ISBN:
9780230013612
Language:
English
Pages:
VIII, 265 S.
Edition:
Online-Ausg. Basingstoke, Hampshire Palgrave Connect Online-Ressource Palgrave Connect. Business & Management
Parallel Title:
Druckausg. Magala, Sławomir The management of meaning in organizations
DDC:
302.35
Keywords:
Verhalten in Organisationen
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Unternehmenskultur
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Organisatorischer Wandel
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Sozialer Wandel
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Management
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Theorie
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Organizational behavior
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Interorganizational relations
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Knowledge management
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Organizational change
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Organizational behavior
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Interorganizational relations
;
Organizational change
;
Knowledge management
;
Management & management techniques, bicssc
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Organizational theory & behaviour, bicssc
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Business and Management, ukslc
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Management & management techniques, thema
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Organizational theory & behaviour, thema
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Organisationsverhalten
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Wissensmanagement
;
Unternehmenskultur
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Electronic books
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Organisationsverhalten
;
Wissensmanagement
;
Unternehmenskultur
;
Organisationsverhalten
;
Wissensmanagement
;
Unternehmenskultur
Abstract:
Introduction: Can Values and Meanings be Outsourced and if so to whom? The Past of Meaning (Lost and Gained in Historical Translations) The Present Tense of Meaning (Underground Passages, The Cunning of Reason and the Return of Virtues) The Future of Meaning (Cultural Revolutions, Social Transformations and the Struggle Between Truths and Democracies Instead of Conclusions: Managerial Philosophies and Mirrors of Organizational Cultures
Abstract:
Historical translations and underground transfers of knowledge and values between cultural domains merit more attention. This book discusses the past, present and future of meaning. It shows how management of meaning in organizations fuels sociocultural evolution in complex societies, changing semantic fields of possible meanings ahead, Historical translations and underground transfers of knowledge and values between cultural domains merit more attention. This book discusses the past, present and future of meaning. It shows how management of meaning in organizations fuels sociocultural evolution in complex societies, changing semantic fields of possible meanings ahead. This book examines patterns of sense making processes underlying cultural diversity. Is there a future for critical management studies? Many claim that 'the MBA is dead'. But are academic communities self-reflexively alive and critically kicking?
Abstract:
'The most helpful GPS system to guide us in my opinion is our Euro-colleague Slawomir Magala's [Rotterdam School of Management]...new book The Management of Meaning in Organizations.' - Charles Wankel, St. John's University, New York 'This is a great book. Every scholar of organisation studies should have this book in their library.' - Professor Ken Parry, Centre for Leadership Studies, Bond University
Abstract:
Ebook. - Originally published in: 2009
Description / Table of Contents:
Cover; Contents; List of Illustrations; Preface; 1 Introduction: Can Values and Meanings be Outsourced and, if so, to Whom?; 2 The Past Tense of Meaning (Lost and Gained in Historical Translations); 3 Cases in Point; 4 The Present Tense of Meaning (Underground Passages between Hierarchies, the Cunning of Calculating Reason and the Return of Utopian Virtues); 5 Case in Point: Scaffolding for a Critical Turn in the Sciences of Management; 6 The Future Tense of Meaning (Cultural Revolutions, Social Transformations and Media Rituals)
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7 Instead of Conclusions: the Revenge of Populism and the Transformation of Angry Mobs into Mobilized Alternative Social NetworksAppendix 1 Track proposal for EURAM 2009, Liverpool 11-14 May 2009; Notes; Literature; Name Index
Note:
Includes bibliographical references (p. 224-258) and index
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DOI:
10.1057/9780230236691
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