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Aesthetic Understanding and Tacit Knowledge

The group stresses that although organizational processes and dynamics are indeed social and collective constructs, they are not exclusively cognitive and derive instead from the knowledge-creating faculties of all human senses including aesthetic judgement.

Adopting an aesthetic approach to the study of organizational life implies to focus on those dynamics that are more closely bound-up with tacit knowledge, that is ways of knowing that are neither entirely verbal nor entirely cognitive.

Publications 2014

Gherardi, S., Strati, A.
2014, Administração e aprendizagem na prática, Elsevier Editora, Rio de Janeiro.

Strati, A.
2014, “Music and the Aesthetic Study of Organisational Life”, in N. Beech, C. Gilmore (eds.) Organising Music: Theory, Practice, Performance, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge.

Strati, A.
2014, “The Social Negotiation of Aesthetics and Organisational Democracy”, in P. Murphy, E. de La Fuente (eds.) Aesthetic Capitalism, Brill, Leiden.

Publications 2013

Gherardi, S., Merilainen, S., Strati, A., and Valtonen, A. (eds.)
2013, Special Issue on Body, Senses and Knowing in Organization, Scandinavian Journal of Management, vol. 29, n. 4.

Parolin, L.L.
2013, “Conoscenza Tacita, Geografia esplicita”, in Observer, Innovazione e Applicazioni nel sistema produttivo Italiano, Aprile/Maggio, Catalogo della Mostra, Triennale di Milano.

Parolin, L.L., Mattozzi A.
2013, “Sensible translations: sensitive dimension and knowledge within two craftsmen’s workplaces”, Scandinavian Journal of Management, vol. 29, n.4, pp. 353–366.

Piras, E.M., Zanutto A.
2013, “Representing organizational aesthetics: an open issue at every stage of field research”, in I. King, J. Vickery (eds.) Experiencing Organizations, Libri Publishing Ltd, Oxon.

Strati, A.
2013, “Becoming or Process: What Future for the Aesthetic Discourse in Organizations”, in I.W. King, J. Vickery (eds.) Experiencing Organisations: New aesthetic perspectives, Libri Publishing, Faringdon.

Publications 2012

Gherardi, S., Strati, A.
2012, Learning and Knowing in Practice-based Studies, Elgar, Cheltenham.

Parolin, L.L.
2012 “La localizzazione dei network innovativi” in P. Perulli (ed.) Nord. La città-regione globale, Il Mulino, Bologna, pp. 131-154.

Publications 2011

Strati, A.
2011, "Art Performance and Routine Work in Organizations", in A. Viliani (ed.) Anna Scalfi Eghenter KataLogos, Milano, SilvanaEditoriale, pp. 72-77.

Publications 2010

Corradi, G., Strati, A., Zamparelli, L.
2010, "Una visione estetica del cambiamento", in A. Zanutto (eds.) Trasformazioni. Identità istituzionale e organizzazione della ricerca: la Fondazione Bruno Kessler, FBK Press, Trento, pp. 137-169.

Selmi G.
2010, “In Discovery of Bodies: from Symbols to Perception” in M. Cruciani (eds.) Practices of Cognition. Recent Research in Cognitive Science, Uniservice, Trento, pp. 175-187.

Strati, A.
2010, Che cos'è l'estetica organizzativa, Carocci, Roma.

Strati, A.
2010, "Ordinary Beauty and Aesthetic Research in Organization Studies", in J. Przychodzen, F.E. Boucher, S. David (eds.) L’esthétique du beau ordinaire dans une perspective transdisciplinaire. Ni du gouffre ni du ciel, l’Harmattan, serie Epistémologie, Philosophie, Sciences, Paris.

Strati, A.
2010, "Aesthetic Understanding of Work and Organizational Life: Approaches and Research Developments", Sociology Compass, vol. 10, n. 4, pp. 880-893.

Publications 2009

Gherardi, S.
2009, "Practice? It’s a Matter of Taste!", Management Learning, vol. 40, n. 5, pp. 535-550.

Guillet de Monthoux, P., Strati, A.
2009, "Urban Insider Art: Reconnecting Enterprise to the City", in T. Beye, S. T. Krempl, A. Deufhard (eds.) Parcitypate: Art and Urban Space, Verlag Niggli AG, Sulgen/Zurig, pp. 361-384.

