Theatric Resources for David Boje's Students and Colleagues

GETTING STARTED - terms you will need to know:

• What is Metatheatre http://business.nmsu.edu/~dboje/enron/metatheatre.htm
• What is Metascript http://business.nmsu.edu/~dboje/enron/metascript.htm
• SEPTET main site http://business.nmsu.edu/~dboje/septet/
• Spectacle Theatre http://www.zianet.com/boje/1/pages/spectacle.htm
• Carnival Theatre http://www.zianet.com/boje/1/pages/carnival.htm
• Festive Theatre http://www.zianet.com/boje/1/pages/main.htm
• Tamara Journal http://tamarajournal.com/
• Boje, D. M. (2003). Short article on Theatrics of SEAM (Socio-Economic Approach to Management). Journal of Organizational Change Management. Vol 16 (1): pp. 21-32.
• Boje, D. M. (2001) "Tamara Manifesto" TAMARA: Journal of Critical Postmodern Organization Science Vol 1 (1): 15-24.
• Different types of theatre approaches in organization studies
  • David M. Boje, John T. Luhman, & Ann L. Cunliffe (2003). A Dialectic Perspective on the Organization Theatre Metaphor American Communication Journal. Volume 6, Issue 2, 2003
    http://acjournal.org/holdings/vol6/iss2/articles/boje.htm
    Pdf version http://acjournal.org/holdings/vol6/iss2/articles/boje.pdf
    

ON LINE BOOKS - FOR FREE

• Boje, D. M. (2003) Theatrics of Capitalism. Being published by Hampton Press in New Jersey. Use this till then.
• Boje, D. M. & Grace Ann Rosile (2003) Metatheatrics of SEAM. Being published by ISEOR Institute, France. Use it till then.
• Boje, D. M. (2001). Spectacles and Festivals of Organization: Managing Ahimsa Production and Consumption. Earlier version of what is to be published by Hampton Press. This one is on web ct. To access use ID=webct359 and CODE=trainme
• Boje, D.M. & R. Dennehy. Managing in the Postmodern World: America's Revolution Against Exploitation, Dubuque, IA: Kendall Hunt Publishing, 1993, 349 pages. 2003 version is on the web at http://business.nmsu.edu/~dboje/mpw.html
  
  
• ARISTOTLE
  • Boje, D. M. & Grace Ann Rosile (2003). Life Imitates Art: Enron’s Epic and Tragic Narration (pre-publication PDF file). Published in Management Communication Quarterly. Accepted for publication in Special issue on 'Corporate Meltdown." pp. 85-125.
  • PLOTS - David M. Boje and Grace Ann Rosile (2002). Enron Whodunit? Ephemera. Vol 2(4), pp. 315-327. Online at http://users.wbs.warwick.ac.uk/ephemera/ephemeraweb/journal/2-4/2-4bojeandrosile.pdf
    
• BRECHT
• Boje, D. M. (2003). Bertolt Brecht, the Aesthetics of Epic Theatre: Pedagogic Implications for the Management and Organization July 16, 2003. Presentation at 2003 August 2ndAcademy of Management Preconference on Aesthetics.
• Boje, D. M. (2003t). Towards Festivalism: Or, Can I Be Spiritual and Still Walk on the Dark Side? This paper on Brecht's Saint Joan of the Stockyard is done for presentation to the August 2nd 2003 meeting of the Academy of Management in Seattle, at symposium on spirituality and critical theory 
• BOAL
• Boje, D. M. (2002). How to do Boal theatre in 388 or 503 classes. Contains basics of doing Image, Invisibility, & Forum theatre with examples from McDonalds. Skip direct to in-class exercises
• Boje, D. M. (2003). McDonalds Theatre – Handout: Boal with a bit of Brecht – Aesthetics PDW - 2003 August 2nd Academy of Management Meetings in Seattle
• Boje, D. M. (2001) Games of Power - Boal-type classroom training exercises
• Boje, D. M. (2002). Boal and Transorganizational Development Consulting - links to Boal web site and biography
• Eugène IONESCO (1912-1994)
  • Boje, D. M. (2002) Ionesco and Theatre of the Absurd - short item about his play, "The Leader," with links
• GERTRUDE STEIN
  • Boje, D. M. (2005) Gertrude Stein's Absolute Theatre
• VICTOR TURNER
  • Boje, D. M. (2003). Victor Turner’s Postmodern Theory of Social Drama: Implications for Organization Studies May 30, 2003; Revised June 3, 2003 - Develops a process approach to theatre and Meta-theatre from Turner's perspective
    

