Power in the eyes of the innocent (Students talk on power in organizations)
Power as an explanatory notion attracts the attention of many researchers, but the results produced are ambiguous, mainly because of differences in the operational definitions of power. The study reported below explores the uses of power as an experiential concept -- a construct used by organizational members to interpret their experience. Students of business administration and related disciplines in Sweden, Poland and Germany were asked to illustrate the notion of organizational power. The re-interpretation of their stories reveals how norms and expectations are related to organizational practices in the process of making sense of organizational experience.
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1991
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Authors: | Czarniawska-Joerges, Barbara ; Kranas, Grazyna |
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Scandinavian Journal of Management. - Elsevier, ISSN 0956-5221. - Vol. 7.1991, 1, p. 41-60
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Publisher: |
Elsevier |
Keywords: | Accounts cultural context of organizing hermeneutic spiral hermeneutical triad power rationality rhetoric solidarity |
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