SubjectsMiscellaneous / Industrial & organizational studies
Book series
ISSN 1566-1075
Journal
Concepts and Transformation
International Journal of Action Research and Organizational Renewal
Edited by Richard Ennals, Werner Fricke and Øyvind Pålshaugen
ISSN 1384-6639 | E‑ISSN 1569‑9692
Translating at Work: Paraprofessional translation in organizations
Edited by Kaisa Koskinen
In the daily life of multilingual and multinational organizations, knowledge, ideas and practices are constantly crossing borders and boundaries. To make this movement happen, employees of many fields beyond professional translation participate in translating across languages, organizational and… read more
The Evaluation of Language Regimes: Theory and application to multilingual patent organisations
Michele Gazzola
Building on existing analytical frameworks, this book provides a new methodology allowing different language policies in international multilingual organisations (or “language regimes”) to be compared and evaluated on the basis of criteria such as efficiency and fairness. It explains step-by-step… read more[Multilingualism and Diversity Management, 3] 2014. xxi, 380 pp.
Power Without Domination: Dialogism and the empowering property of communication
Edited by Eric Grillo
The volume provides a multidisciplinary approach of the discursive dimension of power. It challenges the usual conception of discourse and power that underlies most of the current theories in contemporary discourse analysis, and shows that it is unsatisfying in so far as it reduces power to… read more[Discourse Approaches to Politics, Society and Culture, 12] 2005. xviii, 246 pp.
Action Research in Workplace Innovation and Regional Development
Edited by Werner Fricke and Peter Totterdill
The past is an increasingly unreliable guide to the future. European workplaces and the regions in which they are located face unprecedented pressures and challenges. Whereas in recent decades incremental adaptation has largely been sufficient to cope with external change, it is no longer… read more[Dialogues on Work and Innovation, 15] 2004. x, 355 pp.
Getting Things Done at Work: The discourse of power in workplace interaction
Bernadette Vine
The linguistic study of workplace language is a new and exciting area of research. This book explores the expression of power in a New Zealand workplace through examination of 52 everyday interactions between four women and their colleagues. The main focus of this research is the expression of… read more[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 124] 2004. x, 278 pp.
The Spatial Construction of Organization
Tor Hernes
An important challenge to organization theory is to search for constructs that explain how contexts for work emerge, evolve, persist and change. This book explores the concept of "space" as representing a wide variety of contexts. Organization as a process, as distinguished from organization as an… read more[Advances in Organization Studies, 12] 2004. xx, 165 pp.
Discourses of Post-Bureaucratic Organization
Rick A.M. Iedema
This book considers the discourses that come into play in organizational change. The book outlines the tensions that arise for people having to enact change, and analyzes the ways in which they position themselves in changing organizational environments. The book takes a social semiotic perspective… read more[Document Design Companion Series, 5] 2003. xiv, 234 pp.
Narratives We Organize By
Edited by Barbara Czarniawska and Pasquale Gagliardi
This book is a collection of texts that explore the analogy between organizing and narrating, between action and text. The raw material of everyday organizational life consists of disconnected fragments, physical and verbal actions that do not make sense when reported with simple chronology.… read more[Advances in Organization Studies, 11] 2003. x, 276 pp.
The Civilized Organization: Norbert Elias and the future of organization studies
Edited by Ad van Iterson, Willem Mastenbroek, Tim Newton and Dennis Smith
This book brings a major new resource to organization studies: the work of Norbert Elias. By applying his ideas in a critical but sympathetic way, the authors provide a new perspective on the never-ending stream of management fads and fashions. Standing back and taking a more detached perspective,… read more[Advances in Organization Studies, 10] 2002. xxviii, 251 pp.
Management and Organization Paradoxes
Edited by Stewart R. Clegg
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… read more[Advances in Organization Studies, 9] 2002. vii, 330 pp.
Researching Enterprise Development: Action Research on the cooperation between management and labour in Norway
Edited by Morten Levin
Researching Enterprise Development is written by the key researchers of a large Norwegian Action Research program on enterprise development (Enterprise Development 2000). This book tells the stories of how the seven participating modules were developed, created and sustained as Action Research… read more[Dialogues on Work and Innovation, 14] 2002. viii, 267 pp.
