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© 2016 Association of Management, Spirituality & ReligionLove is a powerful human process that has attracted the attention of scholars within the cultural and scientific domains. Thus far, the majority of management scholars have tended to neglect love as a relevant topic of theorizing and research. Given the recent interest in the phenomenon in allied fields such as sociology and psychology, this is surprising. We create, inductively, an archetypical image of how managers make sense of the meaning of love as an organizational phenomenon by means of a sample of Christian managers. The findings indicate that such managers associate love with two core dimensions. First, they describe love as an expression of virtue. Second, they link love with a sense of community-ship. Organizational love can thus be theorized as the exercise of constructing virtuous, other-oriented human communities that transcend the productive functions of work and respond to important human needs, fulfilling normative performativity.
Author(s): Cunha MPE, Clegg SR, Costa C, Leite AP, Rego A, Simpson AV, Sousa MOD, Sousa M
Publication type: Article
Publication status: Published
Journal: Journal of Management, Spirituality and Religion
Year: 2016
Volume: 14
Issue: 1
Pages: 3-21
Online publication date: 18/07/2016
Acceptance date: 24/04/2016
ISSN (print): 1476-6086
ISSN (electronic): 1942-258X
Publisher: Routledge
URL: http://doi.org/10.1080/14766086.2016.1184100
DOI: 10.1080/14766086.2016.1184100
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