CASE EXAMPLES of THEATRICS OF ORGANIZING AND LEADING

• Enron Metatheatrics main web site
• DISNEY and Disneyfication
  • Disney as Tamara-land theatre
  • Boje, D. M. (2000) "Phenomenal Complexity Theory and Change at Disney: Response to Letiche." Journal of Organizational Change Management, Vol 13(6): 558-566. Prepublication
• Las Vegas and Las Vegasization
• Boje, D. M. (2001) "Las Vegas Spectacles: Organization Power over the Body." M@n@gement, 4(3): 201-207. Special issue on Deconstructing Las Vegas at http://www.dmsp.dauphine.fr/management/PapersMgmt/43Boje2.html
• Boje, David M. (2001). Introduction to Deconstructing Las Vegas, M@n@gement, 4(3): 79-82. (Guest editor for the issue). See http://www.dmsp.dauphine.fr/management/PapersMgmt/43Boje.html for introduction and special issue at http://www.dmsp.dauphine.fr/management/
• Sweatshop Capitalism and Theatres of Terror (Marx)
  
• Nike
  • Boje, D. M. (2000a) "Spectacle and Inter-Spectacle in the Matrix and Organization Theory." Book chapter in Parker, Martin, Geoff Lightfoot, Matthew Higgins and Warren Smith (2001) Science Fiction and Organization, London: Routledge.
  • Boje, D.M. 2001. Carnivalesque resistance to global spectacle: A critical postmodern theory of public administration, Administrative Theory & Praxis, 23(3), 431-458. Nike
  • Boje, D. M. (2001). Tamara-izing PCT. (Nike) Emergence: A Journal of Complexity Issues in Organizations and Management. Vol. 3 (4): 26-31.
  • Boje, D. M. (2002). London presentation on Nike and antenarrative. Good map of the interorganizational relationships involved http://business.nmsu.edu/~dboje/papers/ethnostorytelling.htm
    

 

LEADERSHIP and THEATRICS

• Boje, D. M. (2002) Theatrics of Leadership working paper
• Boje, D. M. (2002) Theatrics of Global Capitalism working paper
• Boje, D. M. (2002) Existential Leadership
• Boje, D. M. (1999) Merchant of Venice. From 1999 August presentation to Academy of Management
• Boje, D. M. (1999) Premodern Theatrics of Leadership

VISUAL THEATRIC IMAGERY

• Boje, D. M. (2003s) Empire Visual Methods of Manet's Execution of Maximilian: Critical Visual Aesthetics and Antenarrative Spectrality July 15, 2003 For presentation at the Academy of Management, Visual Methodologies: Semiotic, Psychoanalytic, and Discursive Perspectives PDW, on August 2^nd, 2003 in Seattle.
• Boje, D. M. (2003t) Bush as Top Gun: Deconstructing Visual Theatric Imagery, June 3. This paper is done for presentation to the August 2nd 2003 meeting of the Academy of Management in Seattle, and a preconference on visual imagery
• Boje, D. M. (2003s). Bush spectacle theatrics: image analysis of the presidency June 2 2003 This paper is done for presentation to the August 2nd 2003 meeting of the Academy of Management in Seattle, and a preconference on visual imagery

Boje's more radical essays are at http://peaceaware.com/boje.htm