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Informationen zum Autor Yiannis Gabriel is Professor of Organizational Theory at Royal Holloway, University of London. Earlier he held posts at Imperial College and the University of Bath. Yiannis has a degree in Mechanical Engineering from Imperial College London, where he also carried out post-graduate studies in industrial sociology. He has a PhD in Sociology from the University of California, Berkeley. Yiannis is well known for his work on organizational storytelling and narratives, leadership, management learning, and the culture and politics of contemporary consumption. He has used stories as a way of studying numerous social and organizational phenomena, including leader-follower relations, group dynamics and fantasies, nostalgia, insults, and apologies. More recently, he has explored the education of managers and leaders in institutions of higher education and the ways in which MBAs influence professional practice. Klappentext Over 200 core terms in the social sciences are considered in self-contained essaysCovers a wide range of theoretical approaches! incl. post-modernism! narrative and discourse theory! gender and feminist studies! critical theory and psychoanalysisInvaluable resource for essay-writing and useful tool in planning and carrying out projects and dissertationsExplores how words organize ourselves! our thoughts! and our universeCross-referencing system to entries and throughoutIncl. bibliography of key sources Zusammenfassung Organizing Words includes a series of essays on some 220 widely used - and much debated - terms in the social sciences, and organization studies. Each essay explores the meaning and use of the word; and also the controversies they may have sparked. The book aims to be a first port of call for students, researchers, and scholars.
