Organisational Space and Beyond: The Significance of Henri Lefebvre for Organisation Studies

ISBN-13: 9780367734268 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 326 str.

Karen Dale; Sytze F. Kingma; Varda Wasserman

Opis

This book brings together a range of authors that collectively develop a broader understanding of Lefebvre's relevance to organizational studies, including areas of management concern such as strategy and diversity studies, and ultimately draw on Lefebvre’s work to rethink, reimagine and reshape scholarship in organisational stu

Spis treści

1. Introduction: The Significance of Henri Lefebvre for Organizational Studies

Part 1: Lefebvrian Perspectives

2. Lefebvre as a Young Marxist: Rethinking the Triad in the Study of Organizational Space

3. Making Space, Making Time: Organizations and Social Scaling

4. Understanding Power Dynamics and Surveillance through Lefebvre's Conceptualisation of Space

5. Everyday’s Yesterday: Space and the Quotidian in the Vintage Marketplace

Part 2: Everyday Practices

6. Humour as Moments: Lefebvre’s Social Space and Humour

7. The Embodied Working Space of an English Cathedral

8. The Strategic Logic of Space: Using Lefebvre’s Rhythmanalysis to Understand Organisation Strategies

9. The Topography of Masculinity

10. Cake, Social Relations and the Open-plan Office

Part 3: The Politics of Space

11. Facing the Camp: Lefebvre, Refugee Settlements and the Politics of Organization

12. Producing the Space of Democracy: Spatial Practices and Representations of Urban Space in Spain's Transition to Democracy

13. The Production of Urban Space in the Age of Mass Consumerism: Revisiting Lefebvre and Spatialised Ideology

14. The Role of Institutional Actors in Constructing Space

15. The Organizational Process through which we Produce, Consume and Dispose of Space over Time

O autorze

Karen Dale is a Senior Lecturer and Director of Teaching in the Department of Organization, Work and Technology at Lancaster University, UK.

Sytze Kingma is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Organization Sciences at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Netherlands.

Varda Wasserman is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Management and Economics at the Open University of Israel, Israel.