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Material Type: | Internet resource |
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Document Type: | Book, Internet Resource |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Barbara Czarniawska |
ISBN: | 9780199252718 0199252718 |
OCLC Number: | 837778049 |
Awards: | Winner of Wihuri International Prize, Board of the Wihuri Foundation in Helsinki, Finland. |
Description: | 161 Seiten Karten |
Contents: | 1. Studying Management in a Glocalized City ; 2. 'The European Capital': The Work of Representation in Identity and Alterity Construction ; 3. Traffic and Transport, or the Difficulties of Reframing ; 4. Europeanization: Coercion or Mimesis? ; 5. The Invention of Tradition and Social Memory ; 6. City Management in its Cultural Context ; 7. The Fashionable City |
Responsibility: | Barbara Czarniawska |
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Review from other book by this author A stunningly original invitation for social scientists to rethink their craft and recraft their thinking. Czarniawska ponders the abstract catchwords of organization theory and rewords them into challenging new possibilities. Writing Management is vivid proof that the path to enlightenment lies in blurred genres. This is a book whose impact is subtle, deep, and tacit. * Karl E. Weick, Rensis Likert Collegiate Professor of Organizational Behavior and Psychology at the University of Michigan * Most theory and research on organizations is qualitative and interpretive, and case studies remain the dominant working style in the field. But canons of argumentation and presentation celebrate more quantitative styles - formal, causal, and scientific in the conventional sense. Barbara Czarniawska is a leader in the contemporary movement to bring the research and writing canons in close correspondence with how most work really goes on. Her vision is of the narrativerather than the causal model, and of the narrative containing multiple perspectives at that. Her book will be used and valued by all those who want to study and teach about organizations in a broader, more qualitative, and more interpretive and postmodern vein. * John W. Meyer, Professor of Sociology, Stanford University * Read more...