Creating Connectedness: The role of social research in innovation policy
Bjørn Gustavsen, Håkon Finne and Bo Oscarsson
Using a workplace development program as source of experience the book deals with the development of innovation processes. Since innovation means to explore the unique and the special to bring forth what does not (yet) exist, each innovation process must in itself be an innovation. The study… read more[Dialogues on Work and Innovation, 13] 2001. x, 281 pp.
Reading and Writing Public Documents
Edited by Daniël Janssen and Rob Neutelings
Governments communicate with the public through all kinds of documents: forms, brochures, letters, policy papers, and so on. These public documents have an important role in any democracy and their design very much affects the efficiency with which governments can perform their tasks.Document… read more[Document Design Companion Series, 1] 2001. vi, 304 pp.
Web Site Design is Communication Design
Thea M. van der Geest
Web Site Design is Communication Design is written for practitioners, trainers, and students of Communication, Business, Information Science and Media Design. This book is based on a series of case studies of web-site design processes in smaller and larger organizations, including Amazon and… read more[Document Design Companion Series, 2] 2001. viii, 165 pp.
Writing Organization: (Re)presentation and control in narratives at work
Carl Rhodes
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… read more[Advances in Organization Studies, 7] 2001. xvi, 134 pp.
Critically Constituting Organization
Andrew Chan
In the past, contingency and neo-Marxist theorists of culture reduced culture to an effect of something other than itself and, as they made culture metaphorical, they constituted its object of inquiry — a somewhat impossible pretension. This book extends the debate considerably. It does so through… read more[Advances in Organization Studies, 5] 2000. xvi, 149 pp.
Embedding Organizations: Societal analysis of actors, organizations and socio-economic context
Edited by Marc Maurice and Arndt Sorge
The widely discussed ‘globalization’ of economic activities has given rise to a renewed interest in the relations between such tendencies, the nature and demarcation of societies, and the nature and strategies of various actors and organizations within and cross-cutting societies. One approach to… read more[Advances in Organization Studies, 4] 2000. x, 433 pp.
European Union Discourses on Un/employment: An interdisciplinary approach to employment policy-making and organizational change
Peter Muntigl, Gilbert Weiss and Ruth Wodak
Employment is clearly one of those fields of political activity that reveal the manifold problems and difficulties accompanying the process of European integration and supranational institutionalization. In particular the conflict between supranationalists and intergovernmentalists and the degree… read more[Dialogues on Work and Innovation, 12] 2000. viii, 234 pp.
Fashion and Utopia in Management Thinking
René ten Bos
Why is it that people in organizations seem to be so vulnerable to management fashion and guruism? And why is it that both phenomena are loathed in traditional academic thinking about management and organization?In this book, René ten Bos argues for a more philosophical rather than scientific… read more[Advances in Organization Studies, 6] 2000. xvii, 224 pp.
National Capitalisms, Global Competition, and Economic Performance
Edited by Sigrid Quack, Glenn Morgan and Richard Whitley
Why are some firms successful on global markets whilst others are not? In this collection of papers, a group of distinguished international researchers examine the inter-relationship between national context, firm performance and global competitiveness. In a series of empirical studies covering… read more[Advances in Organization Studies, 3] 2000. xii, 322 pp.
The Organizing Property of Communication
François Cooren
What is an organization? What are the building blocks that ultimately constitute this social form, so pervasive in our daily life? Like Augustine facing the problem of time, we all know what an organization is, but we seem unable to explain it. This book brings an original answer by mobilizing… read more[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 65] 2000. xvi, 272 pp.
The End of the ‘Asian Model’?
Edited by Holger Henke and Ian Boxill
With the economic crisis in Asia, which unfolded in recent years, the development ‘model’ on which the phenomenal earlier success of several countries in the region was built requires increasing scrutiny. This anthology questions the validity of the notion promoted by some observers and… read more[Advances in Organization Studies, 2] 2000. x, 217 pp.
Using the Lamp instead of Looking into the Mirror: Women and men in discussion about the relationship between men and women in the work place
Ingrid Ljungberg van Beinum
This book focuses on the enigmatic relationship between men and women, and in particular on the subordination of women by men in the work place. The main points of departure are that subordination is a relational phenomenon and should therefore be approached in a relational context and that the… read more[Dialogues on Work and Innovation, 11] 2000. xviii, 186 pp.
