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Play at work: continuation, intervention and usurpation

In English

Författare

Summary, in English

The interest in organizational play is growing, both in popular business discourse and organization studies. As the presumption that play is dysfunctional for organizations is increasingly discarded, the existing positions may be divided into two camps; one proposes 'serious play' as an engine for business and the other insists that work and play are largely indistinguishable in the postindustrial organization. Our field study of a design and communications company in Denmark shows that organizational play can be much more than just functional to the organization. We identify three ways in which workplaces engage in play: play as a (serious) continuation of work, play as a (critical) intervention into work and play as an (uninvited) usurpation of work.

Publiceringsår

2012

Språk

Engelska

Sidor

81-97

Publikation/Tidskrift/Serie

Organization

Volym

19

Issue

1

Dokumenttyp

Artikel i tidskrift

Förlag

SAGE Publications

Ämne

  • Business Administration

Nyckelord

  • creative industries
  • organizational play
  • serious play
  • work and play

Status

Published

ISBN/ISSN/Övrigt

  • ISSN: 1350-5084