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Daved Barry

Professor , PhD
Daved Barry

Department of Management, Politics and Philosophy

Porcelænshaven 18B
DK-2000 Frederiksberg
Tel.: +45 3815 3551
Fax:+45 3815 3635
E-mail: db.lpf@cbs.dk



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My work focuses on how art, design, narrative thinking, and the humanities in general can inform and improve organizing, problem solving, managing, and leadership:
  • The Workarts—the arts as they occur within management and organization, including art theory, visual arts, music, lit studies, film, culinary arts, architecture, choreography. How can we make more lifeful workplaces and enterprises using arts-based thinking and practice?
  • Creative Enterprise Design—applying/advancing contemporary design thinking to companies, communities, governments, services, projects, groups, workplaces, etc. I am particularly interested in artful design approaches within these arenas.
  • Rich Inquiry—using visual, narrative, sculptural, kinectic, and similar methods in organizational research and development.
  • Creativity and Innovation, especially from the perspective of the arts, humanities and help-based social sciences.
  • Generative Problem Solving and Decision Making—developing and applying rich problem solving methods to pernicious problems.
  • Leadership development and practice, particularly as viewed from an arts and humanities perspective.
  • Organizational Alterities—alternative organizational forms, fictions, possibilities.

Primary research areas

  • The Workarts
  • Creative Enterprise Design
  • Rich Inquiry
  • Creativity and Innovation
  • Generative Problem Solving and Decision Making
  • Leadership development and practice
  • Organizational Alterities


Selected publications

  • “Seeing more and seeing differently: Sensemaking, mindfulness, and the workarts.” Forthcoming 2010: Organization Studies. With Stefan Meisiek.
  • “The art of leadership and its fine art shadow.” 2010. Leadership: 6(3): 331-349. With Stefan Meisiek
  • “Entrepreneuring.” 2009. Special issue of Academy of Management Review: 34(3). Co-edited with Dave Ketchen and Violina Rindova.
  • “Entrepreneuring as emancipation.” 2009. Academy of Management Review, 34(3): 477-491. With Violina Rindova and Dave Ketchen.
  • "Handbook of New Approaches in Management and Organization”. 2008. Sage. Edited with Hans Hansen.
  • “Through the looking glass of organizational theatre: Analogically mediated inquiry in organizations.” 2008. Organization Studies, 28(12): 1805-1827. With Stefan Meisiek.
  • “Going mobile: Aesthetic design considerations from Calder and the Constructivists.” 2006. Organization Science, 17(2): 262-276. With Claus Rerup.
  • “To Text or context? Endotextual, exotextual, and multi-textual approaches to narrative and discursive organizational studies”. 2006. Organization Studies, 27(8): 1091-1110. With Brigid Carroll & Hans Hansen.
  • “Cadences at Waco: A critique of “Timing and Music”. 2003. Academy of Management Review, 28(3). With Ralph Bathurst and Lloyd Williams.
  • “Toggling with Taylor: A different approach to reading a management text.” 2003. Journal of Management Studies, 40(2): 377-401. With Nanette Monin and John Monin.
  • “Deliverance, denial, and the death zone: A study of narcissism and regression in the May 1996 Everest climbing disaster”. 1999. Journal of Applied Behavioral Science, V35(2): 163-187. With Michael Elmes.
  • “Telling changes: From narrative family therapy to organizational change and development.” 1997. Journal of Organizational Change Management, V10(1): 32-48.
  • “Navigating the garbage can: How agendas help managers cope with job realities.” 1997. Academy of Management Executive, V11(2): 26-42. With Stephen Carroll and Catherine Cramton.
  • “Strategy retold: A narrative approach to strategic discourse.” 1997. Academy of Management Review, V22(2): 429-452). With Michael Elmes.
  • “Artful inquiry: A symbolic constructionist framework for social science research.” 1996. Qualitative Inquiry, V2(4): 411-438).
  • “Making the invisible visible: Using analogically-based methods to surface unconscious processes in organizations.” 1994. Organizational Development Journal, V12(4): 37-48.
Full publication list (pdf)



Last updated by Anje Schmidt 28/10/2010