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Forthcoming Organizational Studies Books

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Forthcoming Books

  1. Storytelling in Management Practice

    Dynamics and Implications

    By Stefanie Reissner, Victoria Pagan

    Series: Routledge Studies in Management, Organizations and Society

    Since the early 2000s, storytelling as a means of managerial communication has been increasingly advocated, with a focus on the management practices of leadership, change and organizational culture. Most research on storytelling in management practice derives from practitioner experience, but...

    To Be Published May 26th 2013 by Routledge

  2. Identity, Feeling and Sociality at Work

    Affective Organizing

    By David Grant, Rick Iedema, Carl Rhodes, Hermine Scheeres

    Series: Routledge Studies in Management, Organizations and Society

    The aim of this book is to examine the ways that contemporary organizing draws increasingly on the affective dimensions of worker sociality. The book explores the different ways that such kinds of affectivity have come to the fore in the contemporary ‘post-bureaucratic’ modes of work that...

    To Be Published May 31st 2013 by Routledge

  3. Communication or Conflict

    Conferences: their nature, dynamics, and planning

    Edited by Mary Capes

    Tavistock Press was established as a co-operative venture between the Tavistock Institute and Routledge & Kegan Paul (RKP) in the 1950s to produce a series of major contributions across the social sciences. This volume is part of a 2001 reissue of a selection of those important works which have...

    To Be Published May 31st 2013 by Routledge

  4. The Surveillance-Industrial Complex

    A Political Economy of Surveillance

    Edited by Kirstie Ball, Laureen Snider

    Today’s ‘surveillance society’ emerged from a complex of military and corporate priorities that were nourished through the active and ‘cold’ wars that marked the twentieth century. Two massive configurations of power – state and corporate – have become the dominant players. Mass targeted...

    To Be Published June 18th 2013 by Routledge

  5. Hierarchy and Organisation

    Toward a General Theory of Hierarchical Social Systems

    By Thomas Diefenbach

    Series: Routledge Studies in Management, Organizations and Society

    Most people take the conditions they work and live in as a given, believing it to be normal that societies are stratified and that organisations are hierarchical. Many even think that this is the way it should be - and are neither willing nor able to think that it could be otherwise. This book...

    To Be Published June 25th 2013 by Routledge

  6. Organizing through Empathy

    Edited by Kathryn Pavlovich, Keiko Krahnke

    Series: Routledge Studies in Management, Organizations and Society

    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...

    To Be Published June 30th 2013 by Routledge

  7. Cross-Cultural Management

    Culture and Management across the World

    Edited by Jean-François Chanlat, Eduardo Davel, Jean-Pierre Dupuis

    All cultures appear to share the belief that they do things ‘correctly’, while others, until proven otherwise, are assumed to be ignorant or barbaric. When people from different cultures work together and cannot take shared meanings for granted, managers face serious challenges. An individual’s...

    To Be Published July 1st 2013 by Routledge

  8. Conversations about Calling

    Advancing Management Perspectives

    By Valerie Myers

    Conversations about Calling explores management perspectives on the calling construct. Using Max Weber’s seminal work, Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism, as a starting point, Myers seeks to enrich management perspectives on calling by integrating the contributions of other...

    To Be Published July 2nd 2013 by Routledge

  9. Global Themes and Local Variations in Organization and Management

    Perspectives on Glocalization

    Edited by Gili S. Drori, Markus A. Höllerer, Peter Walgenbach

    Global Themes and Local Variations in Organization and Management: Perspectives on Glocalization offers a wide-scoped exposition of the relations between the global and the local in regards to organizational and managerial ideas, practices, and forms. This edited volume forges ahead to capture the...

    To Be Published July 22nd 2013 by Routledge

  10. The Psychology of Workplace Technology

    Edited by Michael D. Coovert, Lori Foster Thompson

    Series: SIOP Organizational Frontiers Series

    Recent advances in technology have dramatically altered the manner in which organizations function, transforming the way people think about and perform their work. The implications of these trends continue to evolve as emerging innovations adapt to and are adapted by organizations, workers, and...

    To Be Published July 28th 2013 by Routledge