Organization Studies and Posthumanism: Towards a More-than-Human World (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781032614243)

François-Xavier de Vaujany is full professor of Organization Studies at Université Paris Dauphine-PSL and researcher within DRM. His research deals with the political and societal dimensions of (new) ways of organizing work and their management. He is particularly interested in the time-space of contemporary digital organization of work. Post-phenomenologies and process philosophy are key perspectives of his research emphasizing the apocalyptic process of digital management and organization.

Silvia Gherardi is senior professor of sociology of organization at the University of Trento (Italy), where she founded the Research Unit on Communication, Organizational Learning, and Aesthetics (www.unitn.it/rucola). She is also professor II at the School of Business, Society and Engineering, Mӓlardalens University (Sweden). She received the degree of "Doctor Honoris Causa" from Roskilde University (2005), East Finland University (2010) and St Andrews University (2014). Her research interests include feminist new materialism, entrepreneurship, epistemology of practice, and postqualitative methodologies in organization studies.

Polyana Silva is currently a PhD candidate at the University of Sao Paulo, where she is conducting research on the enmeshed aspects of life in a digitalized and virtualized worlds. Her particular areas of interest include virtual worlds, virtual beings, and metaverse projects, which she approaches from a posthumanist perspective. She has been part of organizing committees of research-oriented events such as the Chaire France-Brésil USP, a Chaire devoted to "Digitality and Management: Presence, Time and Space"; and the Organizations, Artifacts & Practices (OAP) Workshop. She is a member of the research groups "Public Sector Accounting and Governance in Brazil (PSAG)" and Meta: lab - Metaverse Laboratory for Research and Innovation.