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Organization Theory as a Literary Genre
This provocative and engaging perspective on organisations and organisation studies comes from one of the most original of contemporary writers in the...
A Cultural Perspective
The author of this volume explains how and why the mysteries of complex formal organizations are best unravelled using ethnographic techniques. Her bo...
Annotation With a focus on organization studies, this volume takes readers through the narrative approach to qualitative research, from setting up the...
Dramas of Institutional Identity
The most common social phenomenon of Western societies is the organization, yet those involved in real-world managing are not always willing to reveal...
How News Agencies Produce News
ÔOnly the polyglott Barbara Czarniawska, a keen ethnographer of organizations, could give us a picture of the production of news in the age of digita...
This book is a collection of texts that explore the analogy between organizing and narrating, between action and text. The raw material of everyday or...
Or the Glocalization of City Management
Cities are complex, sprawling, diverse places. They are organized, but disorganized; managed, but unmanaged; orderly, but disorderly. Modern metropoli...
From Field to Desk
This clear, straightforward textbook embraces the practical reality of actually doing fieldwork. It tackles the common problems faced by new researche...
And Other Techniques for Doing Fieldwork in Modern Societies
Shadowing offers an array of techniques to study people on the move, and the book is addressed to all social scientists interested in fieldwork as a w...
Narratives in Social Science Research introduces students to the use of narrative methodology as a research tool. It offers a rigorous framework for t...
Provides: an historical overview of the development of the narrative approach; a guide to how narrative methods can be applied in fieldwork; how to in...
The Production and Maintenance of Inequalities in Work Organizations
This volume focuses on the production and maintenance of gender inequalities in organisations. While organisations pay lip-service to ideas of equalit...
Academics and managers who strive for a humanistic management education usually care for people, but they are challenged by sophisticated intellectual...
Managing Warsaw in the 1990s
The specificity of the Warsaw picture is its demand for "reframing" and numerous and varied attempts have been made to achieve a "change of frame". Th...
This book offers an array of techniques to study people on the move, and the book is addressed to all social scientists interested in fieldwork as a w...
The book serves as an excellent primer for those wanting to learn about Actor-Network Theory through the lens of organisation theory....
This book examines the effects of globalization at the local level within our everyday lives. Rather than seeing the city as a conurbation, a location...
"It is simply too much" is a common complaint of the modern age. This book looks at how people and institutions deal with overflow - of information, c...
reading organizational realities
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A Constructionist View
Reading Organisational Realities in Fiction
While the careers of secret agents have inspired many genres of popular culture, relatively little research has been carried out until now on spying a...
Concepts, Issues, Processes