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.
Professions and Metaphors: Understanding professions in society
1st Edition
Edited
By Andreas Liljegren, Mike Saks
December 10, 2019
Professions and Metaphors: Understanding Professions in Society explores the way that two traditions have contributed to our understanding of both theory and society over recent decades. In the first tradition, the growing literature on metaphors has helped to guide thinking, providing insights ...
Socially Responsible Capitalism and Management
1st Edition
By Henri Savall, Michel Péron, Véronique Zardet, Marc Bonnet
December 05, 2019
In the current crisis context, capitalism is questioned by its detractors or defended by its partisans. The concept of Socially Responsible Capitalism (SRC) is based on the entrepreneurial spirit. It encourages exemplary behaviors, such as effective, efficient and ethical behaviors, by stimulating ...
Governance, Resistance and the Post-Colonial State: Management and State Building
1st Edition
Edited
By Jonathan Murphy, Nimruji Jammulamadaka
September 25, 2019
The manifestation of the colonial nation-state as a legal-bureaucratic-police structure – an exploitation tool – undermined customary modes of governance in colonies. When post-World War II independence of colonies transferred ownership of the state structure to the colonized elite, ...
How Speech Acting and the Struggle of Narratives Generate Organization
1st Edition
By Thorvald Gran
June 12, 2019
How Speech Acting and the Struggle of Narratives Generate Organization seeks to shed understanding on how speaking or speech-acting affects how we are organized and how we influence each other and wield power. It is suggested that speaking is a major clue to organization and to the creation of new ...
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, Nigel 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 ...