Cover -- Contents -- Contributors -- Chapter 1 - Language/Organization: Introduction -- Part 1 - Language, Organization and Action -- Chapter 2 - Talking Sense: Ethnomethodology, Postmodernism and Practical Action -- Chapter 3 - Language That Organizes: Plans and Lists -- Chapter 4 - The...

Intro -- Introduction Barbara Czarniawska and Guje Sevón -- On "Scandinavian Institutionalism" -- Constructionism in Studies of Science and Technology -- The Contents of the Volume -- Travels of Ideas Barbara Czarniawska and Bernward Joerges -- Organizational Imitation in Identity...

This book is a collection of the best seventeen papers from the first Management Theory Conference held at the University of the Pacific in San Francisco, California, on September 27 and 28, 2013. The authors of these papers are some of the best management researchers in the world, including:...

What is the relationship between philosophy and organization theory (OT)? This title includes the papers that explore connections between several streams in philosophy and OT. It explores the question: What does a particular philosophy contribute to OT?.

This book is an accessibly-written critical introduction to the role of age in and beyond organizations, providing insights into the history of age, the social construction and politics of age, age stratification, and age discrimination.

Purpose - This essay argues that it is time to revisit and reintegrate the contributions oforganization theory to the understanding of educational organizations and leadership.Design/methodology/approach - The arguments presented in this essay are predicated on thefollowing assumptions: a...

This volume provides new conceptual insights to helporganizations improve health and wellbeing in society. Some chaptersdo this by addressing macro-level change, some by highlighting evidence-basedchange at the micro level, and others by extending theory and integratingperspectives that...

Cover -- Title Page -- Colophon -- Advances in Organization Studies -- Dedication -- Table of Contents -- Our Thanks -- Notes on the Contributors -- Foreword -- References -- Introduction -- Trends in Management Research -- Trends in Project Management Research -- The Sections of the Book --...

This major work from renowned scholars in the field, analyzes the role of language and symbolic media and shows how this enables us to move to new levels of understanding of contemporary organizational issues. An introductory chapter examines the role and growing importance of discourse in the...