Management Scholarship and Organisational Change - Representing Burns and Stalker

Miriam Green argues that representations of Burns and Stalker¿s text, fully legitimated in the academy in the UK and the US, are highly contestable and have important consequences for the understanding of change initiatives on the part of practitioners such as managers and consultants.

List of contents

Foreword
Acknowledgements
1. Introduction
2. Meanings of texts
3. Representations of texts
4. Textual analysis
5. Paradigm commensurabilities
6. The academy
7. Science versus scientificity
8. Dialectical oppositions
9. Conclusions
Index

About the author

Miriam Green was for many years a Senior Lecturer at London Metropolitan University and is currently teaching at Icon College of Technology and Management. She completed a PhD in Organisation Studies, on which this book is based, and has also written journal articles and book chapters in this field. Her current research interests include critiques of neo-liberalism and postmodernism.

Summary

Miriam Green argues that representations of Burns and Stalker’s text, fully legitimated in the academy in the UK and the US, are highly contestable and have important consequences for the understanding of change initiatives on the part of practitioners such as managers and consultants.

Product details

• Authors: Miriam Green, Miriam (Icon College of Technology and Mana Green, Green Miriam
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.09.2020
• EAN: 9780367662639
• ISBN: 978-0-367-66263-9
• No. of pages: 182
• Series: Finance, Governance and Sustainability
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Business > Economics; BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Development / Sustainable Development, Business & Economics / General, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Corporate Governance, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Economics / General, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Finance / General, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Management, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Accounting / Managerial, EDUCATION / Organizations & Institutions, Economic theory & philosophy, Organizational theory & behaviour, Management of specific areas, Management accounting & bookkeeping, Organizational theory and behaviour, Economic theory and philosophy, Management accounting, bookkeeping and auditing