Performing the organization: Organization theatre and imaginative life as physical presence
Publication Type
Book Chapter
Publication Date
1-2008
Abstract
The so-called dramaturgical metaphor has been a popular and productive framework within which to analyse organizational and social life for some time. Whilst it has utilized two broad approaches – Kenneth Burke's (1945, 1969a, b) dramatism and Erving Goffman's work on dramaturgy (1959) – the great majority of this work has drawn on the latter framework with the consequence that the notion of theatre has been used metaphorically. Such a focus has resulted in a general failure to recognize that life is not liketheatre but that it is theatre.
Discipline
Organizational Behavior and Theory
Research Areas
Organisational Behaviour and Human Resources
Publication
SAGE handbook of new approaches in management and organization
Editor
D. Barry & H. Hansen
ISBN
9781412912181
Identifier
10.4135/9781849200394.n69
Publisher
SAGE
City or Country
London
Citation
CLARK, Timothy Adrian Robert.
Performing the organization: Organization theatre and imaginative life as physical presence. (2008). SAGE handbook of new approaches in management and organization.
Available at: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/lkcsb_research/6318
Additional URL
https://doi.org/10.4135/9781849200394.n69