'There is no alternative to free market liberalism and managerialism', is the orthodoxy of the twenty-first century. All too often, ordinary people across the world are being told that the problem of organization is already solved, or that it is being solved somewhere else, or that it need not concern them because they have no choices. This dictionary provides those who disagree with the evidence. Using hundreds of entries and cross-references, it proves that there are many alternatives to the way that we currently organize ourselves. These alternatives could be expressed as fictional...
'There is no alternative to free market liberalism and managerialism', is the orthodoxy of the twenty-first century. All too often, ordinary people ac...
An examination of culture in organizations, its influence on individuals, and its use as a management tool. It discusses the deficiencies of the earlier literature of culture in organizations and presents organizational cultures as fragmented unities.
An examination of culture in organizations, its influence on individuals, and its use as a management tool. It discusses the deficiencies of the earli...
Explores the significance of the first Apollo moon landing and how the countless books, films, and products associated with factual space fiction had an affect on popular culture and artistic practice, but not social sciences and humanities
Investigates how a topic is hugely important in popular culture, but almost invisible in the academy, and how it makes us want to ask questions about visibility, or perhaps self-censorship
Evaluates how little impact the space age actually had on the social sciences and humanities - partly because its combination of military-industrial...
Explores the significance of the first Apollo moon landing and how the countless books, films, and products associated with factual space fiction had ...
This provides a well-written critique of the origins and strategic uses of the concept of organizational culture. It provides a useful coverage and critique of the existing literature, demonstrating the need for the reflexive consideration of the way in which this concept is used in management and academia' - "Leadership and Organizational Development Journal
This provides a well-written critique of the origins and strategic uses of the concept of organizational culture. It provides a useful coverage and cr...
From Robin Hood to Jack Sparrow from Pirates of the Caribbean, outlaws have been a central part of 800 years of culture. These are characters that criticise the power of those in the castle or the skyscraper, and earn their keep by breaking the law. Outlaws break categories too. They are fact and fiction, opposition and product, culture and economy, natural justice and organized crime.
Beginning with Robin Hood stealing from the rich, and covering along the way pirates, smugglers, highwaymen, the Wild West, the Mafia and many others, Martin Parker offers a fresh and exciting insight...
From Robin Hood to Jack Sparrow from Pirates of the Caribbean, outlaws have been a central part of 800 years of culture. These are characters that ...
Science fiction can be seen as a diagnosis of the present, and a vision of possible futures. It therefore provides an excellent resource with which to interrogate both contemporary organizing processes and organizations as institutions. The marginal activity of science fiction has, however, been largely ignored in writing on organization theory. This international collection is the first book of its kind to explore how science fiction can enrich studies of organization by drawing on perspectives across the arts and social sciences.
Science fiction can be seen as a diagnosis of the present, and a vision of possible futures. It therefore provides an excellent resource with which to...
The position and role of the business school and its educational programmes have become increasingly prominent, yet also questioned and contested. What management education entails, and how it is enacted, has become a matter of profound concern in the field of higher education and, more generally, for the development of the organized world.
Drawing upon the humanities and social sciences, "The Routledge Companion to Reinventing Management Education" imagines a different and better education offered to students of management, entrepreneurship and organization studies. It is an...
The position and role of the business school and its educational programmes have become increasingly prominent, yet also questioned and contested. ...
Robert Cooper, who died in 2013, was the leading theorist of organization working in England over the past few decades. Describing himself as a 'social philosopher, ' he was one of the first writers to introduce post-structuralist and post-modern thought into theories of organization but was always reluctant to reduce what he did to being part of 'Management.' Instead, he concentrated on thinking about organizations and organizing, working with ideas about entity and process views of organizations, and also the dualisms of organization/environment, organization/disorganization, and...
Robert Cooper, who died in 2013, was the leading theorist of organization working in England over the past few decades. Describing himself as a 'so...
First published in 1994, the essays collected in this book explore the impact and current status of the ideas put forth in David Silverman's The Theory of Organizations, and how they relate to future directions in organization theory. After opening with a chapter by Silverman himself, the subsequent chapters investigate key issues in the study of organizations, including structure and agency, the politics of organization theory, and the meanings of post-positivist organizational analysis. Contemporaneous debates on postmodernism, the emotions, gender and structuration are discussed...
First published in 1994, the essays collected in this book explore the impact and current status of the ideas put forth in David Silverman's The...