Strati, A.
2009, "Do you do beautiful things?: aesthetics and art in qualitative methods of organization studies", in D. A. Buchanan, A. Bryman (eds.) The Sage handbook of organizational research methods, Sage, London, pp. 230-245.

Publications 2008

Guillet De Monthoux, P., Strati, A.
2008, “Ponte dei sospiri: Bridging Art to Aesthetics in Organizational Memories. Introduction”, in P. Guillet de Monthoux, A. Strati, (ed.), special issue: Aesthetics / The Construction and Re-construction of Memories of Organizational Life, Aesthesis. International Journal of Art and Aesthetics in Management and Organizational Life, vol. 2, n. 1.

Strati, A.
2008, “L'insensibile Virtual Art Life", in Minghetti & The Living Mutants Society M. (eds.) Le Aziende In-Visibili, Libri Scheiwiller, Milano.

Strati, A.
2008, Estetica e organizzazione, Mondadori, Milano.

Strati, A.
2008, “"Dietro le quinte": la ricerca qualitativa sulla dimensione estetica dell'organizzazione", in R. Cipriani (eds.) L’analisi qualitativa. Teorie, metodi, applicazioni, Armando, Roma.

Strati, A.
2008, "Aesthetics in the Study of Organizational Life", in D. Barry, H. Hansen (eds.) The SAGE Handbook of New Approaches in Management and Organization, Sage, London.

Zanutto, A.
2008, "Representing Organizational Aesthetics: an Open Jssue at Every Stage of Field Research", in P. Guillet de Monthoux, A. Strati, (eds.), special issue: Aesthetics / The Construction and Re-construction of Memories of Organizational Life, Aesthesis. International Journal of Art and Aesthetics in Management and Organizational Life, vol. 2, n. 1.

Publications 2007

Piras, E. M.
2007, “Il ritmo dell’organizzare”, in A. Strati (eds.) La ricerca qualitativa nelle organizzazioni. La dimensione estetica, Carocci, Roma.

Piras, E. M.
2007, “Estetica e an-estetica organizzativa”, in A. Strati (eds.) La ricerca qualitativa nelle organizzazioni. La dimensione estetica, Carocci, Roma.

Piras, E. M., Toscano, G.
2007, “Uno sguardo alla letteratura”, in A. Strati (eds.) La ricerca qualitativa nelle organizzazioni. La dimensione estetica, Carocci, Roma.

Rossi, P.
2007, “Le estetiche celate-disvelate della routine”, in A. Strati (eds.) La ricerca qualitativa nelle organizzazioni. La dimensione estetica, Carocci, Roma.

Rossi, P.
2007, “Passione e comunicazione on line: l’analisi estetica nell’etnografia virtuale”, in A. Strati (eds.) La ricerca qualitativa nelle organizzazioni. La dimensione estetica, Carocci, Roma.

Scalfi, A.
2007, “La performance: strumentAzione di comprensione organizzativa”, in A. Strati (eds.) La ricerca qualitativa nelle organizzazioni. La dimensione estetica, Carocci, Roma.

Strati, A. (a cura di)
2007, La ricerca qualitativa nelle organizzazioni. La dimensione estetica, Carocci, Roma.

Strati, A.
2007, “Introduzione”, in A. Strati (a cura di) La ricerca qualitativa nelle organizzazioni. La dimensione estetica, Carocci, Roma.

Strati, A.
2007, Organização e estética, Editora FGV, Rio de Janeiro, Brasile.

Strati, A.
2007, "Sensible Knowledge and Practice-based Learning", Management learning, vol. 38, n. 1, pp. 61-77.

Strati, A.
2007, "Frammenti’ del discorso estetico sull’organizzare", Sviluppo e organizzazione, vol. 1, pp. 36-52.

Strati, A.
2007, "Sensations, impressions and reflections on the configuring of the aesthetic discourse in organizations", Aesthesis. International Journal of art and aesthetics in management and organizational life, vol. 1, n. 1, pp. 14-22.

Strati, A.
2007, "Der ästhetische Ansatz in der Organisationsforschung", in M. Markowski, H. Wöbken, (eds.) Oeconomenta - Wechselspiele zwischen Kunst und Wirtschaft, Kulturverlag Kadmos, Berlin.

