Body and Organization

Issues around identity, agency and reflexivity are opened up and explored in a refreshing new perspective that deepens our understanding of organization and institutions. Body and Organization thorougly invigorates the study of process and brings the organization to three-dimensional life for a new generation of students and researchers.

List of contents

Introduction
The Body and Organization
PART ONE: FUNCTIONS AND FLOWS
What Shape Are We in? Organization Theory and the Organized Body - Karen Dale and Gibson Burrell
Dangerous Fluids and the Organization-without-Organs - Stephen Linstead
PART TWO: DISCOURSE AND REPRESENTATION
Sociology Sensing the Body - Catherine Casey
Revitalizing a Dissociative Discourse
Manufacturing Bodies - Martin Parker
Flesh, Organization, Cyborgs
Situating Complexity - Hugo Letiche
The Body (Nude)
PART THREE: PERFORMANCE AND REGULATION
¿The Look of Love¿ - Philip Hancock and Melissa Tyler
Gender and the Organization of Aesthetics
Embodying Management - Ian Lennie
The Body Topographies of Education Management - Craig Pritchard
Bodies in a Landscape - Johanna Hofbauer
On Office Design and Organization
PART FOUR: SELF AND IDENTITY
Exploring Embodiment - Joanna Brewis and John Sinclair
Women, Biology and Work
What Can a Body Do? - Janice Richardson
Sexual Harassment and Legal Procedure
Body Work - Deborah Kerfoot
Estrangement, Disembodiment and the Organizational ¿Other¿

Summary

Issues around identity, agency and reflexivity are opened up and explored in a refreshing new perspective that deepens our understanding of organization and institutions. Body and Organization thorougly invigorates the study of process and brings the organization to three-dimensional life for a new generation of students and researchers.

Product details

• Authors: John Holliday Hassard
• Assisted by: John Hassard (Editor), Ruth Holliday (Editor), Holliday Ruth (Editor), H. P. Willmott (Editor), Hugh Willmott (Editor), Willmott Hugh (Editor)
• Publisher: Sage Publications Ltd
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 14.04.2000
• EAN: 9780761959182
• ISBN: 978-0-7619-5918-2
• No. of pages: 272
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Psychology > Applied psychology; Social sciences, law, business > Business > Management; Social sciences, law, business > Business > Miscellaneous; BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Organizational Behavior, Organizational theory & behaviour, Organizational theory and behaviour, Organizational Theory;Social Theory