Writing organization : (re)presentation and control in narratives at work / / Carl Rhodes

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910968756403321
• Autore: Rhodes Carl <1967->
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Amsterdam ; ; Philadelphia, : J. Benjamins, c2001
• ISBN: 9786612162633; 9781282162631; 1282162632; 9789027298362; 902729836X
• Edizione: [1st ed.]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (150 p.)
• Collana: Advances in organization studies, , 1566-1075 ; ; 7
• Disciplina: 808/.06665
• Soggetti: Business report writing; Research - Methodology; Organization
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. [119]-126) and indexes.
• Nota di contenuto: Writing Organization -- Editorial page -- Title page -- LCC data -- Table of contents -- Acknowledgments -- Pre-text: On writing a research monograph -- Part 1: Writing about organizations -- Chapter 1. Introduction: Writing, representation and research -- Chapter 2. Storytelling and the heteroglossic organization -- Chapter 3. Writing the heteroglossic organization -- Part 2: (Re)presentations -- Chapter 4. World Services: An official story -- Chapter 5. World Services: Three autobiographical (re)presentations -- Chapter 6. World Services: An ethnographic (re)presentation -- Chapter 7. World Services: A fictional (re)presentation -- Part 3: Closing the text -- Chapter 8. The politics of being conclusive -- Post-text: Pragmatic comments on having written -- Bibliography -- Name index -- Subject index -- Advances in Organization Studies.
• Sommario/riassunto: Carl Rhodes examines the implicit power of writing and authorship that is at play when people and organisations are (re)presented in research. To explore this, the book reports a research project in the area of organisational storytelling that investigates how people in one ; organisation used stories to (re)present their own learning experiences from the implementation of a quality management program. This research is written in three principal genres: autobiography, ethnography and a fictional short story. These (re)presentational strategies are reviewed to examine how different genres effect authority in different ways. Drawing extensively on the work of Mikhail Bakhtin and on writers associated with postmodernism and poststructuralism, the book offers a challenging discussion of what organisational research might be when the notion of the equivalence of reality and representation is radically questioned.