Abstract

According to Gabriel (1995) the unmanaged organization is a space in which people’s emotions and anxieties contribute to irrationality expressed through stories, myths, gossip, etc. This fantasy terrain is an organizational dreamworld which exists simultaneously with goal orientation and rationalist approach of most organizations (ibid.). The unmanaged space can be considered a suitable terrain for creative and unharnessed subjective thinking processes which contribute to the generation of original and novel ideas in modern organizations (such interpretation is suggested by Garbriel’s characterization of unmanaged organization as ‘the habitat of subjectivity’ (p.477)). The terrain of unmanaged organization consists in uncolonized, irrational and uncontrolled space in which “unsupervised, spontaneous activity” can blossom (ibid., p. 478).