Table of Contents
Preface
Chapter 1: The Foundations of Liminality
- Introduction
- Between and Betwixt: Experiencing Transitions
- Timeliness and Spacelessness
- Rites, Ceremonies, and Symbols
- The Anti-Structure
- Communitas
- Identity Work
- Liminality as a Realm of Possibilities, but also a Domain of Anguish
- The Creative Power of Liminal Personae
- The Negative Feelings Associated to Liminality
- The Liminoid Experience
- Conclusion
Chapter 2: Liminality and Organizations
2.1 Introduction
- The Changing Nature of Work Arrangements and the Diffusion of Liminality
- Liminality across Organizational Boundaries
- Liminality as Contingent Work
- Liminality within a Single Organization
- Liminality as the Pursuit of Multiple Careers
- Liminality in Specific Organizational Settings
- Entrepreneurship as Liminal Experience
- Liminality in Teams and the Relevance of Leadership
- The Liminal Organization
- The Aftermath of Liminality in Organizational Settings
- Conclusion
Chapter 3: Emergent Perspectives on Liminality
3.1 Introduction
3.2 Liminality as a Protracted Experience
3.3 Liminality as a Repeated (and Repeatable) Experience
3.4 Liminality as a Dynamic Experience
3.5 Liminality as Additive Experiences
3.6 Liminality as Degree of Intensity of Experience
3.7 Liminality as Creation of Practices
3.8 Conclusion
Chapter 4: Towards a Model of Liminal Experience
- Introduction
- Perception of Liminal Experience
- The Dimensions of Timeliness and Spacelessness
- The Dimension of Anti-structure
- The Dimensions of Communitas
- The Dimensions of Identity Work
- The Dimensions of Collective and Individual Practice
- Conclusion
References
Index