Action Research: From practice to writing in an international action research development program
Edited by Davydd J. Greenwood
Supported bilaterally by Sweden and Norway, the Scandinavian Action Research Development Program (ACRES — Action Research in Scandinavia) emphasized conceptualizing research questions and self-conscious writing processes for experienced action researchers. Participants came from Norway, Sweden,… read more[Dialogues on Work and Innovation, 8] 1999. ix, 282 pp.
Changing Work Relationships in Industrialized Economies
Edited by Işik Urla Zeytinoğlu
This book examines changing work relationships in industrialized economies within the context of economic restructuring and demographic variables. The goal of this book is to examine experiences of industrialized economies in dealing with changing work relationships and discuss policy implications… read more[Advances in Organization Studies, 1] 1999. xx, 256 pp.
The End of Organization Theory?: Language as a tool in action research and organizational development
Øyvind Pålshaugen
Organizational theorists talk a lot about organizational development. Although they can express themselves eloquently, too often the practitioner is not convinced by their talk. The authors of The End of Organization Theory? are in favor of the doers doing most of the talking themselves. Thus, in… read more[Dialogues on Work and Innovation, 5] 1999. vi, 149 pp.
Resources for Renewal: A participatory approach to the modernization of municipal organizations in Finland
Edited by Satu Kalliola and Risto Nakari
In the 1990s, the public sector has experienced the same kind of productivity pressures as has the private sector in most of the western countries. In Finland, the state and the local government organs have pursued to meet these demands by cutting down their personnel costs and by applying various… read more[Dialogues on Work and Innovation, 10] 1999. iv, 177 pp.
Searching: The theory and practice of making cultural change
Merrelyn Emery
Searching explains how to make the fundamental cultural change required for a desirable sustainable future. It describes the two-stage model of open-systems social science in action and covers two major methods: the Search Conference for strategic planning and community development; and the… read more[Dialogues on Work and Innovation, 4] 1999. xxiv, 258 pp.
Work Organization and Europe as a Development Coalition
Richard Ennals and Bjørn Gustavsen
Work Organization has achieved recent prominence in European policy, as new employment guidelines are embodied in the policies of all European Member States. New forms of Work Organization, properly understood, offer collaborative competitive advantage to European enterprises. This book, based on… read more[Dialogues on Work and Innovation, 7] 1999. viii, 209 pp.
Development Coalitions in Working Life: The ‘Enterprise Development 2000’ Program in Norway
Edited by Bjørn Gustavsen, Tom Colbjørnsen and Øyvind Pålshaugen
While the need to utilise knowledge from social research in processes of development in working life is growing, there is also a growing recognition of the problems posed by this utilisation. As the belief in universal reason and general theory about topics like work organization and leadership has… read more[Dialogues on Work and Innovation, 6] 1998. xi, 153 pp.
Beyond Theory: Changing organizations through participation
Edited by Stephen Toulmin and Bjørn Gustavsen
Action Research is one of the most practical and down-to-earth ways of doing research into working life. Beyond Theory draws on examples and actual cases to discuss action research within the framework of the modern, and postmodern, theory of science debate. While action research has been much… read more[Dialogues on Work and Innovation, 2] 1996. viii, 233 pp.
Concept-Driven Development and the Organization of the Process of Change: An evaluation of the Swedish Working Life Fund
Bjørn Gustavsen, Bernd Hofmaier, Marianne Ekman Philips and Anders Wikman
The Swedish Working Life Fund a temporary organization functioning from 1990 to 1995 distributed 10 billion Swedish crowns for workplace development and initiated 25,000 projects. About half of the total labor market was affected. This evaluation study, which is built on case studies as well as… read more[Dialogues on Work and Innovation, 3] 1996. ix, 198 pp.
Public Sector Transformation: Rethinking markets and hierarchies in government
Frieder Naschold † and Casten von Otter
State administration in modern industrialized countries is facing major challenges to its basic institutional premises. The changing conditions of the global economy mean that the public sector needs to develop far-reaching strategies for innovation. A fundamental reform of the public sector is… read more[Dialogues on Work and Innovation, 1] 1996. vi, 178 pp.