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Managing as designing with a positive lens

Designing Information and Organizations with a Positive Lens

ISBN: 978-0-7623-1287-0, eISBN: 978-1-84950-398-3

Publication date: 18 December 2007

Abstract

The role and potential contribution of a positive lens to the design of systems and organizations is the focus of this essay. The positive lens refers to an emerging perspective in the social sciences that emphasizes a positive stance toward our capacity to construct better organizations and technologies through a positive discourse. Joining a positive lens onto organizing with the transformative power of design thinking opens new horizons and uncovers previously overlooked possibilities for creating organizational and social well-being. We discuss the core practices that drive design and argue that they hold the key for applying a positive design attitude.

Citation

Avital, M. and Boland, R.J. (2007), "Managing as designing with a positive lens", Avital, M., Boland, R.J. and Cooperrider, D.L. (Ed.) Designing Information and Organizations with a Positive Lens (Advances in Appreciative Inquiry, Vol. 2), Emerald Group Publishing Limited, Leeds, pp. 3-14. https://doi.org/10.1016/S1475-9152(07)00201-3

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Emerald Group Publishing Limited

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