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Narrating the Organization

Dramas of Institutional Identity

By: Barbara Czarniawska-Joerges

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Narrating the Organization

Dramas of Institutional Identity

By: Barbara Czarniawska-Joerges

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.

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University of Chicago Press

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0226132285

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9780226132280

Shadowing

And Other Techniques for Doing Fieldwork in Modern Societies

By: Barbara Czarniawska-Joerges

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Shadowing

And Other Techniques for Doing Fieldwork in Modern Societies

By: Barbara Czarniawska-Joerges

Shadowing offers an array of techniques to study people on the move, and the book is addressed to all social scientists interested in fieldwork as a way of grasping phenomena typical of late modernity. The book's starting point is that present times require different metaphors than static "cultures," "organizations," or even "societies." It is time to start constructing a mobile ethnology that is knowledge about people, objects, and ideas that circulate globally. The present text offers suggestions concerning the ways such construction may take.

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Copenhagen Business School Press DK

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8763002159

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9788763002158

Writing Management

Organization Theory as a Literary Genre

By: Barbara Czarniawska-Joerges

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Writing Management

Organization Theory as a Literary Genre

By: Barbara Czarniawska-Joerges

The author explores a number of related issues and reflects on the growth and claims of management studies. She writes about the relationship between facts and metaphors, stories, and data and how these may be represented in genres.

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148

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OUP Oxford

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0198296142

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9780198296140

A Narrative Approach to Organization Studies

By: Barbara Czarniawska-Joerges

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A Narrative Approach to Organization Studies

By: Barbara Czarniawska-Joerges

Annotation With a focus on organization studies, this volume takes readers through the narrative approach to qualitative research, from setting up the fieldwork to writing up the research.

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SAGE

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0761906630

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9780761906636

Narratives in Social Science Research

By: Barbara Czarniawska-Joerges

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Narratives in Social Science Research

By: Barbara Czarniawska-Joerges

Provides: an historical overview of the development of the narrative approach; a guide to how narrative methods can be applied in fieldwork; how to incorporate a narrative approach within a field project; guidelines for interpreting collected or produced narratives; and useful guides for further reading.

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172

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SAGE

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0761941959

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9780761941958

Management Education and Humanities

By: Barbara Czarniawska-Joerges

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Management Education and Humanities

By: Barbara Czarniawska-Joerges

Academics and managers who strive for a humanistic management education usually care for people, but they are challenged by sophisticated intellectual subjects and practical problems. The authors' experience, competence and commitment enables them to present an extensive coverage of important views and an in-depth study of these issues. Eduard Bonet, ESADE, Spain This volume is a timely initiative. It resonates with important questions on globalization and its consequences, on the unrelenting quest for efficiency and productivity, on recent corporate scandals and on the responsibilities of managers and management education. This book is a manifesto for an intellectual revolution. In a complex and open world, managers often bump into the limits of the decontextualized tools associated with mainstream management knowledge and practice. Managers have to navigate in a world that is not only economic but also political, cultural, shaped by history and ethical traditions and preoccupations not only as a mark of social capital but really as a way to enhance their managerial skills and efficiency. The role of management education should be to prepare them for that odyssey and this volume tells us that humanities could be a powerful tool in that sense. This project is served by a highly legitimate international panel of contributors who collectively point towards an alternative for management thinking and management education. Marie-Laure Djelic, ESSEC Business School, France Management Education and Humanities argues that management teachers and researchers seem to be increasingly dissatisfied with the way managers are usually educated in western countries. It claims that educational practices and methods would greatly benefit from reflection on the implicit assumptions and paradigms behind those practices, and debates the role that humanism and humanities might play in the formation of new managerial élites. The book examines three themes that have emerged as central to the contemporary debate on management education: the profession of management; humanism as a philosophy and worldview; and the humanities as an academic field where management schools could find new inspirations for curricula. All three themes are scrutinized in a frame of reference extended between two different points of view: the traditional view, with its tendency to idealize (and even sometimes romanticize) humanism, the humanities and management as a social function; and the past-modern view, which is inclined to skepticism and to the deconstruction of social and cultural phenomena. Providing a lively account of this ongoing debate and exploring new trends and experiences in management education, this book will be invaluable reading for teachers, students and researchers of management, management strategy, and organizational behaviour.

