Management and organization paradoxes / / edited by Stewart R. Clegg

• Pubblicazione: Amsterdam ; ; Philadelphia, : John Benjamins Pub., c2002
• Edizione: 1st ed.
• Descrizione fisica: vi, 330 p. : ill
• Disciplina: 658/.001
• Soggetto topico: Management - Philosophy; Organization - Philosophy; Paradoxes
• Altri autori: CleggStewart
• Note generali: Rev. papers from the APROS 2000 conference in Sydney.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Management and Organization Paradoxes -- Editorial page -- Title page -- LCC data -- Table of contents -- Acknowledgements -- Chapter 1: General introduction -- Part I: Representing Paradoxes -- Chapter 2: Management, paradox, and permanent dialectics -- Chapter 3: The meanings of risk and interorganizational collaboration -- Chapter 4: Workers' playtime? -- Chapter 5: Paradox in symbols and subjects -- Chapter 6: Politics and popular culture -- Chapter 7: From value conflicts to multiple mandates -- Part II: Materialising Paradoxes -- Chapter 8: Organizational paradoxes and business ethics -- Chapter 9: Beyond the 'war for talent' hype -- Chapter 10: Expectations, emotions and money -- Chapter 11: Psychoanalysis and auditing -- Chapter 12: A paradox of governance -- Chapter 13: Multinationals, corporate governance and financial internationalisation -- Chapter 14: Managing the interconnected organization -- About the contributors -- Index -- Advances in Organisation Studies.
• Sommario/riassunto: Paradox - the simultaneous existence of two inconsistent states - has become orthodox. The orthodox is now the paradox. The orthodox world of ordering, controlling and organizing is increasingly opposed to a normalizing world of disordering, disrupting and disorganizing. And organization studies cannot avoid changing its conceptions of reality as that reality changes. In the future, organization studies will be the study of paradox, how to understand it, how to use it.In this book of original contributions addressed to management and organization paradoxes the authors address the new state of the field in terms of representations - representing paradoxes - and materialisations - materialising paradoxes. The themes - although varied, ranging from dialectics to internal tensions; from collaborations to ethics and value conflicts; from resistant labourers and wharfies to cartoon characters such as The Simpsons; from the irrationalities of finance to the psychoanalytic rationalities of auditing, and from issues of governance in Asian and international business to the composition of the new knowledge work force in the business professions - cohere around core aspects of paradoxicality.Overall, the contributions to Management and Organization Paradoxes are diverse and challenging. Each contribution takes a different angle on the central theme. All of the chapters illuminate diverse aspects of contemporary paradoxes in management and organization theory. The book provides, in each of its chapters, a challenge to the still overwhelmingly rationalist views of theory and practice that dominate the field and provides new directions for understanding organizations and management.The contributors are drawn from leading European, Australian and Latin American contributors.
• Titolo autorizzato: Management and organization paradoxes
• ISBN: 9786612255113; 9780585462509; 058546250X; 9789027297822; 9027297827; 9781282255111; 1282255118; 9789027233066; 9027233063
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910959931003321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Advances in organization studies ; ; 9.