Das Buch zeigt, wie Arbeitsprozesse von Künstlern ablaufen, wie Künstler Ideen entwickeln und Krisen überwinden. Es präsentiert ein Set von Einstellungen, die für Berufskünstler typisch und für Führungskräfte hilfreich sind. Führungskräfte erleben in ihrem unternehmerischen und...

This title examines how contemporary currents in sociology and social theory have influenced the field of organisation studies. It aims to combat the tendency towards myopia in the organisation studies field, which encourages reliance on resources and references drawn from within the field and...

The central question explored in this work is the epistemological status of organization theory as a policy science. By drawing attention to organization theory as a practical social activity, the handbook reviews and evaluates important epistemological developments in the discipline.

We live in a society of organisations, organisations which have profound and pervasive effects on our lives at work and beyond. Contemporary society and its organisations are in a period of accelerated, profound change. In this book, leading sociology and organsational scholars consider how...

Interdisciplinary Dialogues on Organizational Paradox is an innovative two-part volume that enriches our understanding about paradox; both deepening the theory and offering greater insight to address the grand challenges we face in the world today. Authors demonstrate how paradox theory benefits...

Interdisciplinary Dialogues on Organizational Paradox is a two-part volume exploring how paradox theory benefits from interdisciplinary theorizing and how we might go about undertaking such research. The chapters draw from four disciplinary realms: beliefs, physicality, expression, and social...

The SAGE Handbook of Organizational Institutionalism brings together extensive coverage of aspects of Institutional Theory and an array of top academic contributors. Now in its Second Edition, the book has been thoroughly revised and reorganised, with all chapters updated to maintain a mix of...

This text enlivens the study of the organization by shifting the emphasis to examine how social practices are embodied. The contributors offer an alternative framework for understanding the interplay between individuals, institutions and work

This text covers the areas of talk and action, stories and sensemaking, and discourse and social theory. It also evaluates organizational discourse as a means of enriching our understanding of organization

In this analysis of earlier positivist research evidence, Donaldson discovers an underlying order in organisational phenomena in which factors such as organisational size and incremental adaptation still have high explanatory power