Why does process research require us to notice differently?

This introductory chapter sets out the implications of process ontology for the doing, reading and writing of process research in organizations, emphasizing its relevance for the ongoing development of process organization studies. It explores the theoretical and cultural bases of process philosophy, extending these by drawing in the contemporary theorizing of writers such as Deleuze and Guattari, Spivak, Ingold, Braidotti, Stewart and St. Pierre. The central argument is that process ontology re-conditions the ways in which empirical researchers notice what is happening, shifting attention away from the methodologies of entity-based research towards the situationally attuned production of worldings that emerge with and within living experience. In a transversal reading of the nine contributed chapters, the authors trace the mycelial threads of a vibrant web of resonances traveling within and beyond this book.