Steve Taylor| Worcester Polytechnic Institute

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Steve Taylor

The Business School

Professor

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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sst@wpi.edu

Office

Washburn Shops 202

Phone

+1 (508) 8315000 x5557

Owner

Research Interests

Organizational Aesthetics

Reflective Practice

First Person Research

Beautiful Action

Creativity

The Craft of Leadership

Scholarly Work

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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 Affiliations

Academy of Management

Art of Management & Organization

European Group for Organizational Studies

Applied Improvisation Network

Professional Highlights & Honors

Series Editor, Business, Arts and Humanities

Palgrave Macmillan

Fulbright Specialist

Massey University, New Zealand

Founding Editor-in-Chief

Organizational Aesthetics