Organizational Imaginaries

Organizational Imaginaries
Author: Katherine K. Chen
Publisher: Emerald Group Publishing
Total Pages: 372
Release: 2021-03-24
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 183867991X

This volume explores an expansive array of organizational imaginaries, or conceptions of organizational possibilities, with a focus on collectivist-democratic organizations, to showcase how organizations can ultimately support and serve broader communities.

Research in Organizational Change and Development

Research in Organizational Change and Development
Author: Abraham B. (Rami) Shani
Publisher: Emerald Group Publishing
Total Pages: 296
Release: 2021-11-26
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1802621733

Volume 29 of Research in Organizational Change and Development includes ten contributions from colleagues around the globe with powerful insights and potentially relevant impact for researching and practicing organization change and development during and post the pandemic.

Research Handbook on the Sociology of Organizations

Research Handbook on the Sociology of Organizations
Author: Godwyn, Mary
Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
Total Pages: 576
Release: 2022-06-10
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1839103264

With original contributions from leading experts in the field, this cutting-edge Research Handbook combines theoretical advancement with the newest empirical research to explore the sociology of organizations. While including the traditional study of formal, corporate business organizations, the Handbook also explores more transitory, informal grassroots organizations, such as NGOs and artist communities.

Organizing Creativity in the Innovation Journey

Organizing Creativity in the Innovation Journey
Author: Elke Schuessler
Publisher: Emerald Group Publishing
Total Pages: 320
Release: 2021-09-17
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1839828749

This volume brings together empirical and conceptual papers that go beyond questions of idea generation to account for the dynamics of idea development, judgement, and dissemination – processes which are at the heart of organizing for innovation.

Organizing for Societal Grand Challenges

Organizing for Societal Grand Challenges
Author: Ali Aslan Gümüsay
Publisher: Emerald Group Publishing
Total Pages: 320
Release: 2022-03-29
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1839098260

The ebook edition of this title is Open Access and freely available to read online. Organizing for Societal Grand Challenges unpacks how diverse forms of organizing help tackle-or reinforce-grand challenges,while emphasizing the need for researchers to expand their methodological repertoire and reflect upon scholarly practices.

Bits of Organization

Bits of Organization
Author: Alison Pullen
Publisher: Copenhagen Business School Press DK
Total Pages: 210
Release: 2009
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 9788763002240

The academic study of organizations is in a condition of heterodoxy, where diverse methods and theories collide and compete, gathered together only in the broken net of a name. This book assembles some of the bits that break off in the process of this collision. It plays with the already contested boundaries - 'correct images' and 'correct narratives' - of a legitimate organization studies, so as to attest to a destabilization of any theory and method that would desire to capture, reproduce, and indoctrinate knowledge. The book brings together a group of original thinkers and writers, who push the boundaries of innovative and unconventional work as governed by prevailing standards in the dominant bastions of organization studies.

Organizing Food, Faith and Freedom

Organizing Food, Faith and Freedom
Author: Ozan Nadir Alakavuklar
Publisher: Policy Press
Total Pages: 200
Release: 2024-05-30
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1529216257

Consumerism, unsustainable growth, waste and inequalities continue to ail societies across the globe, but creative collectives have been tackling these issues at a grassroots level. Based on an autoethnographic study about a free food store in Aotearoa New Zealand, this book presents a first-hand account of how a community is organized around surplus food to deal with food poverty, while also helping the reader to see through the complexity that brings the free food store to life. Examining how alternative economies and relations emerge from these community solutions, the author shows it is possible to think, act and organize differently within and beyond capitalist dynamics.

Reconstructing Organization

Reconstructing Organization
Author: Damian P. O'Doherty
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 331
Release: 2016-12-27
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1137489227

This unique book breaks original ground in management and organization studies by drawing on over 21⁄2 years of ethnographic study in a major UK international airport group. Much has been written about the ‘McDonaldisation’ or ‘Disneyization’ of society, but few have been attentive to what the author terms ‘Loungification of society’. A minor mode of organization, but one whose effects are likely to become ever more profound, this study shows how management and organization is itself being reconstructed and reshaped by way of loungification. Drawing on critical management studies, actor-network theory, and debates in contemporary anthropology around the so-called ontological turn, Reconstructing Organization enacts a veritable experiment in business and management studies. Who are these coming loungers? What do they want? Can we manage them? Or will they soon capture us with their talking chairs and ‘crinicultural’ politics?

Religion, Discourse, and Society

Religion, Discourse, and Society
Author: Marcus Moberg
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 220
Release: 2021-12-30
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1000530469

This book focuses on the utility and application of discourse theory and discourse analysis in the sociological study of religious change. It presents an outline of what a ‘discursive sociology of religion’ looks like and brings scholarly attention to the role of language and discourse as a significant component in contemporary processes of religious change. Marcus Moberg addresses the concept of discourse and its main meta-theoretical underpinnings and discusses the relationship between discourse and ‘religion’ in light of previous research. The chapters explore key notions such as secularism and public religion as well as the ideational and discursive impact of individualism and market society on the contemporary Western religious field. In addition to providing scholars with a thorough understanding and appreciation of the analytic utility of discourse theory and analysis in the sociological study of religious change, the book offers a cohesive and systematized framework for actual empirical analysis.

University Collegiality and the Erosion of Faculty Authority

University Collegiality and the Erosion of Faculty Authority
Author: Kerstin Sahlin
Publisher: Emerald Group Publishing
Total Pages: 272
Release: 2023-11-30
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1804558168

The ebook edition of this title is Open Access and freely available to read online. Revealing the globalization, homogenization and variation that have come to characterize the collegiate system, this volume considers the future of the higher education system, and how we can consciously shape it moving forward.