What's next? (Un)learning Nothingness and Non-events in Management Education

François-Xavier de Vaujany
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François-Xavier de Vaujany: DRM - Dauphine Recherches en Management - Université Paris Dauphine-PSL - PSL - Université Paris Sciences et Lettres - CNRS - Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique

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Abstract: Most management and organization theories focus on the full existence and finitude of things. They deal with fullness and the full happening of things. Both organizing and managing mean fully producing something, doing something, or giving value to something. A good manager should follow what is happening and, even better, make things fully happen. But in everyday life, our managerial capitalism makes the world more and more impatient, problematic and incomplete, full of more and more holes, interruptions and voids that permeate experience. This is true both emotionally (as frustration), narratively (as cliffhangers and suspense) and materially (as creative destruction scars our earth). In this essay for ML's 55th anniversary, I argue for a process-oriented perspective on managerial emptiness and incompleteness based on three core interwoven negative processes - representation, narration and materialization. I explain how each of these processes contributes to a nexus of incompleting events at the heart of ma

Keywords: Nothingness; Interruptions; Incompleting events; Negative ontology; Culture of possibilities; Whitehead; Managerial education; Non-events (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2025
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Published in Management Learning, 2025, 56 (1), pp.63 - 74. ⟨10.1177/13505076241284347⟩

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DOI: 10.1177/13505076241284347

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