ISBN:
9780415359894
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (245 p)
Series Statement:
Routledge Advances in Management and Business Studies
Parallel Title:
Print version CRITICAL REPRESENTATIONS OF WORK AND ORGANIZATION
DDC:
306.3/609182109045
Keywords:
Electronic books
Abstract:
This fascinating book demonstrates how popular culture is a compelling arena for the critique of organizational life, one that plays out the complex and contradictory relations that people have with the organizations in which they work.Given the ubiquity of representations of organizations in popular culture, Rhodes and Westwood examine those cultural narratives that provide a critical interrogation of the experience of work and organizations in contemporary society. Overall, the book opens up new possibilities for how to understand organizations and their relationship with society by articula
Description / Table of Contents:
Book Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgements; 1 Introduction: Organizations and popular culture; 2 Management as popular culture; 3 Articulating organization studies and popular culture; 4 Men, non-men and masculinity in Glengarry Glen Ross: The retardations of the masculine in contemporary capitalistic organizations; 5 Commerce is our goal: Corporate power and the novum in Blade Runner; 6 From 'The Rag Trade' to 'Ab Fab': Representations of work, gender and the politics of difference in British sitcoms; 7 The reception of McDonald's in sociology and television animation
Description / Table of Contents:
8 Bruce Springsteen, management gurus and the trouble of the promised land9 Selling out: Authenticity, resistance and punk rock; 10 Sampling, tinkering and the glitch: Bricolage in popular music and in organization practice; Notes; References; Index
Note:
Description based upon print version of record
