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Part 1 Aesthetic Theory The Aesthetic Approach in Organization Studies Antonio Strati The Art Management of Aesthetic Organizing Pierre Guillet de Monthoux Part 2 Aesthetic Processes Ashes and Madness Stephen Linstead The Play of Negativity and the Poetics of Organization The Aesthetics of Reticence Heather H[um]opfl Collections and Recollections Part 3 Aesthetics and Modes of Analysis 'Cutting a Show' Brian Rusted Grounded Aesthetics and Entertainment Organizations Routine Pleasures David Silverman The Aesthetics of the Mundane Part 4 Crafting an Aesthetic Observer Versus Audience Hugo Letiche An-Aesthetics Pippa Carter and Norman Jackson Part 5 Aesthetics, Ethics and Identity 'Suaviter in modo, fortiter in re' Harro H[um]opfl Appearance, Reality and the Early Jesuits Resurfacing an Aesthetics of Existence as an Alternative to Business Ethics Stephen Cummings Part 6 Radical Aesthetics and Change Cultivating an Aesthetic of Unfolding Frank J Barrett Jazz Improvisation of a Self-organizing System The Rhythm of the Saints Stewart Clegg Cultural Resistance, Popular Music and Collectivist Organization in Salvador, Bahia in Brazil.