Organization Analysis and Development
A Social Construction of Organizational Behaviour
Published on 26. August 1987
Book
Hardback
284 pages
978-0-471-91227-9 (ISBN)
Description
A volume of original contributions which fit within a broadly interactionist approach to the analysis and the development of organizations. It consists of chapters upon the nature of qualitative research, some aspects of theory construction, and a number of chapters looking in detail at notions such as improvisation, argument, rhetoric of participation, bureaucracy, and innovation. The book gives a provocative and stimulating slant on conduct in organizations and will be of interest to students, teachers and researchers in organizational behaviour and management studies.
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Series
Language
English
Place of publication
Chichester
United Kingdom
Publishing group
John Wiley and Sons Ltd
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Illustrations
illustrations, bibliography, index
Dimensions
Height: 230 mm
Width: 150 mm
Weight
590 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-471-91227-9 (9780471912279)
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Content
Introduction: Offending the Audience; A Matter of Context; Choosing Action Research: A Rationale; Analysing the Production of Meeting Talk: 'Multiple Solicits' and their Treatment; Argument in Organizations; Improvising Order; From Harmony to Counterpoint: Reconstructing Problems in an Organization; The Role of Strategy in a Technological Innovation: A Re-Assessment; Social Criticism: A Social Critical Practice Applied to a Discourse on Participation; The Pathos of Bureaucracy; Social Beings as Hostages: Organizational and Societal Conduct Answering to a Siege Paradigm of Interaction.