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The Irony of Making Materiality of Consequence
Author(s) -
Carlile Paul R
Publication year - 2015
Publication title -
british journal of management
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 2.407
H-Index - 108
eISSN - 1467-8551
pISSN - 1045-3172
DOI - 10.1111/1467-8551.12079
Subject(s) - irony , enthusiasm , materiality (auditing) , aesthetics , dynamics (music) , epistemology , sociology , philosophy , art , psychology , social psychology , literature , pedagogy
I worry that in our continued enthusiasm to embrace dynamics (INGness) we have thrown the baby out with the bath water. Most unfortunately that baby is all of us because the consequences of our actions fade into a soft humanistic yet indistinguishable stew. For me materiality gives us the means to see durability and not just dynamics; accumulations and not just activities; outcomes and not just process; consequences and not just change. But this essay is just words and the irony I see may go unnoticed; at least until the next attempt.