Critically Constituting Organization
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ISBN 9780585462011
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 considering the work of Foucault in the context of the analysis of culture. While Foucault has had a considerable impact on organization studies, up to the present no text has systematically addressed what happens to organization culture when it encounter a Foucauldian gaze. Read this book and you will find out.
Stewart Clegg, UTS, Sydney
[Advances in Organization Studies, 5] 2000. xvi, 150 pp.
Publishing status: Available
© John Benjamins Publishing Company
Table of Contents
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Foreword by Stewart R. Clegg | p. ix
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Introduction | p. xiii
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PART I. HISTORY
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1. The Conditions of Organization Studies | p. 3
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2. Culture as Discourse | p. 11
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3. Critically Representing Culture | p. 21
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PART II. KNOWLEDGE
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4. Postmodernism and Organization Theory | p. 41
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5. Towards a Genealogy of Organizational Culture | p. 57
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PART III. POWER
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6. Discourse and Regimes of Truth | p. 71
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7. Postmodern Critique and Organization Studies | p. 89
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8. Conclusion: Critically Constituting Organization | p. 113
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Notes | p. 119
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“
Critically Constituting Organization has new and important things to say on organization theory and on Foucault both of which I find very interesting and persuasive, and as a book it contributes to the current debates.”
Gibson Burrell (Warwick Business School, Warwick University)
“This book evaluates the hottest topic in management studies of the last twenty years — organizational culture — by way of a perspective representative of the hottest social theoretician of recent times, Foucault.”
John Hassard (Manchester School of Management, UMIST)
“Andrew Chan has written a probing and polished account of contemporary theorizing in organization studies. The work cuts across a wide range of so-called radical organizational theories and is as critical of critical theory as it is of the narrowing mainstream. I am most struck by the novelty of Chan’s arguments and his reassessment of the meaning of work, freedom and dignity in the deepening shadows of deindustrialization and globalization. Both analytic and evocative, Andrew Chan makes a valuable contribution to the increasingly intense and heated conversation on the uses (and abuses) of power of, in and around organizations.”
John Van Maanen (Erwin Schell Professor of Organization Studies, MIT)
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Subjects
Miscellaneous
Main BIC Subject
KJM: Management & management techniques
Main BISAC Subject
BUS085000: BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Organizational Behavior