg.ch