Dr Martyn Griffin martyn.a.griffin@durham.ac.uk
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Doing Free Jazz and Free Organizations, "A Certain Experience of the Impossible"? Ornette Coleman Encounters Jacques Derrida
Griffin, M.; Humphreys, M.; Learmonth, M.
Authors
M. Humphreys
M. Learmonth
Contributors
MA Griffin rsjf35@durham.ac.uk
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Abstract
Many scholars have attempted to make jazz relevant to an organizational audience. We seek to extend this literature by considering a more radical version of improvisation associated with the jazz musician Ornette Coleman. Inspired by an encounter between Coleman and the philosopher Jacques Derrida, we juxtapose the radical collective responsibility associated with Coleman’s Free jazz improvisation and Derridean deconstruction. We especially emphasize a phrase used by Derrida, ‘a certain experience of the impossible’ as an expression of a particular experience of doing management. The overall contribution of the paper is to explore the possibility of responding to issues within organizations in more participative and improvisational ways, without losing an appreciation of the inherent impossibility (perhaps even absurdity) of the managerial condition.
Citation
Griffin, M., Humphreys, M., & Learmonth, M. (2015). Doing Free Jazz and Free Organizations, "A Certain Experience of the Impossible"? Ornette Coleman Encounters Jacques Derrida. Journal of Management Inquiry, 24(1), 25-35. https://doi.org/10.1177/1056492614532316
Journal Article Type | Article |
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Online Publication Date | May 11, 2014 |
Publication Date | Jan 1, 2015 |
Deposit Date | Mar 17, 2014 |
Publicly Available Date | Mar 17, 2014 |
Journal | Journal of Management Inquiry |
Print ISSN | 1056-4926 |
Electronic ISSN | 1552-6542 |
Publisher | SAGE Publications |
Peer Reviewed | Peer Reviewed |
Volume | 24 |
Issue | 1 |
Pages | 25-35 |
DOI | https://doi.org/10.1177/1056492614532316 |
Keywords | Coleman, Collective improvisation, Deconstruction, Derrida, Free jazz, Organizational democracy. |
Public URL | https://durham-repository.worktribe.com/output/1458264 |
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Griffin, M. and Humphreys, M. and Learmonth, M. (2015) 'Doing Free jazz and free organizations, "a certain experience of the impossible"? Ornette Coleman encounters Jacques Derrida.', Journal of management inquiry., 24 (1). pp. 25-35. © The Author(s) 2014. Reprinted by permission of SAGE Publications.
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