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This chapter introduces the section on Aesthetics of Management. First, the chapter delineates aesthetics of management as a field of enquiry. Second, three sequences are suggested to read the chapters: historical, tour-de-champs, and pedagogical. Finally, a brief summary is given of the ten chapters in this section of the Handbook.
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Vandekerckhove, W. (2022). Aesthetics of Management: An Introduction. In: Neesham, C., Reihlen, M., Schoeneborn, D. (eds) Handbook of Philosophy of Management. Handbooks in Philosophy. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-76606-1_39
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