Communication, Power and Organization

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List of contents

Frontmatter -- Preface -- Contents -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Information meeting about a new organization -- 3 The meeting as a culture-constitutive process -- The meeting as an expression of power and an occasion for discipline: a Foucault-inspired interpretation -- The information meeting as communicative distortion: a Habermas-inspired interpretation -- Summary and comments -- References -- Author index -- Backmatter

About the author

Mats Alvesson is Professor of Business Administration at the University of Lund, Sweden. Research interests include critical theory, gender, power, management of professional service (knowledge intensive) organizations, organizational culture and symbolism, qualitative methods and philosophy of science.

Product details

• Authors: Mats Alvesson
• Publisher: De Gruyter
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.01.1996
• EAN: 9783110148978
• ISBN: 978-3-11-014897-8
• No. of pages: 225
• Dimensions: 155 mm x 20 mm x 230 mm
• Weight: 490 g
• Illustrations: 1 b/w ill.
• Series: Gruyter Studies in Organization; de Gruyter Studies in Organization; de Gruyter Studies in Organization
• Subject: Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > General, dictionaries