The inevitability of liminality in organising

Nuno Guimaraes da Costa () and Miguel Pina E Cunha
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Nuno Guimaraes da Costa: ICN Business School, CEREFIGE - Centre Européen de Recherche en Economie Financière et Gestion des Entreprises - UL - Université de Lorraine
Miguel Pina E Cunha: NOVA SBE - NOVA - School of Business and Economics - NOVA - Universidade Nova de Lisboa = NOVA University Lisbon

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Abstract: We explore the role of liminality, an anthropological and sociological concept, in the context of organisations. We argue that this transition-like condition of being in between is an outcome of organising, which emerges from an ongoing process of structuration. Through the identification of rites and community-like instances in the different processes that compose the act of organising we are able to retrieve what we call liminal elements. We conclude by describing in detail these liminal elements in order to provide a basis for generalisation beyond the examples covered in the paper to include any process that occurs in the context of organisations.

Keywords: liminality; organising; structuration; organisation as process; rites; communitas; liminal elements; liminal personae. (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2013
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Published in International Journal of Management Concepts and Philosophy, 2013, 7 (1), pp.47-63. ⟨10.1504/IJMCP.2013.052831⟩

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DOI: 10.1504/IJMCP.2013.052831

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