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New Practices of Inquiry Ser.: Narrating the Organization : Dramas of Institutional Identity by Barbara. Czarniawska (1997, Trade Paperback)
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Product Identifiers
PublisherUniversity of Chicago Press
ISBN-100226132293
ISBN-139780226132297
eBay Product ID (ePID)167034
Product Key Features
Number of Pages242 Pages
LanguageEnglish
Publication NameNarrating the Organization : Dramas of Institutional Identity
Publication Year1997
SubjectOrganizational Behavior, Public Affairs & Administration, Anthropology / Cultural & Social, Economics / Theory, Corporate & Business History
TypeTextbook
AuthorBarbara. Czarniawska
Subject AreaPolitical Science, Social Science, Business & Economics
SeriesNew Practices of Inquiry Ser.
FormatTrade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height0.1 in
Item Weight12.4 Oz
Item Length0.9 in
Item Width0.6 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceScholarly & Professional
LCCN96-020954
Dewey Edition21
Dewey Decimal302.35
Table Of ContentAcknowledgments Introduction, or Complex Phenomena Need Complex Metaphors 1: The Narrative in Culture Studies 2: On Dramas and Autobiographies in the Organizational Context 3: Interpretive Studies of Organizations: The Logic of Inquiry 4: Enacting Routines for Change 5: Serials: Innovation and Repetition 6: Talking Numbers: Preferences and Traditions 7: A Quest for Identity 8: Paradoxical Material 9: Changing Devices 10: Constructing Narratives Notes References Index
SynopsisThe most common social phenomenon of Western societies is the organization, yet those involved in real-world managing are not always willing to reveal the intricacies of their everyday muddles. Barbara Czarniawska argues that in order to understand these uncharted territories, we need to gather local and concrete stories about organizational life and subject them to abstract and metaphorical interpretation. Using a narrative approach unique to organizational studies, Czarniawska employs literary devices to uncover the hidden workings of organizations. She applies cultural metaphors to public administration in Sweden to demonstrate, for example, how the dynamics of a screenplay can illuminate the budget disputes of an organization. She shows how the interpretive description of organizational worlds works as a distinct genre of social analysis, and her investigations ultimately disclose the paradoxical nature of organizational life: we follow routines in order to change, and decentralize in order to control. By confronting such paradoxes, we bring crisis to existing institutions and enable them to change.
LC Classification NumberHD58.7.C93 1997
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