How Speech Acting and the Struggle of Narratives Generate Organization

The book investigates the relation between knowledge and politics, between describing the world and changing it, between cognitive - sensing - and volitional - wilful - processes and goes on to describe how speech-acting organizes, reorganizes - and destroys organizations.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Part 1: Questions and Approach
1. Questions and Approach. Some Hypotheses. Some Already Suggested Answers
2. A Realistic Paradigm
3. Problem, Materials and Methods of Analysis
4. Questions of Speech-Acts, Narrative Struggles and the Organization of Norwegian Fisheries
Part 2: How Speech-Acting in Context Organizes
5. The Language Institution
6. Speech-Acting, Narratives and Organization
7. How Institutions and Institutional Dynamics Affect Reasoning in the Gap
Part 3: Struggles Over Organizing
8. Competing Narratives of the Firm in a Capital Producing Market Economy
9. The Speech Act Theory of Innovativeness and Innovations
10. Discourse Mode Changes in Organizations and Societies
Part 4: Political and Private Organization. Narratives, Identities and Power in Norwegian Fisheries
11. From Private to Public and Political Power
12. The Speech Act Theory of Organization and New Technology in Norwegian Fisheries
Part 5: The Pressure for Democracy
13. The Narrativity of Leadership and Management in Organizations
14. How Competing Ideas of Society Permeate Organizations, Daily Life and Personalities in Norwegian Fisheries
Conclusion

Über den Autor / die Autorin

Thorvald Gran is a Professor Emeritus of Political Science at the University of Bergen, Norway.

Zusammenfassung

The book investigates the relation between knowledge and politics, between describing the world and changing it, between cognitive – sensing - and volitional – wilful – processes and goes on to describe how speech-acting organizes, reorganizes - and destroys organizations.

Produktdetails

• Autoren: Thorvald Gran, Thorvald (University of Bergen Gran, Gran Thorvald
• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Sprache: Englisch
• Produktform: Fester Einband
• Erschienen: 18.07.2017
• EAN: 9781138638488
• ISBN: 978-1-138-63848-8
• Seiten: 258
• Serien: Routledge Studies in Management, Organizations and Society; Routledge Studies in Management, Organizations and Society; Routledge Studies in Managemen
• Themen: Naturwissenschaften, Medizin, Informatik, Technik > Naturwissenschaften allgemein; Ratgeber > Recht, Beruf, Finanzen; Sachbuch > Politik, Gesellschaft, Wirtschaft > Politik; Sozialwissenschaften, Recht,Wirtschaft > Politikwissenschaft > Politische Wissenschaft und Politische Bildung; Business & Economics / General, Economics, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Organizational Behavior, Organizational theory & behaviour, Politics and government, Sociology: work & labour, Society and culture: general, Development Studies, Organizational theory and behaviour, Sociology: work and labour