ISBN:
0203222474
,
0415304733
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (viii, 292 p)
Edition:
Online-Ausg. 2009 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
Series Statement:
Management, organizations and society
Parallel Title:
Print version Text/Work : Representing Organization and Organizing Representation
DDC:
302.35
Keywords:
Organizational behavior
;
Communication in organizations
Abstract:
A bold investigation into a challenging area of study that provides an innovative exploration of our understanding of the textual nature of organizational life,and considers the consequences of textual nature for organizational studies
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:
Includes bibliographical references and index
,
Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
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