This Handbook presents key ideas of philosophers and social theorists whose ideas inform process approaches to organization studies. Each chapter addresses the background and context of this thinker, their work (with a focus on the processual elements), and the potential contribution to organization and management research.

• 1: Robin Holt, Tor Hernes, Jenny Helin, and Daniel Hjorth: Process is how process does


• 2: Jack Barbalet: Laozi's Daodejing (6th century BC)


• 3: Ajit Nayak: Heraclitus (540-480 BC)


• 4: Yuan Li and Wen Haiming: Confucius (551-479 BC)


• 5: Yuan Li and Wen Haiming: Zhuang Zi


• 6: Daniel Hjorth and Robin Holt: Baruch Spinoza (1632-1677)


• 7: Elke Weik: Gottfried Leibniz (1646-1716)


• 8: Sverre Raffnsøe, Matias Møl Dalsgaard, and Marius Gudmand-Høyer: Soren Kierkegaard (1813-1855)


• 9: Andrus Tool: Wilhelm Dilthey (1833-1911)


• 10: Philippe Lorino: Charles Sanders Peirce (1839-1914)


• 11: Thomas C. Powell: William James (1842- 1910)


• 12: Christian Borch: Gabriel Tarde (1843-1904)


• 13: Robin Holt and Daniel Hjorth: Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900)


• 14: Steven Linstead: Henri Bergson (1859-1941)


• 15: Linh-Chi Vo and Mihaela Kelemen: John Dewey (1859-1952)


• 16: Tor Hernes: Alfred North Whitehead (1861-1947)


• 17: Barbara Simpson: George Herbert Mead (1863-1931)


• 18: Robert Chia: Nishida Kitaro (1870-1945)


• 19: Robert Richardson, Matt Statler, and Saku Mantere: Ludwig Wittgenstein (1889-1952)


• 20: Bogdan Costea and Kostas Amiridis: Martin Heidegger (1889 - 1976)


• 21: Ann L Cunliffe, Jenny Helin, and John T Luhman: Mikhail Bakhtin (1895-1975)


• 22: Nancy Harding: Jacques-Marie-Èmile Lacan (1901-1981)


• 23: Mike Zundel: Gregory Bateson (1904-1980)


• 24: Richard Nielsen: Hannah Arendt (1906-1975)


• 25: Melissa Tyler: Simone de Beauvoir (1908-1986)


• 26: Wendelin Kuepers: Maurice Merleau-Ponty (1908 - 1961)


• 27: Carien de Jonge and Gail Whiteman: Arne Naess (1912 2009)


• 28: Henrika Franck: Paul Ricoeur (1913-2005)


• 29: Nick Llewellyn: Harold Garfinkel (1917-2011)


• 30: Tore Bakken: George Spencer Brown (1923b)


• 31: Anders R. Kristensen, Bent M. Sørensen and Thomas Lopdrup-Hjorth: Gilles Deleuze (1925-1995)


• 32: Richard Weiskopf and Hugh Willlmott: Michel Foucault (1926-1984)


• 33: Heather Hopfl: Luce Irigaray (1930b)


• 34: Chris Steyaert: Michel Serres (1930b)


• 35: Timon Beyes: Peter Sloterdijk (1947b)


• 36: Robert Cooper: Process and Reality

Jenny Helin has a post doctoral position at Uppsala University, Sweden. Her research interests lie at the intersection of process philosophy and dialogue. She explores collaborative research practices mainly in the field of family owned businesses.
Tor Hernes obtained his Ph.D from Lancaster University in 1995. He has previously worked as an engineer, UN specialist, researcher, freelance consultant, and held academic positions at Tromsø University and Norwegian Business School, Oslo, before joining Copenhagen Business School in 2008. His main theoretical project is to extend understanding about the role of temporality in process thinking.
Daniel Hjorth is Professor of Entrepreneurship and Organisation at the Department of Management, Politics and Philosophy, Copenhagen Business School, Denmark. He is Academic Director for the across CBS Entrepreneurship Business in Society Platform. His latest books include The Politics and Aesthetics of Entrepreneurship (2009), edited with Chris Steyaert, and the Handbook of Organisational Entrepreneurship (2012) .
Robin Holt is Professor at the University of Liverpool Management School. He is also Visiting Professor at the Copenhagen Business School. He has previously worked in departments of politics and philosophy, as well as business and management, at a number of UK universities such as Southampton, Bath, Manchester Met, and Leeds. He is editor of Organization Studies.