Text/Work: Representing Organization and Organizing Representation

ISBN-13: 9780415859905 / Angielski / Miękka / 2013 / 304 str.

Stephen Linstead

Opis

The concepts of social sciences, social action and organizations as texts, are no longer unfamiliar ones. The use of language in social analysis has made researchers acutely aware of the importance of language use, not only to contain and express experience but also to create second order accounts of these experiences. This way of using language to shape our knowledge and guide social action, it is urged, makes social action and organization a 'text'. Text/Work is an innovative exploration of our understanding of the textual nature of organizational life, and considers the consequences of textual nature for organization studies. How can organizations be profitably written into textual forms? This is a bold investigation into a challenging and exciting area of study.

Spis treści

Introduction: Text, Organization and Identity, Stephen Linstead Part One: Reading the Research Text Management She Wrote: Organization Studies and Detective Stories, Barbara Czarniawska Managing Metaphorically, Ian Lennie Browsing the Culture: Membership and Intertextuality at a Mormon Bookstore, Bryan C. Taylor Representation of Organizational Change in Ron Howard's Gung Ho: The Role of Speech Acts and Conversation, Joel Foreman and Tojo Thachenkery Text(s) from Place, Space & Non-place: Discourses of Poland, Hugo Letiche Organizing Multiple Spacetimes in a Colonial Context: Indigeneity and White Australian Nationalism at the Melbourne Museum, Goldie Osuri & Bobby Banerjee Part Two: Sampling Genres Protext: The Morphoses of Identity, Heterogeneity and Synolon, Klaus Harju Organizing the Past: A History and its (De)Construction, Alan Berkeley Thomas Eleven Characters in Search of an Ethic, or the Spirit of Capitalism, Ken Starkey Dramaturgy, Dialogue and Organizing: Scripting a (Theatrical) Play on Words, Cliff Oswick, Iain L.Mangham, Tom Keenoy, David Grant & Peter Anthony A 'Sampled' Account of Organization: Being a De-Authored, Reflexive Parody of Organization/Writing, Robert Westwood Circling the Square: Stories of an Unsettled Self, Robert Grafton Small

O autorze

Stephen Linstead is Professor of Organizational Analysis at the University of Durham.