Organization and Identity

Alison Linstead

ISBN 10: 0415322316 / ISBN 13: 9780415322317

Published by Routledge, 2005

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nach der Bestellung gedruckt Neuware - Printed after ordering - Exploring identity as a contemporary concern in everyday life and in the social sciences, this book focuses on how ideas about identity can be applied to organization and management studies.The contributors, all respected authorities in the field, use and develop recent philosophical thought on the nature of identity, and question the key social divisions of gender, class and nation. Bringing approaches from contemporary philosophy into the area of organization theory, this book critically assesses their relevance and impact in a way which interrupts identity as a notion.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Organization and Identity
• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication Date: 2005
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0415322316
• ISBN 13: 9780415322317
• Binding: Buch
• Condition: Neu
• Dimensions: 240W x 161H x 23D millimeters 240 millimeters width by 161 millimeters height by 23 millimeters depth
• Weight: 669 grams

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Synopsis

Exploring identity as a contemporary concern in everyday life and in the social sciences, this book focuses on how ideas about identity can be applied to organization and management studies.

The contributors, all respected authorities in the field, use and develop recent philosophical thought on the nature of identity, and question the key social divisions of gender, class and nation. Bringing approaches from contemporary philosophy into the area of organization theory, this book critically assesses their relevance and impact in a way which interrupts identity as a notion.

About the Author

Alison Linstead is Senior Lecturer in Critical Management and Director of the PhD programme in the Department of Management Studies at the University of York. She is the co-author of Thinking Organization (also with Stephen Linstead, Routledge 2005) and has published in several journals on issues including organizational change and poststructuralist feminism.

Stephen Linstead is Professor of Organizational Analysis and Director of Research at Durham Business School. He has published widely on organizational aesthetics, language, philosophy, qualitative methodology, gender and sexuality and is the author of Text/Work (Routledge 2003). He is an Academician at the Academy of the Social Sciences and co-edits the journal Culture and Organization.