ABSTRACT

The visual constitutes an increasingly significant element of contemporary organization, as post-industrial societies move towards economies founded on creative and knowledge-intensive industries. The visual has thereby entered into almost every aspect of corporate strategy, operations, and communication; reconfiguring basic notions of management practice and introducing new challenges in the study of organizations.

This volume provides a comprehensive insight into the ways in which organizations and their members visualize their identities and practices and how they are viewed by those who are external to organizations, including researchers.

With contributions from leading academics across the world, The Routledge Companion to Visual Organization is a valuable reference source for students and academics interested in disciplines such as film studies, entrepreneurship, marketing, sociology and most importantly, organizational behaviour.

chapter |16 pages

Introduction

The visual organization

part |60 pages

Thinking visually about organization

chapter |13 pages

The visual organization

Barthesian perspectives

chapter |18 pages

The method of juxtaposition

Unfolding the visual turn in organization studies

chapter |13 pages

The limits of visualization

Ocularcentrism and organization

part |96 pages

Visual methodologies and methods

chapter |14 pages

Navigating the scattered and fragmented

Visual rhetoric, visual studies, and visual communication

chapter |16 pages

Visual sociology and work organization

An historical approach

part |91 pages

Visual identities and practices

chapter |17 pages

Visual workplace identities

Objects, emotion and resistance

chapter |13 pages

Social media and organizations

chapter |15 pages

Simulated realities

(Or, why boxers and Artificial Intelligence scientists do mostly the same thing)

part |40 pages

Visual representations of organization