Strati, A.
2007 "Aesthetic Understanding of Organizational Life", in K. S. Minaham, J. W. Cox (eds.) The Aesthetic Turn in Management, Ashgate, Aldershot. 2007.

Strati, A.
2007, "Aesthetics in Teaching Organization Studies", in M. Reynolds, R. Vince (eds.) The Handbook of Experiential Learning and Management Education, Oxford university press, Oxford.

Strati, A.
2007, "Introducing Vincent Dégot's 'Portrait of the Manager as an Artist’”, Aesthesis. International Journal of art and aesthetics in management and organizational life, vol. 1, n. 2, pp. 4-5.

Strati, A.
2007, "Aesthetics of Organization", in S. Cleggs, J. Bailey (eds.) International Encyclopedia of Organization Studies, Sage, London.

Zanutto, A.
2007, “Quando i ricercatori si muovono in gruppo: armonie e dissonanze sul piano dell’estetica”, in A. Strati (eds.) La ricerca qualitativa nelle organizzazioni. La dimensione estetica, Carocci, Roma.

Publications 2006

Strati, A.
2006, "Keynote plenary speach: Sensations, impressions and reflections on the configuring of the aesthetic discourse in organizations ", Contribution to "Third Art of Management and Organisation Conference", Cracovia, Polonia, 5-8 September 2006.

Strati, A.
2006, "Esthétique et organisation", Contribution to "Séminaire "post- Cerisy" (Connaissance - Activité – Organisations)", Paris, ESSEC, 17 October 2006.

Publications 2005

Strati, A.
2005, "Organizational Artifacts and the Aesthetic Approach", in M. Pratt, A. Rafaeli (eds.) Artifacts and organizations, Lawrence Erlbaum, Mahwah, pp. 23-39.

Strati, A.
2005, "Performance: lezione di metodo / Performance: Lesson of Method", Work: Art in Progress, v. IV, n. 12, pp. 59-63.

Strati, A.
2005, "Designing Organizational life as 'Aesth-hypertext' : Insights to transform business practice", Organization, v. 12, n. 6, pp. 919-923.

Strati, A.
2005, "A Status for Aesthetics and Organizational Development", Contributo a CAL Seminar, Center for Art and Leadership, Copenhagen Business School, 26 May 2005.

Strati, A.
2005, "Aesthetics, practice and organization", Contributo a Flow Seminar - University of Stockholm, Gattières, 21-25 July 2005.

Strati, A.
2005, "Art, aesthetics and Leadership in Organizational Micropractices", Contributo a 21st EGOS Colloquium, Berlin, 30 June - 2 July 2005.

Publications 2004

Strati, A.
2004, Esthétique et organisation, Presses de l'Université Laval, Sainte-Foy, Québec.

Publications 2003

Gherardi, S., Strati, A. (a cura di)
2003, The Iron Cage. Dialogues from Max Weber about Loris Cecchini's Installation “Density Spectrum Zone 1.0”, Performance by Anna Scalfi, Faculty of Sociology, University of Trento, 2 April, Dvd/vhs, 19'.

Strati, A.
2003, "L’estetica nell’insegnamento della sociologia dell’organizzazione", Contributo a La gabbia di ferro, Faculty of Sociology, University of Trento, 2 April.

Strati, A.
2003, "Knowing in practice: aesthetic understanding and tacit knowledge", in S. Gherardi, D. Nicolini, D. Yanow (eds.) Knowing in organizations: a practice-based approach, Sharpe, Armonk, NY, pp. 53-75.

Strati, A.
2003, "Organizational space and the aesthetic approach", Contributo a Research methods in organization studies, University of Roskilde, Center for Business & Company Studies, 15 May.

Strati, A.
2003, "Arte e sociologia dell’organizzazione", Contributo a L’opera di Piero Manzoni, Università di Trento, 30 May.

Strati, A.
2003, "Aesthetics and art as dalogical understanding of organizational life", Contributo a EIASM 2. Workshop on Aesthetics, art and management - Towards New Fields of Flow, Gattières, 20-23 July.

Strati, A.
2003, "Plenary: insights from the session on "Challenging established educational patterns" in management learning", The role of humanities in the formation of the new European elite, Venezia, 10-11-12 September.

Publications 2002

Guillet de Montoux, P., Strati, A. (eds.)
2002, "Organising Aesthetics", special issue of Human Relations, vol. 55, n. 7.

