ISBN:
9780415859905
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9780415304733
Language:
English
Pages:
VIII, 292 S.
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Ill.
Edition:
1. issued in paperback
Series Statement:
Management, organizations and society
DDC:
330
Keywords:
Communication in organizations
;
Organizational behavior
Description / Table of Contents:
Text/Work Representing organization and organizing representation; Copyright; Contents; List of contributors; Acknowledgement; Introduction: text, organization and identity; Part I Reading the research text; 1 Management she wrote: organization studies and detective stories; 2 Managing metaphorically; 3 Browsing the culture: membership and intertextuality at a Mormon bookstore; 4 Representation of organizational change in Ron Howard's Gung Ho: the role of speech acts and conversation; 5 Text(s) from place, space and non-place: discourses of Poland
Description / Table of Contents:
6 Organizing multiple spacetimes in a colonial context: indigeneity and white Australian nationalism at the Melbourne MuseumPart II Sampling genres; 7 Protext: the morphoses of identity, heterogeneity and synolon; 8 Organizing the past: a history and its (de)construction; 9 Eleven characters in search of an ethic: or the spirit of capitalism revisited; 10 Dramaturgy, dialogue and organizing: scripting a (theatrical) play on words; 11 A "sampled" account of organisation: being a de-authored, reflexive parody of organisation/writing; 12 Circling the square: stories of an unsettled self; Index
Note:
Description based upon print version of record
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The concepts of social sciences, social action and organizations as texts, are no longer unfamiliar ones. The use of language in social analysis has made researchers acutely aware of the importance of language use, not only to contain and express experience but also to create second order accounts of these experiences. This way of using language to shape our knowledge and guide social action, it is urged, makes social action and organization a 'text'.Text/Work is an innovative exploration of our understanding of the textual nature of organizational life, and considers ...
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