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Routledge Studies in Management, Organizations and Society

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.

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21-29 of 29 results in Routledge Studies in Management, Organizations and Society

  1. Understanding Organization as Process

    Theory for a Tangled World

    By Tor Hernes

    Series: Routledge Studies in Management, Organizations and Society

    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...

    Published August 11th 2009 by Routledge

  2. The Public Services under Reconstruction

    Client experiences, professional practices, managerial control

    By Marja Gastelaars

    Series: Routledge Studies in Management, Organizations and Society

    This book examines the services in and around the public domain. The author analyses a number of socio-cultural changes that are generally considered relevant to these services, including the rationalising efforts of the New Public Management and the introduction of IT. The book particularly...

    Published October 23rd 2008 by Routledge

  3. Gender and Entrepreneurship

    An Ethnographic Approach

    By Attila Bruni, Silvia Gheraradi, Barbara Poggio

    Series: Routledge Studies in Management, Organizations and Society

    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...

    Published October 6th 2008 by Routledge

  4. Management Theory

    A Critical and Reflexive Reading

    By Nanette Monin

    Series: Routledge Studies in Management, Organizations and Society

    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,...

    Published January 21st 2004 by Routledge

  5. The Social Construction of Management

    By Nancy Harding

    Series: Routledge Studies in Management, Organizations and Society

    What is management and how do the people who become managers take on a managerial identity?How does text inform the manager's identity?From cultural studies we understand that the relationship between text and reader is not passive but that each one works upon the other, and that text is active in...

    Published July 16th 2003 by Routledge

  6. Text/Work

    Representing Organization and Organizing Representation

    Edited by Stephen Linstead

    Series: Routledge Studies in Management, Organizations and Society

    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...

    Published December 25th 2002 by Routledge

  7. Gender, Identity and the Culture of Organizations

    Edited by Iiris Aaltio, Albert J. Mills

    Series: Routledge Studies in Management, Organizations and Society

    Gender, Identity and the Culture of Organizations considers how organizations operate as spaces in which minds are gendered and men and women constructed. This edited collection brings together four powerful themes that have developed within the field of organizational analysis over the past two...

    Published August 14th 2002 by Routledge

  8. Casting the Other

    The Production and Maintenance of Inequalities in Work Organizations

    Edited by Barbara Czarniawska, Heather Hopfl

    Series: Routledge Studies in Management, Organizations and Society

    Casting the Other: Maintaining Gender Inequalities in the Workplace focuses on the production and maintenance of gender inequalities in organizations. By emphasizing 'difference' as something to be managed many organizations institute the 'problem of difference', and while orgainzations pay...

    Published May 1st 2002 by Routledge

  9. The Poetic Logic of Administration

    Styles and Changes of Style in the Art of Organizing

    By Kaj Skoldberg

    Series: Routledge Studies in Management, Organizations and Society

    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...

    Published February 6th 2002 by Routledge

Forthcoming Books

  1. Storytelling in Management Practice: Dynamics and Implications
    By Stefanie Reissner, Victoria Pagan
    To Be Published May 26th 2013
  2. Identity, Feeling and Sociality at Work: Affective Organizing
    By David Grant, Rick Iedema, Carl Rhodes, Hermine Scheeres
    To Be Published May 31st 2013
  3. Hierarchy and Organisation: Toward a General Theory of Hierarchical Social Systems
    By Thomas Diefenbach
    To Be Published June 25th 2013
  4. Organizing through Empathy
    Edited by Kathryn Pavlovich, Keiko Krahnke
    To Be Published June 30th 2013
  5. Boundary-Spanning in Organizations: Network, Influence and Conflict
    Edited by Cary Cooper, Janice Langan-Fox
    To Be Published August 13th 2013
  6. Text/Work: Representing Organization and Organizing Representation
    Edited by Stephen Linstead
    To Be Published September 26th 2013
  7. The Poetic Logic of Administration: Styles and Changes of Style in the Art of Organizing
    By Kaj Skoldberg
    To Be Published September 26th 2013
  8. Management and Organization of Temporary Agency Work
    Edited by Bas A.S. Koene, Nathalie Galais, Christina Garsten
    To Be Published September 30th 2013
  9. Managerial Cultures: A Comparative Historical Analysis
    By David Hanson
    To Be Published October 14th 2013
  10. Organizations and the Media: Organizing in a Mediatized World
    Edited by Josef Pallas, Lars Strannegård
    To Be Published November 30th 2013

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