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Relationality and Phenomenological Organizational Studies

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2006
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dc.abstract.plRobert Cooper has developed a discourse of organizing, centered on relationality. It is a discourse grounded in third generation phenomenology and pointing to fourth generation phenomenology. Phenomenology in its first (Husserl) and second (Merleau-Ponty) generations developed the epoché (procedure of investigation) whereby research transcended the natural attitude and forged contact between the researched and the researcher. Progressively logocentric 're-presenting' was transcended in (third generation) phenomenology via empathy and intersubjective awareness. Phenomenological 'research' has become the creation of dialogic and empatic identity. Despite the potential richness of such research, the ethics of shared awareness and involvement continues to pose major problems of consequentiality. If research is based on empathy and relationship, how does the researcher do justice to relationality? Without a clear link between awareness and action, it is very difficult for phenomenology to develop as a dialogic form of organizational studies. Ontological insight into the pre-structures of the life-world, however philosophically fundamental, will not suffice. Phenomenological research understood as a complex adaptive system (CAS), is (potentially) an alternative that respects relationality and honors the ethics of empathy. But truly radical relationality - for instance, embodied in the (very) flesh of life --- (in fourth generation phenomenology), challenges the very possibility of organizational studies.
dc.contributor.affiliationUniversity of Humanist Studies, The Netherlands
dc.contributor.authorHugo Letiche
dc.date.accessioned2025-07-25T16:47:40Z
dc.date.available2025-07-25T16:47:40Z
dc.date.issued2006
dc.date.published2006
dc.description.issue3
dc.description.physical7-18
dc.description.volume5
dc.identifier.issn1532-5555
dc.identifier.urihttps://repozytorium.kozminski.edu.pl/handle/item/3103
dc.languageen
dc.relation.ispartofTamara: Journal for Critical Organization Inquiry
dc.relation.pages7-18
dc.rightsCC-BY-4.0
dc.subjectphenomenology
dc.subjectnatural attitude
dc.subjectflesh of life
dc.subjectempathy
dc.subjectlogocentric
dc.subjectcomplex adaptive systems (CAS)
dc.subjectrelationality
dc.subjectEdmund Husserl
dc.subjectMichel Henry
dc.subjectRobert Cooper
dc.subtypeOriginal
dc.title

Relationality and Phenomenological Organizational Studies

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