| Description |
vii, 233 pages ; 24 cm |
| Series |
New practices of inquiry |
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New practices of inquiry.
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| Contents |
Introduction, or Complex Phenomena Need Complex Metaphors -- 1. The Narrative in Culture Studies -- 2. On Dramas and Autobiographies in the Organizational Context -- 3. Interpretive Studies of Organizations: The Logic of Inquiry -- 4. Enacting Routines for Change -- 5. Serials: Innovation and Repetition -- 6. Talking Numbers: Preferences and Traditions -- 7. A Quest for Identity -- 8. Paradoxical Material -- 9. Changing Devices -- 10. Constructing Narratives |
| Summary |
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 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 213-226) and index |
| Subject |
Business anthropology.
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Organizational behavior -- Sweden -- Case studies.
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Organizational behavior.
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Public administration.
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| LC no. |
96020954 |
| ISBN |
0226132285 |
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0226132293 |
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