Embodiment

Laure Cabantous and Nora Meziani

Chapter 2.10 in Elgar Encyclopedia of Strategy as Practice, 2025, pp 142-145 from Edward Elgar Publishing

Abstract: The concept of embodiment is inextricably linked to the notion of the body, and specifically refers to the corporeal materiality of the body. The refrain is now well established: the body has been absent from organisation studies for a considerable period of time despite its obvious presence in organisations. The body's omnipresence is so obvious that it has become invisible because it has been taken for granted. Notwithstanding the above, a growing corpus of literature on the body and embodiment in management and organisational studies has emerged over the past 20-30 years, with a notable intensification in recent years. This entry seeks to define the concept of embodiment by delineating the diverse research traditions and methodologies employed by organisation scholars to account for the embodied dimension in organisational processes. It also examines how Strategy-as-Practice researchers have approached the notion of embodiment in their research.

Keywords: Embodiment; Senses; Materiality; Emotions; Body work; Multisensory ethnography (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2025
ISBN: 9781035315956
References: Add references at CitEc
Citations:

Downloads: (external link)
https://www.elgaronline.com/doi/10.4337/9781035315963.00044 (application/pdf)

Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:elg:eechap:22511_37

Ordering information: This item can be ordered from
http://www.e-elgar.com

Access Statistics for this chapter

More chapters in Chapters from Edward Elgar Publishing
Bibliographic data for series maintained by Jack Sweeney ().