Management as Dramatic Events

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13 - Management as Dramatic Events

Intense Decentred Organizing (IDO)

from Part III - New Ways of Organizing Work, Digitality and the Politics of Time

Published online by Cambridge University Press: 22 June 2023

François-Xavier de Vaujany and

Elen Riot

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François-Xavier de Vaujany ,

Robin Holt and

Albane Grandazzi

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François-Xavier de Vaujany: Affiliation:
Universite Paris Dauphine-PSL
Robin Holt: Affiliation:
Copenhagen Business School
Albane Grandazzi: Affiliation:
Grenoble Ecole de Management

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The pandemic has settled work and management situations in which collaborators more rarely meet. Beyond issues of maintaining a sense of co-presence, what seems to be more and more at stake is the dramatization and intensification of encounters on site but also the dramatization of remote narrative events in the future or the past. Collaborators, customers, need to meet physically at some point in a meeting room, and something need more than ever to happen at this moment. But beyond that, organizing needs also to have an intensity. Discussions around projects, problems, opportunities, happen in the flow of an open life, in a decentered way. Organizing events of the past and the future thus need to call each other, to intensively call each other in time. Managers need to build dispersed narrative events likely to intensively elaborate this dramatic resonance for people continuously coming in and out of ephemeral projects. This Intense Decentered Organizing (IDO) based on intense moments of co-presence and intensification of past and future events is a huge stake of our time. And more than ever, dramatization and theatralization appear as very important new regimes of historicity and eventfulness.

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dramatization intensity events temporality decentered management remote work theatralization Deleuze

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Information: Organization as Time
Technology, Power and Politics
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