Narrating the Organization - Dramas of Institutional Identity

Klappentext Using a narrative approach unique to organizational studies, Czarniawska employs literary devices to uncover the hidden workings of organizations. She shows how the interpretive description of organizational worlds works as a distinct genre of social analysis, and her investigations ultimately disclose the paradoxical nature of organizational life: we follow routine in order to change, and decentralize in order to control. By confronting such paradoxes, we bring crisis to existing institutions and enable them to change. Zusammenfassung Studying the intricacy of the organization! this work argues that it is necessary to gather local information about organizational life and subject it to abstract and metaphorical interpretation. Using a narrative approach! the book employs literary devices to reveal the workings of organizations.

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• Authors: Barbara Czarniawska, Czarniawska, Barbara Czarniawska, CZARNIAWSKA JOERGES BARBARA, Barbara Czarniawska-Joerges
• Publisher: University Of Chicago Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 15.04.1997
• EAN: 9780226132297
• ISBN: 978-0-226-13229-7
• No. of pages: 242
• Series: New Practices of Inquiry S.; New Practices of Inquiry S.; New Practices of Inquiry Series NPI (CHUP); New Practices of Inquiry Series NPI; New Practices of Inquiry
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Psychology > Applied psychology; Social sciences, law, business > Business > Management