Massey University

Faculty Member, School of Management

Associate Professor (1.1.2011)

Business

About

Following a phenomenological orienation, especially Merleau-Ponty, my research focuses on developing an integral theory and applying it to a range of relevant organisational and management-related questions and phenomena. A strong feature of this research is that it pursues an inter- and transdisciplinary approach, while seeking to understand and contribute to specific problems of practices in organisation and management. As such, my research aims at integrating conceptual and theoretical as well as empirical investigations with practical and highly relevant issues and challenges.To this end, I have investigated phenomena like service quality, demotivation, implicit knowing, organisational learning, as well as embodiment, emotion and aesthetics in organisation and leader- and followership. Following my interest in integration and bridging to the practical world of business, I am developing an integral and practice-related concepts, which I call "inter-practice" and  “pheno-practice”.

My phenomenological research contributes to the ‘embodied turn’ in social science and in organisation and management studies. It identifies parameters, cutting-edge issues, processes and effects of embodiment, and emotion in relation to organisational and managerial phenomena. Moreover, the research aims at developing concepts for a re-integration of bodily and emotional dimensions and thereby enhances life in organisations. Specifically, the advanced phenomenology of Merleau-Ponty is used for advancing the discourses in organisation and management science theoretically and methodologically.

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