Critically constituting organization

Critically constituting organization

by Chan, Andrew

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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 addresse…

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Title Statements

  • Full title :Critically constituting organization / Andrew Chan ; with a foreword by Stewart R. Clegg.

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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.

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Edition Statements

  • Publication Date:©2000.

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The Physical Object

  • Description:1 online resource (xv, 149 pages)

Edition Identifiers

  • ISBN:0585462011, 9780585462011, 902729979X, 9789027299796
  • oclc:ocm52743219
  • LC Classification:HD31
  • Dewey Decimal:302.3/5

Table of 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.

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Subjects

BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Negotiating Organization

Writers

Chan, Andrew

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