Text/Work: Representing Organization and Organizing Representation (Routledge Studies in Management, Organizations and Society) - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0415304733 ISBN 13: 9780415304733

Publisher: Routledge, 2002

Synopsis

The concepts of social sciences, social action and organizations as texts, are no longer unfamiliar ones. The use of language in social analysis has made researchers acutely aware of the importance of language use, not only to contain and express experience but also to create second order accounts of these experiences. This way of using language to shape our knowledge and guide social action, it is urged, makes social action and organization a 'text'.
Text/Work is an innovative exploration of our understanding of the textual nature of organizational life, and considers the consequences of textual nature for organization studies. How can organizations be profitably written into textual forms? This is a bold investigation into a challenging and exciting area of study.

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About the Author

Stephen Linstead is Professor of Organizational Analysis at the University of Durham.

Edition details

• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication date: 2002
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0415304733
• ISBN 13: 9780415304733
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 302
• Editor: Linstead Stephen