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Oxford Handbook of Process Philosophy and Organization Studies

Oxford Handbook of Process Philosophy and Organization Studies Book review Book review Edited by Jenny Helin, Tor Hernes, Daniel Hjorth and Robin Holt Oxford University Press Oxford Keyword Organization Review DOI 10.1108/QROM-12-2015-1343 I loved this Handbook and confess to having lost many hours reading it when I should by rights have been completing other chores. The book serves as an invaluable resource for organizational scholars who wish to engage creatively with process-based thinking in their own research. However, it also works at a more general level for those who just wish to read some intellectually stimulating writing about a variety of thinkers, from the Sixth Century BC to the current period, who the editors have assembled in this one volume as “process philosophers”. The book is no easy beginner’s guide to these featured process philosophers. It is a weighty tome, comprising 36 chapters and 638 pages in the hardback version (now also available in paperback). Most of the chapters do require some commitment and close attention to get to grips with the ideas being offered. The process philosophy perspective is not easy to absorb, nor to summarize, but loosely involves issues of becoming, multiplicity, instability and fluidity, ways of observing self-other relations and experiencing the world in http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Qualitative Research in Organizations and Management: An International Journal Emerald Publishing

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Publisher
Emerald Publishing
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Copyright © Emerald Group Publishing Limited
ISSN
1746-5648
DOI
10.1108/QROM-12-2015-1343
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Book review Book review Edited by Jenny Helin, Tor Hernes, Daniel Hjorth and Robin Holt Oxford University Press Oxford Keyword Organization Review DOI 10.1108/QROM-12-2015-1343 I loved this Handbook and confess to having lost many hours reading it when I should by rights have been completing other chores. The book serves as an invaluable resource for organizational scholars who wish to engage creatively with process-based thinking in their own research. However, it also works at a more general level for those who just wish to read some intellectually stimulating writing about a variety of thinkers, from the Sixth Century BC to the current period, who the editors have assembled in this one volume as “process philosophers”. The book is no easy beginner’s guide to these featured process philosophers. It is a weighty tome, comprising 36 chapters and 638 pages in the hardback version (now also available in paperback). Most of the chapters do require some commitment and close attention to get to grips with the ideas being offered. The process philosophy perspective is not easy to absorb, nor to summarize, but loosely involves issues of becoming, multiplicity, instability and fluidity, ways of observing self-other relations and experiencing the world in

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Qualitative Research in Organizations and Management: An International JournalEmerald Publishing

Published: Sep 12, 2016

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