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Record Nr.

UNINA9910810368803321

Titolo

The language of organization / / edited by Robert Westwood and Stephen Linstead

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London ; ; Thousand Oaks, CA., : SAGE, 2001

ISBN

1-4462-1736-1

1-4462-6439-4

1-283-88068-7

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (x, 370 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

LinsteadStephen <1952->

WestwoodRobert Ian

Disciplina

302.35

Soggetti

Communication in organizations

Organizational behavior

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Nota di contenuto

Cover; Contents; Contributors; Chapter 1 - Language/Organization: Introduction; Part 1 - Language, Organization and Action; Chapter 2 - Talking Sense: Ethnomethodology, Postmodernism and Practical Action; Chapter 3 - Language That Organizes: Plans and Lists; Chapter 4 - The Language of Strategy; Part 2 - Metaphors of Organization; Chapter 5 - The Scripted Organization: Dramaturgy from Burke to Baudrillard; Chapter 6 - Mining for Meaning: Reading Organizations using Hermeneutic Philosophy; Chapter 7 - Reclaiming Story in Organization: Narratologies and Action Sciences

Part 3 - Language, Knowledge and PowerChapter 8 - The Prison-House of Language: The Penitential Discourse of Organizational Power; Chapter 9 - After Knowledge: The Language of Information; Chapter 10 - Rhetoric and Organizational Control: A Framework for Analysis; Part 4 - Organizing Silence; Chapter 11 -  Appropriating the other in the Discourses of Comparative Management; Chapter 12 - Telling it like it is? Gender, Language and Organizational Theory; Part 5 - Writing, Theory and Beyond; Chapter 13 - The Language of Organization Theory

Chapter 14 - Meaning Beyond Language? Monstrous OpeningsName Index; Subject Index



Sommario/riassunto

This text provides a forum where the relationship between language and organization is represented and critically explored. It deals with issues such as power, knowledge and organizational discourse.