steve Taylor
Email
sst@wpi.edu
Office
Washburn Shops 202
Education
PhD Management and Organizational Studies Boston College 2000
MA Performing Arts Emerson College 1993
BS Humanities Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) 1982

My research is focused in two areas: Organizational aesthetics takes seriously the idea that management is as much an art as it is a science, and applies art-based scholarship and practice to management and organizations. Reflective practice is the ability to analyze our own actions and learn from that how to be more effective, ethical, and artful as managers and leaders. At the heart of my work as a researcher and teacher, is my own practice as a playwright. My plays have been performed in England, France, Poland, Canada, New Zealand, Italy, and the USA. From my work in the theater, I have come to realize that learning is a whole body sport and this belief informs both my research and teaching.


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Scholarly Work

Professor Taylors's research focuses on Organizational Aesthetics and Reflective Practice.

  • Full list of publications in Google Scholar
  • Full list of publications in Scopus
  • Featured works:

    Creed W.E.D., Taylor S.S., Hudson B.A., (2020). Institutional Aesthetics: Embodied Ways of Encountering, Evaluating, and Enacting Institutions. . Organization Studies. , 41, 415-435. . https://doi.org/10.1177/0170840619835254

    Taylor, S. S., (2017). Staging Organization. Palgrave Macmillan Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-63127-1

    Taylor, S. S., (2012). Leadership Craft, Leadership Art. Palgrave Macmillan New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137012784

    Ladkin, D., Taylor, S.S., (2010). Enacting the ‘true self’: Towards a theory of embodied authentic leadership,. The Leadership Quarterly, 21, 64-74. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.leaqua.2009.10.005

    Ladkin, D., Taylor, S.S., (2009). Understanding arts-based methods in managerial development. Academy of Mangement Learning & Education, 8, 55-69. https://doi.org/10.5465/amle.2009.37012179

    Professional Highlights & Honors
    Series Editor, Business, Arts and Humanities
    Palgrave Macmillan
    Fulbright Specialist
    Massey University, New Zealand
    Founding Editor-in-Chief
    Organizational Aesthetics
    Researcher in Residence at the Banff Centre
    Banff Centre, Banff, Alberta, Canada
    Leadership Arts Playwright in Residence
    Banff Centre
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