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The “Finger Puppets”

Year: 2014

Type: article

Abstract: The resource review we examine here is provided by the Unemployed Philosophers Guild (http://www.philosophersguild.com/Finger-Puppets/). On the company’s website they comment: “. . . we have discovered that people seem to really like the giants of our culture reduced to little finger puppets . . .” In particular, we consider the use of the “finger puppets” to generate a liminal moment (Hawkins & Edwards, 2013) in management education. Liminal moments have been described as “moments in and out of time” (Delanty, 2010, p. 31). A sense of “neither here nor there; they are betwixt and between the positions assigned and arrayed by law, custom, convention, and ceremony” . . . that allow for the “realm of pure possibility” (Turner,1967, p. 95). We explore the use of this resource as a liminal tool and its value to management education.

Source: Organizational Behavior Teaching Review

DOI: 10.1177/1052562914540904

Authors: Steve Kempster, Arthur Turner, Pam Heneberry, Valerie Stead, Carole Elliott

Institutions: Lancaster University, University of South Wales, Durham University

Language: English

Topic: Management and Marketing Education

Subfield: Management of Technology and Innovation

Field: Business, Management and Accounting

Domain: Social Sciences

Open Access status: green

OpenAlex ID: W2056324005

FWCI: 1.503

Cites: 9

Cited by: 6

Related to: 10