Community action and organizational change : image, narrative, identity / Brenton D. Faber.

By:

Faber, Brenton D, 1968-

Material type: Text

text

Media type:

computer

Carrier type:

online resource

ISBN:

0585457034
9780585457031

Subject(s): Additional physical formats: Print version:: Community action and organizational change.DDC classification:

658.4/062 21

LOC classification:

HD58.8 .F3 2002eb

Online resources:

EBSCOhost

Contents:

Introduction: Rodeo -- Reading the Stories of Change -- Time, Habits, and Change: Brokers, Bankers, and the Old West -- Narratives and Organizational Change: Stories from Academe -- Image: Power, Rhetoric, and Change -- Discordance and Realignment: Stories from the Final Frontier -- Organizational Change as Community Action.

Review: "Brenton D. Faber's account of an academic consultant's journey through banks, ghost towns, cemeteries, schools, and political campaigns explores the tenuous relationships between cultural narratives and organizational change."Summary: "Blending Faber's firsthand experiences in the study and implementation of change with theoretical discussions of identity, agency, structure, and resistance within contexts of change, Community Action and Organizational Change is among the first such communications studies to profile a scholar who is also a full participant in the projects. Drawing on theories of Michael Foucault, Anthony Giddens, and Pierre Bourdieu, Faber notes that in contexts of change, the usual oppositions between structure and agency, complicity and resistance, even fiction and nonfiction no longer hold. Instead, change takes place in the realm of narrative, in the stories people tell."Summary: "Featuring six illustrations, Faber's unique study demonstrates in both style and substance how stories work as agents of change."--Jacket

Holdings ( 1 )
Title notes ( 8 )

Holdings
Item type	Current library	Collection	Call number	Status	Date due	Barcode	Item holds
eBook	e-Library	EBSCO Business		Available

Total holds: 0

Includes bibliographical references (pages 207-213) and index.

Print version record.

"Brenton D. Faber's account of an academic consultant's journey through banks, ghost towns, cemeteries, schools, and political campaigns explores the tenuous relationships between cultural narratives and organizational change."

"Blending Faber's firsthand experiences in the study and implementation of change with theoretical discussions of identity, agency, structure, and resistance within contexts of change, Community Action and Organizational Change is among the first such communications studies to profile a scholar who is also a full participant in the projects. Drawing on theories of Michael Foucault, Anthony Giddens, and Pierre Bourdieu, Faber notes that in contexts of change, the usual oppositions between structure and agency, complicity and resistance, even fiction and nonfiction no longer hold. Instead, change takes place in the realm of narrative, in the stories people tell."

"Featuring six illustrations, Faber's unique study demonstrates in both style and substance how stories work as agents of change."--Jacket

English.

Added to collection customer.56279.3