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| Author: | Bell, E. Taylor, S. |
| Title: | Beyond letting go and moving on: new perspectives on organizational death, loss and grief |
| Journal: | Scandinavian Journal of Management
2011 : MAR, VOL. 27:1 p. 1-10 |
| Index terms: | organization change restructuring culture North America |
| Language: | eng |
| Abstract: | Understandings of organizational death - a term used used to describe cases of downsizing, site closures and business failures - are dominated by psychological stage models which promote letting go as a solution to collective loss. This approach neglects the empirical and conceptual shift that has transformed understandings of bereavement at the individual level through the theory of continuing bonds. This is the consequence of: (i) a managerialist focus on grief as a problem to be solved (ii) a cultural orientation that constructs relationships between life and death, self and others etc. and (iii) an empirical emphasis on North American organizations. The paper concludes by suggesting how a continuing bonds perspective could enhance understandings of organizational death culturally. |
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