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Hart, Katherine A.

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The quest for community and imagination: A transcultural approach to discovering the seeds for organizational change in for-profit businesses (Laos, United States).

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	The quest for community and imagination: A transcultural approach to discovering the seeds for organizational change in for-profit businesses (Laos, United States)./
Author:	Hart, Katherine A.
Description:	286 p.
Notes:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 65-02, Section: A, page: 0601.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International65-02A.
Subject:	Business Administration, Management. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=3124128
ISBN:	0496714368

The quest for community and imagination: A transcultural approach to discovering the seeds for organizational change in for-profit businesses (Laos, United States).
Hart, Katherine A.

The quest for community and imagination: A transcultural approach to discovering the seeds for organizational change in for-profit businesses (Laos, United States). - 286 p.

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 65-02, Section: A, page: 0601.

Thesis (Ed.D.)--University of San Francisco, 2004.

Organizational change, tantamount to thriving in an evolving global marketplace, is only possible through the collective and diverse capacities of employees. This research searches out how and when communities are able to form within businesses, exploring the opportunities to engage and encourage the imaginative capacities of people to enact change (Kearney 1991). Acknowledging the existence of a greater global community and recognizing the limitless potentialities that can emerge when cross-cultural similarities and differences are explored, a transcultural approach critically examines American and Lao businesses.

ISBN: 0496714368Subjects--Topical Terms:

626628
Business Administration, Management.

The quest for community and imagination: A transcultural approach to discovering the seeds for organizational change in for-profit businesses (Laos, United States).
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520 $a Organizational change, tantamount to thriving in an evolving global marketplace, is only possible through the collective and diverse capacities of employees. This research searches out how and when communities are able to form within businesses, exploring the opportunities to engage and encourage the imaginative capacities of people to enact change (Kearney 1991). Acknowledging the existence of a greater global community and recognizing the limitless potentialities that can emerge when cross-cultural similarities and differences are explored, a transcultural approach critically examines American and Lao businesses.
520 $a Relying on critical hermeneutics to explore the multi-facets of meaning (Herds 1999) comprising Western and Eastern perspectives of community and imagination, the theoretical orientations of language and understanding, communicative action, metaphor, and oneself as another are applied. Language, the medium through which all understanding is revealed (Gadamer 1998[1960]), sifts through layers of cultural meaning to explore deeply held beliefs and prejudices. Metaphor explores transcultural differences in light of universal truths and new understandings (Ricoeur 1997[1975]). Oneself as another recognizes the universal dialectic of identity and the innate sense of care (Ricoeur 1994[1990]). Twelve participatory research conversations with owners and managers of American and Lao businesses situate the researcher and participants as co-creators in a quest to discover new meanings and understandings.
520 $a The conversational texts are emplotted into narratives revealing multiple layers of meaning surrounding the categories of community, care, and imagination. The Lao stories reveal the central themes of historical rootedness, family unity, care for the other, and difficulty imagining a future amidst overwhelming economic struggles. The American stories unfold the struggle to redefine community and imbue a sense of care alongside a preoccupation with economic gain and working at warp speeds.
520 $a Weaving the narratives together illuminates the transcultural struggles and reveals universal threads of connectedness. Community and imagination intersect in the narratives that employees within companies have co-created. Embedded within these narratives are the memory and traces of what has gone before, the ability to realize a greater context of meaning in the work being pursued, and the concepts of being-with and building relationships through communicative action. The multiple meanings of care serve as the mediating function that enables community and imagination to unfold.
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