Routledge Studies in Management, Organizations and Society
About the Book Series
Management, Organizations and Society represents innovative work grounded in new realities; addressing issues crucial to an understanding of the contemporary world. This is the world of organized societies, where boundaries between formal and informal, public and private, local and global organizations have been displaced or vanished along with other nineteenth century dichotomies and oppositions. Management, apart from becoming a specialised profession for a growing number of people, is an everyday activity for most members of modern societies. Management, Organizations and Society will address these contemporary dynamics of transformation in a manner that transcends disciplinary boundaries, with work which will appeal to researchers, students and practitioners alike.
The Organization of Craft Work: Identities, Meanings, and Materiality
1st Edition
Edited
By Emma Bell, Gianluigi Mangia, Scott Taylor, Maria Laura Toraldo
June 06, 2019
This edited book focuses on the organization and meaning of craft work in contemporary society. It considers the relationship between craft and place and how this enables the construction of a meaningful relationship with objects of production and consumption. The book explores the significance of ...
The Work of Communication: Relational Perspectives on Working and Organizing in Contemporary Capitalism
1st Edition
By Timothy Kuhn, Karen L Ashcraft, Francois Cooren
June 06, 2019
The Work of Communication: Relational Perspectives on Working and Organizing in Contemporary Capitalism revolves around a two-part question: "What have work and organization become under contemporary capitalism—and how should organization studies approach them?" Changes in the texture of capitalism...
Reframing Institutional Logics: Substance, Practice and History
1st Edition
By Alistair Mutch
October 08, 2018
How are we to characterise the context in which organisations operate? The notion that organisational activity is shaped by institutional logics has been influential but it presents a number of problems. The criteria by which institutions are identified, the conflation of institutions with ...
Dance and Organization: Integrating Dance Theory and Methods into the Study of Management
1st Edition
By Brigitte Biehl
August 23, 2018
Dance and Organisation is the first comprehensive work to integrate dance theory and methods into the study of management, which have developed an interest in the arts and the humanities. Dance represents dynamics and change and puts the moving body at the centre, which has been ignored and ...
Foucault and Managerial Governmentality: Rethinking the Management of Populations, Organizations and Individuals
1st Edition
Edited
By Alan McKinlay, Eric Pezet
August 23, 2018
In the last two decades there has been an explosion of research inspired by Michel Foucault’s suggestion of a new concept, ‘governmentality’. The distinctive feature of modern governmentality is that across all sorts of fields, rule is predicated upon the active subject as the vehicle through ...
Imagining Organizations: Performative Imagery in Business and Beyond
1st Edition
Edited
By Paolo Quattrone, N. J. Thrift, Chris Mclean, Francois-Regis Puyou
August 23, 2018
Organizations rely extensively upon a myriad of images and pictorial representations such as budgets, schedules, reports, graphs, and organizational charts to name but a few. Visual images play an integral role in the process of organizing. This volume argues that images in organizations are ‘...
The Organization of the Expert Society
1st Edition
Edited
By Andreas werr, Staffan Furusten
August 07, 2018
It is often claimed that we live in an expert society, a society where more and more individuals take expert roles in increasingly narrow fields. In contrast to more traditional experts most of these new experts lack generally accepted mechanisms for the certification and legitimation of their ...
Untold Stories in Organizations
1st Edition
Edited
By Michal Izak, Linda Hitchin, David Anderson
August 07, 2018
The field of organizational storytelling research is productive, vibrant and diverse. Over three decades we have come to understand how organizations are not only full of stories but also how stories are actively making, sustaining and changing organizations. This edited collection contributes to ...
Organizing through Empathy
1st Edition
Edited
By Kathryn Pavlovich, Keiko Krahnke
August 06, 2018
Empathy dissolves the boundaries between self and others, and feelings of altruism towards others are activated. This process results in more compassionate and caring contexts, as well as helping others in times of suffering. This book provides evidence from neuroscience and quantum physics that it...
Pierre Bourdieu, Organization, and Management
1st Edition
Edited
By Ahu Tatli, Mustafa Ozbilgin, Mine Karatas-Ozkan
August 06, 2018
Pierre Bourdieu, the French sociologist, philosopher, and anthropologist, has been widely studied and analyzed in academic circles, particularly in sociology, where his ideas about power relations in social life helped to define the contemporary field. While many other sociological theories and ...
Sexual Orientation at Work: Contemporary Issues and Perspectives
1st Edition
Edited
By Fiona Colgan, Nick Rumens
August 06, 2018
Sexual Orientation at Work: Contemporary Issues and Perspectives brings together contemporary international research on sexual orientation and draws out its implications for lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans and heterosexual employees and managers. It provides new empirical and theoretical ...
Advancing Organizational Theory in a Complex World
1st Edition
Edited
By Jane Qiu, Ben Luo, Chris Jackson, Karin Sanders
June 08, 2018
While research in organisational studies has become increasingly rich and complex, organisation researchers are constantly challenged by the growing quest for theoretical advancement and innovation. To conduct theoretically rigorous and innovative research, contemporary researchers and students ...