Daniel Hjorth

A critical exploration of how passion can create more effective organizations, Passionately Transforming Management restores curiosity and joy to management education. Climate change and the rapidly shifting balance of global geo-political power are changing the conditions within which organizations operate, and big data and AI are altering the criteria for a successful manager. By critically disrupting existing literature on management in education, O’Doherty and Hjorth reimagine a syllabus for management and organization by drawing on research that shows how successful businesses and entrepreneurs are those that have followed their private passions. Authored by leading members of the management and organization studies community with a wealth of experience, this concise book exposes the diverse potential of management in contributing to business success by foregrounding how passion – be it for science fiction, computer games, drum and bass, poetry or football – is vital to become a reflexive and effective manager. This is the ideal book for researchers in search of playful alternatives and advances in management theory and practice, original teachings in organization studies and critical management studies, and regenerative university course outlines and reading lists.

A critical exploration of how passion can create more effective organizations, Passionately Transforming Management restores curiosity and joy to management education. Climate change and the rapidly shifting balance of global geo-political power are changing the conditions within which organizations operate, and big data and AI are altering the criteria for a successful manager. By critically disrupting existing literature on management in education, O’Doherty and Hjorth reimagine a syllabus for management and organization by drawing on research that shows how successful businesses and entrepreneurs are those that have followed their private passions. Authored by leading members of the management and organization studies community with a wealth of experience, this concise book exposes the diverse potential of management in contributing to business success by foregrounding how passion – be it for science fiction, computer games, drum and bass, poetry or football – is vital to become a reflexive and effective manager. This is the ideal book for researchers in search of playful alternatives and advances in management theory and practice, original teachings in organization studies and critical management studies, and regenerative university course outlines and reading lists.

When re-imagining, re-thinking, and re-writing entrepreneurship in this book, the authors have come to the conclusion that the concept that describes it most precisely is one that signifies a process that includes imagining, seductively describing, playfully organizing, political agility in navigating common sense, and business sensibility before possible commerce. This book develops a process theory of entrepreneurship by exploring how key concepts in such a theory – affect, desire, assemblage – allow us to think about entrepreneurship differently. This makes a significant contribution to bridging the fields of entrepreneurship and organization studies. Using literature and literary characters and their stories as main sources, entrepreneurship research is here revitalized, and the result provides students of entrepreneurship processes with new conceptual opportunities. The book is also a contribution to a multi-disciplinary research tradition in social sciences more broadly where humanities is a key “conversation partner”. Undergraduates in entrepreneurship, PhD students, and entrepreneurship and organization scholars will find this to be a refreshing renewal of research into entrepreneurship and the creation of organization.

When re-imagining, re-thinking, and re-writing entrepreneurship in this book, the authors have come to the conclusion that the concept that describes it most precisely is one that signifies a process that includes imagining, seductively describing, playfully organizing, political agility in navigating common sense, and business sensibility before possible commerce. This book develops a process theory of entrepreneurship by exploring how key concepts in such a theory – affect, desire, assemblage – allow us to think about entrepreneurship differently. This makes a significant contribution to bridging the fields of entrepreneurship and organization studies. Using literature and literary characters and their stories as main sources, entrepreneurship research is here revitalized, and the result provides students of entrepreneurship processes with new conceptual opportunities. The book is also a contribution to a multi-disciplinary research tradition in social sciences more broadly where humanities is a key “conversation partner”. Undergraduates in entrepreneurship, PhD students, and entrepreneurship and organization scholars will find this to be a refreshing renewal of research into entrepreneurship and the creation of organization.

Lärd, underhållande och folkbildande. Dagens NyheterBestsellerförfattaren och missbrukaren Hans Fallada, som enligt förintelseskildraren Primo Levi skrev den ”bästa bok som någonsin skrivits om det tyska motståndet mot nazismen”, är ett av många diktaröden som presenteras i Mixture – en samling vindlande, lärda och underhållande essayer. Vi får bekanta oss med den bisarre irländske radioprataren William Joyce, som under andra världskriget blev känd som nazipropagandisten Lord Haw-Haw, och får inblick i Virginia Woolfs notoriska hatkärlek till tjänstekvinnan Nellie. Vi möter poeten och litteratören Basil Bunting, som sin dikt använde sina erfarenheter från slagfält, ishavskonvojer och flyganfall. I Hjorths blandning ingår även flera personliga minnesbilder av berömda svenska författare som Willy Kyrklund, Gunnar Ekelöf och Fritiof Nilsson Piraten. Daniel Hjorth har givit ut essaysamlingar som Kakafoni och Gränslösa men också antologier som Kaféliv och Krogliv. Han medverkar regelbundet i Svenska Dagbladet och har tidigare varit förläggare på bokförlaget Alba och redaktör för BLM. Daniel Hjorth har sedan dess levt ett långt och rikt liv i litteraturens tjänst, som redaktör och bokförläggare och inte minst som essäist, en av de bästa. Ännu vid 80 års ålder håller han stilen. Hans nya samling Mixture är en fröjd att läsa. Svenska DagbladetEfter några timmar i sällskap med den mångkunnige och spirituelle Daniel Hjorth känner man sig både vederkvickt och bildad. Alingsås tidningDaniel Hjorths pregnanta och haltfulla bok gläder varje vän av lärd och udda essäistik i lundensisk tradition. Sydsvenska DagbladetHögklassig underhållning ... när man läst en essäsamling av Daniel Hjorth har man byggt på sin allmänbildning en hel del, utan att det gjort det minsta ont. Gefle dagblad