Action at a Distance: Studies in the Practicalities of Executive Management

ISBN-13: 9781138504165 / Angielski / Miękka / 2018 / 180 str.

R. J. Anderson; W. W. Sharrock

Opis

This book examines the nature of work and management, centring on documents as a class of management objects that play a central role as ordering devices, in the social organisation of patterns of coordinated action in situations in which the usual resources of face to face communication are absent. With a focus on managers, the authors offer a description of the interior configuration of the world of senior management, drawing on first person experience rather than ethnographic fieldwork to shed new light on the importance of third person reflection upon practical understandings.

Spis treści

List of figures; List of tables; List of Appendices; Preface; Part I: Foundations; 1. The world of the senior manager; 2. Management as a common sense construct; Part II: Studies in the practicalities of executive management; 3. Representations and realities; 4. Representations without metaphysics; 5. Intersubjectivity and the arts of financial management; 6. The contingencies of due process; Appendix; 7. Sensitivity analysis as practical modal realism; Appendix; 8. Benchmarking as reality conjuncture; Appendix; 9. Does it wash its face?; Appendix; 10. Plans and their situated actions; Part III: Conclusion; 11. Ethnomethodology: a First Sociology?; Index

O autorze

BobAnderson is the former Pro Vice Chancellor for Research at Sheffield Hallam University. As CEO of University Campus Suffolk, UK, he led the founding of what is now the University of Suffolk. He is currently an Associate in the Horizon Research Institute at Nottingham University. WesSharrock is Professor in the Department of Sociology at Manchester University, UK.