A theory of organizing /

A theory of organizing /

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Bibliographic Details
Author / Creator:	Czarniawska-Joerges, Barbara.
Uniform title:	Teori om organisering. English
Imprint:	Cheltenham, UK ; Northampton, MA : Edward Elgar, 2008.
Description:	v, 153 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Language:	English
Subject:	Organizational sociology. Organizational sociology.
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/7261416

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ISBN:	1847205844 (hbk.) 9781847205841 (hbk.) 9781848444300 (pbk.) 1848444303 (pbk.)
Notes:	"This translation of the title is published by arrangement with Studentlitteratur"--T.p. verso. Includes bibliographical references (p. 139-150) and index. Translated from the Swedish.
Summary:	"Barbara Czarniawska, renowned organization theorist, offers in A Theory of Organizing a processual view of organizing, and develops a theory based on multiple field studies and recent theoretical insights. The author demonstrates that the global economy and its ally, information technology, have paved the way for organizing across corporate and national borders. Mergers and acquisitions are now mundane events, and markets have become more virtual than ever, even as ideas that travel across the world, and are translated into local practices." "This book will challenge and stimulate organizational theoreticians and organizational practitioners. It will also prove lively reading for academics from a range of backgrounds, including sociology, business administration, and the political sciences."--Jacket.
Other form:	Online version: Czarniawska-Joerges, Barbara. Teori om organisering. English. Theory of organizing. Cheltenham, UK ; Northampton, MA : Edward Elgar, 2008

Table of Contents:

1. Perspective : a constructivist view of organizing
2. Starting point : the construction and reconstruction of action nets
3. On organizing : narrating the organizing and organizing the narratives
4. On stability : how institutions become inscribed in technical objects
5. On management : leadership as service
6. On change : is it possible to life oneself by the hair?
7. On imitation and fashion : how ideas travel around the world
8. On gender : is discrimination equal?
9. Research results : why do they seldom reach the students?
10. Epilogue : ten paradoxical memoranda for organization theorists.