Includes bibliographical references (p. 275-299).

Participative organizing as relational practice / Chris Steyaert, Bart Van Looy -- 'Relational practices' for generative communal organizing : travelling between Geel and Ecuador / René Bouwen -- From individualism to post-heroic practices in organizational research / H. Peter Dachler -- Relational practice : 'the daily things we do' / Chris Blantern -- The heart of relational organizing : passion, autonomy and responsibility / Paul Salipante, Nancy Koury King -- Apologies and remorse in organizations : saying sorry-- and meaning it? / Stephen Fineman, Yiannis Gabriel -- Integrating multiple voices : working with collusion in multiparty collaborations / Barbara Gray, Sandra Schruijer -- Developing space for diversity : an appreciative stance / Ronald E. Fry, Johan Hovelynck -- On the moral of an emerging academic praxis : accounting for a conference experience / Keijo Räsänen -- Using knowledge-as-inquiry to mobilize change : a retrospective analysis of 'moments of change' in a relational practice / Alexander J.J.A. Maas, Johannes H. Stravers, Frans P.M. Baar -- Processes of technological innovation in context-- and their modulation / Arie Rip -- Relational practices of change : poised between politics and aesthetics / Dian Marie Hosking -- Relational practices and the emergence of the uniquely new / John Shotter -- Polyvocal organizing : an exploration / Kenneth Gergen, Mary Gergen.

"This book focuses on the concept and role of relational practices as a way to understand and study processes of organizing. Relational practices are conceived as an ongoing, everyday process resulting in more participative ways of organizing. Participative organizing works from and with the multiplicity of interactions inherent in processes of becoming; it reflects upon and experiments with how the diversity of participants and interactions can provide the potential for defining and redefining organizational realities.A" Through reflective essays and empirical research examples, this book illustrates that relational practices of everyday organizational life are strongly entangled with emotional, embodied, and aesthetic processes. The combination of these corollaries of participative organizing -- as an everyday, complex accomplishment, poised between intervention and invention, and between an affective and aesthetic ecology of belonging and becoming -- provides a new perspective on how the practice of organizing and the organizing of practice can be accomplished and managed in the years to come."