Iris Casteren van Cattenburch

Utrecht University | UU · Department of Humanities

Shakespeare's allegorical works can be employed to reflect narratives of learning organizations for organizational learning and foresight. In four strategic sessions with companies in the logistics industry, we made an experiment with the application of Shakespeare's allegories to relevant business issues. We worked out one case study in detail, de...

William Shakespeare's works can be employed to articulate values worthy of pursuit and reflect learning histories, thus facilitating organizational learning for sustainable futures. The authors argue that Shakespeare's allegories allude to recognizable representations of everyday life, and are built on a ‘plan’ that can be employed to perceive a pa...

Sustainability theory shows that the sustainability problem is a value orientation problem. In a recent study, Klaas van Egmond identified an underlying pattern of a crossed circle, representing affirmative and adversative value orientations, whose disintegration engenders unsustainable tendencies. This article explicates how Shakespeare's allegori...