BIC SubjectsOccupational & industrial psychology

Creative Confluence

Johan F. Hoorn

Creative Confluence is a highly original work, building bridges between physics, biology, technology, economy, organizations, neuropsychology, literature, arts, and cultural history. It is an attempt to explain the process of creativity as a universal principle of nature, cutting through the… read more

[Linguistic Approaches to Literature, 16] 2014. xv, 320 pp.

Interacting with Objects: Language, materiality, and social activity

Edited by Maurice Nevile, Pentti Haddington, Trine Heinemann and Mirka Rauniomaa

Objects are essential for how, together, people create and experience social life and relate to the physical environment around them. Interacting with Objects: Language, materiality, and social activity presents studies which use video recordings of real-life settings to explore how objects feature… read more

[Not in series, 186] 2014. vii, 393 pp.

Multiactivity in Social Interaction: Beyond multitasking

Edited by Pentti Haddington, Tiina Keisanen, Lorenza Mondada and Maurice Nevile

Doing more than one thing at the same time – a phenomenon that is often called ‘multitasking’ – is characteristic to many situations in everyday and professional life. Although we all experience it, its real time features remain understudied. Multiactivity in Social Interaction: Beyond multitasking… read more

[Not in series, 187] 2014. vii, 289 pp.

Organic Creativity and the Physics Within

Mea M.M. Lowcre

A group of international top scientists from a diversity of disciplines sat together for five days with artists, designers, and entrepreneurs to develop a trans-disciplinary theory of creativity. Organic Creativity and the Physics Within assumes that creativity is a quality of nature visible in… read more

[Not in series, 179] 2013. x, 59 pp. | open access

The Spatial Construction of Organization

Tor Hernes

An important challenge to organization theory is to search for constructs that explain how contexts for work emerge, evolve, persist and change. This book explores the concept of "space" as representing a wide variety of contexts. Organization as a process, as distinguished from organization as an… read more

[Advances in Organization Studies, 12] 2004. xx, 165 pp.

Narratives We Organize By

Edited by Barbara Czarniawska and Pasquale Gagliardi

This book is a collection of texts that explore the analogy between organizing and narrating, between action and text. The raw material of everyday organizational life consists of disconnected fragments, physical and verbal actions that do not make sense when reported with simple chronology.… read more

[Advances in Organization Studies, 11] 2003. x, 276 pp.