Guillet de Montoux, P., Strati, A. (eds.)
2002, "Aesthetics and Management – Business Bridges to Art", special issue of Consumption, Markets and Culture, vol. 5, n. 1.

Strati, A.
2002, "Aesthetics and Thereabouts: The Corporeality of Organizational Practices", Management Learning, vol. 33, n. 2, pp. 261-4.

Strati, A.
2002, "Organization and Aesthetics", Contributo a Mini-Conference on Exploring the Future Dynamic of Workplace, New Lanark (UK), 14-18 March.

Strati, A.
2002, "Comments on knowing, learning and practice in organizational contexts", Contributo a Knowing, Language and Practice. A one day workshop with Aaron Cicourel and Anni Borzeix, Trento, 24 April.

Strati, A.
2002, "Aesthetics, tacit knowldge and organization as hypertext", in R. Boland, F. Collopy (eds.) Atti del convegno Managing as Designing: Creating a New Vocabulary for Management Education and Research, Cleveland, Ohio, USA, 14-15 June.

Strati, A.
2002, "Negotiating Organizational Aesthetics", Contributo a Subtheme 17 on Organizational Aesthetics, XVII EGOS Colloquium - Barcelona, 4-6 July.

Strati, A.
2002, "In vece del mainstream: estetica, tecnologia e workplace studies", paper presented at the AIS-ELO Meeting, Cagliari, 25-26 October.

Publications 2001

Strati, A.
2001, "Aesthetic Understanding and Tacit Knowledge in Organizational Learning". Contributo a One day conference: Knowing in Practice, Università di Trento, 28 February.

Strati, A.
2001, "Aesthetics, tacit knowledge and symbolic understanding: Going beyond the pillars of cognitivism in organization studies"., Contributo a The Odyssey of Organizing, EGOS - 17th Colloquium, Lyon, 5-7 July.

Strati, A.
2001, "Aesthetic understanding and knowing in practice". Contributo a Workshop on Organizational Learning, Ecole Polytechnique - Centre de Recherche en Gestion, Paris, 1 October.

Strati, A.
2001, "Il modello del teatro e l'economia". Contributo a Fuori Scena: il teatro di fronte al mondo contemporaneo, Genova - Palazzo della Borsa, 18-20 October.

Publications 2000

Strati, A.
2000, "The Aesthetic Approach in Organization Studies", in H. Hopfl, S. Linstead (eds.) The Aesthetic of Organization, Sage, London, pp. 13-34.

Strati, A.
2000, "Estetica, conoscenza tacita e apprendimento organizzativo", Studi organizzativi : rivista di studi e ricerche sui processi e i sistemi organizzativi, Nuova Serie, vol. 3, n. 2.

Strati, A.
2000, "Putting People in the Picture: Art and Aesthetics in Photography and Understanding of Organizational Life", Organization studies : an international multidisciplinary journal devoted to the study of organizations, organization, organizing and the organized in, of and between societies, vol. 21, pp. 53-69.

Publications 1999-1995

Strati, A.
1999, Organization and Aesthetics, Sage, London.

Strati, A.
1997, "Organization as Hypertext: A Metaphor from Visual Cultures", Studies in cultures, organizations and societies, vol. 3, n. 2, p. 307-324.

Strati, A.
1996, "Organizations Viewed through the Lens of Aesthetics", Organization : the interdisciplinary journal of organization, theory and society, p. 209-218.

Strati, A.
1995, "Aesthetics and Organizations without Walls", Studies in cultures, organizations and societies, 1995, v. 1, n. 1, p. 83-105.

Publications 1994-1990

Strati, A.
1993, "Studiare l'estetica del lavoro e delle organizzazioni", in D. De Masi (a cura di) Verso la formazione del post-industriale, Angeli, Milano, p. 312-315.

1993, "Estetica e organizzazione", Sviluppo e organizzazione, n. 137, p. 51-61.

Strati, A.
1992, "Aesthetic Understanding of Organizational Life", Academy of management review, vol. 17, n. 3, p. 568-581.

Strati, A.
1990, "Aesthetics and Organizational Skill", in B. A. (a cura di) Organizational Symbolism, Gruyter, Walter de, & Co, Berlin, p. 207-222.