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Edward Elgar Publishing

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1845429923

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9781845429928

Cyberfactories

How News Agencies Produce News

By: Barbara Czarniawska-Joerges

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Cyberfactories

How News Agencies Produce News

By: Barbara Czarniawska-Joerges

ÔOnly the polyglott Barbara Czarniawska, a keen ethnographer of organizations, could give us a picture of the production of news in the age of digital reproduction. By a close description of the process through which news agencies elaborate this exquisitely complex product Ð the piece of news Ð she manages to give us a realistic interpretation of what technology and globalization do to journalism. Far from indicating the end of the trade and the dissolution of its credibility, her careful and witty account shows the many ways in which authority of information may be regained. Walter Lippmann would have loved this book.Õ Ð Bruno Latour, Sciences Po Paris, France ÔTT, Ansa, Reuters are not intermediaries that transfer information to their clients, rather they are producers of the news. . . or better, in this book, they are fac(s)tories. This passionate journey into the management of overflow of news input and output starts with the question: when a flow is an overflow? How do people daily survive such overflow? Read the book and discover how the answer is simpler than expected!Õ Ð Silvia Gherardi, University of Trento, Italy Have you ever wondered how organizations decide which news is important? This insightful book portrays in detail everyday work in three news agencies: Swedish TT, Italian ANSA and the worldwide Reuters. This unique study is about organizing rather than journalism, revealing two accelerating phenomena: cybernization (machines play a more and more central role in news production) and cyborgization (people rely more and more on machines). Barbara Czarniawska reveals that technological developments lead to many unexpected consequences and complications. Cyberfactories will prove essential to researchers interested in contemporary forms of organizing, studies of technology, and media. It will also appeal to a lay reader interested in how news is produced.

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241

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Edward Elgar Publishing

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0857939130

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9780857939135

A City Reframed

Managing Warsaw in the 1990s

By: Barbara Czarniawska-Joerges

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A City Reframed

Managing Warsaw in the 1990s

By: Barbara Czarniawska-Joerges

The specificity of the Warsaw picture is its demand for "reframing" and numerous and varied attempts have been made to achieve a "change of frame". This text reports on the study exploring organising processes in their local context.

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Psychology Press

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9058230651

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9789058230652

A Tale of Three Cities

Or the Glocalization of City Management

By: Barbara Czarniawska-Joerges

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A Tale of Three Cities

Or the Glocalization of City Management

By: Barbara Czarniawska-Joerges

Cities are complex, sprawling, diverse places. They are organized, but disorganized; managed, but unmanaged; orderly, but disorderly. Modern metropolitan cities reproduce themselves and we are familiar with the common icons that are replicated in every part of the globe, but how should we understand cities? For the past five years, Professor Czarniawska has been leading a research project on globalization and the management of cities. Rather than seeing the city as a conurbation, or a location of economic activity, or in terms of governance and administration, Czarniawska explores the city as an action net. An action net of this sort includes various organizations-municipal, state, private, and voluntary-and non-organized individuals. Such an approach was designed to avoid the fallacy of viewing the big city as one big organization. The city is thus conceived as a particularly complex and disorderly action net; a seamless web of interorganizational networks, where the city administration proper constitutes just one point of entry and by no means provides a map of the entire terrain. The research focuses on three European capitals: Warsaw, Stockholm, and Rome. At the outset, leading politicians and officials in each city listed the major problems and projects that the city was engaged in, for example environmental reforms, improvement of public utilities, privatization, financial targets, etc. The author selected a number of these for more detailed study, reporting upon interesting similarities and differences between the approaches taken. The book aims to explore organizing processes in their local context while following the connections between such contexts.

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180

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Oxford University Press, USA

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0199252718

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9780199252718

A Theory of Organizing

Second edition

By: Barbara Czarniawska

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A Theory of Organizing

Second edition

By: Barbara Czarniawska

øProvocative in its questioning of established truths in the field of organizational studies, this book will continue to challenge and stimulate organizational theoreticians and organizational practitioners. It will also prove lively reading for academ

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Edward Elgar Publishing

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1783478683

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Book's by Barbara Czarniawska-Joerges

Narrating the Organization

Narrating the Organization

Shadowing

Shadowing

Writing Management

Writing Management

A Narrative Approach to Organization Studies

A Narrative Approach to Organization Studies

Narratives in Social Science Research

Narratives in Social Science Research

Management Education and Humanities

Management Education and Humanities

Cyberfactories

Cyberfactories

A City Reframed

A City Reframed

A Tale of Three Cities

A Tale of Three Cities

A Theory of Organizing

A Theory of Organizing

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