Publications

Publication details [#26384]

Boden, Deirdre. 1994. The business of talk. Organizations in action. Polity Press. X+272 pp.

Publication type

Book – monograph

Publication language

English

Keywords

conversational analysis | ethnomethodology | talk-in-interaction

Annotation

This book investigates organizational meetings from a conversation-analytic perspective and sets out to exchange organizational theory's dominant structural top-down quantitative modeling approach for a more flexible and dynamic concept of management of organizations.

Reviewed by

ten Have, Paul. 1994. Review of $The business of talk. Organizations in action.