Critically constituting organization / Andrew Chan ; with a foreword by Stewart R. Clegg.

By:

Chan, Andrew, 1960-

Material type: Text

text

Media type:

computer

Carrier type:

online resource

ISBN:

0585462011
9780585462011
902729979X
9789027299796

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Electronic books.

Additional physical formats: Print version:: Critically constituting organization.DDC classification:

302.3/5 22

LOC classification:

HD31 .C456 2000eb

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EBSCOhost

Contents:

CRITICALLY CONSTITUTING ORGANIZATION; Editorial page; Title page; LCC data; Dedication; Contents; Foreword; Introduction; PART I: HISTORY; Chapter 1. The Conditions of Organization Studies; Chapter 2. Culture as Discourse; Chapter 3. Critically Representing Culture; PART I I: KNOWLEDGE; Chapter 4. Postmodernism and Organization Theory; Chapter 5. Towards a Genealogy of Organizational Culture; PART III: POWER; Chapter 6. Discourse and Regimes of Truth; Chapter 7. Postmodern Critique and Organization Studies; Chapter 8. Conclusion Critically Constituting Organization; Notes; References; Index.

Summary: In the past, contingency and neo-Marxist theorists of culture reduced culture to an effect of something other than itself and, as they made culture metaphorical, they constituted its object of inquiry -- a somewhat impossible pretension. This book extends the debate considerably. It does so through considering the work of Foucault in the context of the analysis of culture. While Foucault has had a considerable impact on organization studies, up to the present no text has systematically addressed what happens to organization culture when it encounter a Foucauldian gaze. Read this book and you wi.

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Includes bibliographical references (pages 131-144) and index.

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In the past, contingency and neo-Marxist theorists of culture reduced culture to an effect of something other than itself and, as they made culture metaphorical, they constituted its object of inquiry -- a somewhat impossible pretension. This book extends the debate considerably. It does so through considering the work of Foucault in the context of the analysis of culture. While Foucault has had a considerable impact on organization studies, up to the present no text has systematically addressed what happens to organization culture when it encounter a Foucauldian gaze. Read this book and you wi.