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 Poetic Logic of Administration: Styles and Changes of Style in the Art of Organizing
1st Edition
By Kaj Skoldberg
September 11, 2014
The Poetic Logic of Administration is an investigation of the most important organizational forms of our time, theoretically as well as practically. Central to the presentation are four main trends: the rational bureaucracy, the human network, the harmonious system and the strong culture.The book ...
Gossip and Organizations
1st Edition
By Kathryn Waddington
February 14, 2014
Gossip is a complex and ubiquitous phenomenon, widely found and variously practiced. Gossip and Organizations provides the reader with an analysis of gossip and informal knowledge across different national, organizational and cultural contexts, drawing upon empirical findings and the author's ...
Text/Work: Representing Organization and Organizing Representation
1st Edition
Edited
By Stephen Linstead
September 03, 2013
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 ...
Efficiency and Management
1st Edition
By Guy Callender
September 18, 2012
It is widely accepted that management concepts such as strategic management, human resource management and management development have a well-defined body of knowledge designed to inform management praxis, however the notion of efficiency has no such body of knowledge to support its application ...
Identity Politics at Work: Resisting Gender, Gendering Resistance
1st Edition
By Jean Helms Mills, Albert J. Mills, Robyn Thomas
September 10, 2012
This book represents the coming together of two key debates within organization studies: theorizing on gender and ways of understanding resistance. These debates have been given renewed vigour with the 'postmodern turn' in organization studies and feminist theory. Fusing these two literatures ...
Visual Culture in Organizations: Theory and Cases
1st Edition
By Alexander Styhre
July 27, 2012
Vision and visuality are two concepts widely discussed and debated in philosophy and social science literature. Some authors even suggest that the entire Western intellectual tradition is strongly shaped by the paradigm of vision; the inspection and analysis of specimens collected from social ...
Time in Organizational Research
1st Edition
Edited
By Robert A. Roe, Mary J. Waller, Stewart Clegg
June 13, 2012
Today there is widespread awareness of the fact that time has been under-investigated in organizational studies. This book addresses the need to bridge the gap between the predominantly "timeless" theories and models that scholars have produced and the daily experiences of employees and managers, ...
Values-based Service for Sustainable Business: Lessons from IKEA
1st Edition
By Bo Edvardsson, Bo Enquist
March 03, 2011
The role of values in developing and managing service companies has been under researched in the existing literature - until now. This book analyzes a large organization (IKEA) as a basis for values based service for sustainable business. The authors provide an overview of the history of...
Management and the Dominance of Managers
1st Edition
By Thomas Diefenbach
October 20, 2010
Managers are powerful. The organizations of our time are in essence managerial organizations, even our societies are managerial societies. This book looks behind the portrait of management as value-free ‘technicality’ and challenges the image of managers as the selfless pursuer of an organization’s...
Understanding Organization as Process: Theory for a Tangled World
1st Edition
By Tor Hernes
December 08, 2009
Organization takes place in a tangled world, intermeshed by changing markets, products, standards, technologies, institutions and social groups. Coming to grips with the complexity and fluidity of organization and management is a persistent problem for scholars and practitioners alike, which is why...
Gender and Entrepreneurship: An Ethnographic Approach
1st Edition
By Attila Bruni, Silvia Gheraradi, Barbara Poggio
October 07, 2008
Entrepreneurship can be read as a cultural and economic phenomenon. In recent times, gender has become an increasing influence on entrepreneurship. This groundbreaking new study considers both gender and entrepreneurship as symbolic forms, looking at their diverse patterns and social representation...
Management Theory: A Critical and Reflexive Reading
1st Edition
By Nanette Monin
April 26, 2007
Narrative approaches to organisation and management studies are very much in vogue. Offering a new challenge to management scholarship, Management Theory: A Critical and Reflexive Reading exposes the subtexts of five influential texts by Taylor, Follett, Drucker, Mintzberg and Kanter. In doing so, ...