Critically Constituting Organization

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Author: Andrew Chan

Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing

Published: 2001-01-16

Total Pages: 167

ISBN-13: 902729979X

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In the past, contingency and neo-Marxist theorists of culture reduced culture to an effect of something other than itself and, as they made culture metaphorical, they constituted its object of inquiry — a somewhat impossible pretension. This book extends the debate considerably. It does so through considering the work of Foucault in the context of the analysis of culture. While Foucault has had a considerable impact on organization studies, up to the present no text has systematically addressed what happens to organization culture when it encounter a Foucauldian gaze. Read this book and you will find out.Stewart Clegg, UTS, Sydney

The Emerald Handbook of Management and Organization Inquiry

The Emerald Handbook of Management and Organization Inquiry PDF

Author: David M. Boje

Publisher: Emerald Group Publishing

Published: 2019-06-06

Total Pages: 312

ISBN-13: 1787149722

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The Emerald Handbook of Management and Organization Inquiry provides new and innovative insights into the field of management and organization inquiry. It provides extensive coverage of the 7S structure that has been so transformational for the field: Storytelling, System, Sustainability, Science, Spirit, Spirals, and Sociomateriality.

Writing Organization

Writing Organization PDF

Author: Carl Rhodes

Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing

Published: 2001-01-01

Total Pages: 156

ISBN-13: 9789027233042

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Carl Rhodes examines the implicit power of writing and authorship that is at play when people and organisations are (re)presented in research. To explore this, the book reports a research project in the area of organisational storytelling that investigates how people in one organisation used stories to (re)present their own learning experiences from the implementation of a quality management program. This research is written in three principal genres: autobiography, ethnography and a fictional short story. These (re)presentational strategies are reviewed to examine how different genres effect authority in different ways. Drawing extensively on the work of Mikhail Bakhtin and on writers associated with postmodernism and poststructuralism, the book offers a challenging discussion of what organisational research might be when the notion of the equivalence of reality and representation is radically questioned.

The End of the 'Asian Model'?

The End of the 'Asian Model'? PDF

Author: Holger Henke

Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing

Published: 2000

Total Pages: 228

ISBN-13: 9027232997

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With the economic crisis in Asia, the development "model" on which the phenomenal earlier success of several countries in the region was built requires increasing scrutiny. This work questions the validity of the notion that there is a universally applicable model of industrialization common to Asian countries. A number of senior and highly regarded Asia specialists take a look at the various development experiences of several Asian countries and evaluate their experiences in a comparative perspective.

National Capitalisms, Global Competition, and Economic Performance

National Capitalisms, Global Competition, and Economic Performance PDF

Author: Sigrid Quack

Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing

Published: 2000

Total Pages: 335

ISBN-13: 9027233004

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Why are some firms successful on global markets whilst others are not? In this collection of papers, a group of distinguished international researchers examine the inter-relationship between national context, firm performance and global competitiveness. In a series of empirical studies covering major industries (such as banking, telecommunications, construction, automobiles, and airlines) in a number of European countries (Great Britain, France, Germany, Holland, Finland, Slovenia), the studies show how distinctive patterns of firm competences and capabilities arise from national contexts. These influence the way in which firms perform in response to changing technologies and competitive pressures. Thus the impact of the globalisation of economic activity may be to reinforce existing national differences in firm performance rather than producing a homogenisation and standardisation. This book will be of interest to researchers in business and management, sociology, economics and political science for its comparative organizational approach to problems of economic performance.

Handbook of Critical Perspectives on Nonprofit Organizing and Voluntary Action

Handbook of Critical Perspectives on Nonprofit Organizing and Voluntary Action PDF

Author: Roseanne M. Mirabella

Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing

Published: 2024-08-06

Total Pages: 493

ISBN-13: 1800371810

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This insightful Handbook brings together leading and emerging scholars within the field of nonprofit organization, serving as a call to action for academics to interrogate key contemporary issues such as backsliding and authoritarianism. It meticulously distinguishes traditional, often marginalist perspectives from nuanced counterarguments to balance out the field.

Fashion and Utopia in Management Thinking

Fashion and Utopia in Management Thinking PDF

Author: René ten Bos

Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing

Published: 2000-01-01

Total Pages: 248

ISBN-13: 9789027233035

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"Building upon some rather unusual sources in postmodern theory, the author argues that management fashion might encourage the practitioner to engage in philosophical self-examination and to adopt alternative forms of understanding. However, it is also argued that management fashion often fails to keep up to this promise because it remains paradoxically incapable of laying off its rationalist cloak."--BOOK JACKET.

Law and Policy for China's Market Socialism

Law and Policy for China's Market Socialism PDF

Author: John Garrick

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2012-05-04

Total Pages: 290

ISBN-13: 1136345019

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This edited volume presents fresh empirical research on the emerging outcomes of China’s law reforms. The chapters examine China’s ‘going out’ policy by addressing the ways in which the underpinning legal reforms enable China to pursue its core interests and broad international responsibilities as a rising power. The contributors consider China’s civil and commercial law reforms against the economic backdrop of an outflow of Chinese capital into strategic assets outside her own borders. This movement of capital has become an intriguing phenomenon for both ongoing economic reform and its largely unheralded underpinning law reforms. The contributors ask probing questions about doing business with China and highlight the astonishing escalation of China’s outbound foreign direct investment (OFDI). Law and Policy for China's Market Socialism includes contributions from leading China-law scholars and specialist practitioners from the People’s Republic of China, Hong Kong, the United States, the United Kingdom and other countries who all extend the examination of powerful influences on China’s law reforms into new areas. Given the forecast for the growth of China’s domestic market, those wishing to gain a better understanding and seeking success in the world's most dynamic marketplace will benefit greatly from reading this book. This book is essential reading for anyone interested in Chinese economics and business, Chinese Law, Chinese politics and commercial law.

Making Political Science Matter

Making Political Science Matter PDF

Author: Sanford F. Schram

Publisher: NYU Press

Published: 2006-11-27

Total Pages: 313

ISBN-13: 0814788521

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Making Political Science Matter brings together a number of prominent scholars to discuss the state of the field of Political Science. In particular, these scholars are interested in ways to reinvigorate the discipline by connecting it to present day political struggles. Uniformly well-written and steeped in a strong sense of history, the contributors consider such important topics as: the usefulness of rational choice theory; the ethical limits of pluralism; the use (and misuse) of empirical research in political science; the present-day divorce between political theory and empirical science; the connection between political science scholarship and political struggles, and the future of the discipline. This volume builds on the debate in the discipline over the significance of the work of Bent Flyvbjerg, whose book Making Social Science Matter has been characterized as a manifesto for the Perestroika Movement that has roiled the field in recent years. Contributors include: Brian Caterino, Stewart Clegg, Bent Flyvbjerg, Mary Hawkesworth, Patrick Thaddeus Jackson, Gregory J. Kasza, David Kettler, David D. Laitin, Timothy W. Luke, Theodore R. Schatzki, Sanford F. Schram, Peregrine Schwartz-Shea, Corey S. Shdaimah, Roland W. Stahl, and Leslie Paul Thiele.

International Encyclopedia of Organization Studies

International Encyclopedia of Organization Studies PDF

Author: Stewart Clegg

Publisher: SAGE

Published: 2008

Total Pages: 2009

ISBN-13: 1412915155

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Describing the field, spanning individual, organisation societal and cultural perspectives in a cross-disciplinary manner, this is the premier reference tool for students lecturers, academics and practitioners to gather knowledge about a range of important topics from the perspective of organisation studies.