- Paperback: 242 pages
- Publisher: University of Chicago Press (10 April 1997)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0226132293
- ISBN-13: 978-0226132297
- Product Dimensions: 23 x 15.5 x 1.6 cm
- Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 727,309 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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Investigating the intricacy of the organization, this work argues that it is necessary to gather local information about organizational life and subject it to abstract and metaphorical interpretation. Using a narrative approach, the author employs literary devices to uncover the workings of organizations. She applys 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 study discloses the paradoxical nature of organizational life: we follow routine in order to change, and decentralize in order to control.
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This book is seminal and is essential reading for anyone interested in organizations. The book provides a compelling constructionist account of the discursive construction of organizations. Quite simply, it is one of the best organization theory books to have been written in the history of the field.
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Do organisations have identity? If yes, what is it? Can you express it? What for? All these questions have interesting answers. You find them in this book.
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