Skip to main content
Home » Resources » Book Reviews » Organization and Newness: Discourses and Ecologies of Innovation in the Creative University
Book Reviews January 21, 2019

Organization and Newness:  Discourses and Ecologies of Innovation in the Creative University

Bernadette McNary-Zak, Rhodes College

books-organization-and-newness-discourses-and-ecologies-of-innovation-in-the-creative-university.jpeg
Author
Peters, Michael A.; Weber, Susanne Maria (eds.)
Date Reviewed
June 17, 2021
Reviewer
Bernadette McNary-Zak
Organization and Newness: Discourses and Ecologies of Innovation in the Creative University offers a view from a perspective of organizational education on the ‘new’, which analyzes the production of the ‘new’ within organizations, in relation to the inherent learning processes. Fundamental for this perspective is the question about the changeability of organizations, especially when these are not viewed only as instrumentally established regulatory structures but rather as social constructs. The contributions of this volume contour the complexity of newness in organization and form a bridge from critical analysis of imperative discourse of newness, to programmatic pleas of an organizational pedagogy, which is normative in nature, for a reconfiguration of organizational and societal relationships. The issue at hand shows how tightly the question about newness is constitutively woven into the self-conception of organizational education and pedagogy. (From the Publisher)