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Organizing & Organizations: An Introduction
Organizing & Organizations: An Introduction
paperback
Published:
20 April, 2000
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Description
This long awaited Second Edition of Organizing & Organizations builds on the success of the first edition, this ground-breaking text conveys the `lived experience' of being and working in organizations, while at the same time introducing students to key concepts, research and literature in organizational analysis. The Second Edition includes additional chapters which take account of new research in the field, an analysis of diversity, the environment, and the relation between production and consumption. Each chapter ends with a `Reading On' section and there is a fully updated thesaurus. Throughout the authors use the informal tone that makes the book so accessible to students.
More Details
| Type | Book |
|---|---|
| ISBN13 | 9780761962809 |
| ISBN10 | 0761962808 |
| Number Of Pages | 400 |
| Item Weight | 597 g |
| Product Dimensions | 156 x 23 x 234 mm |
| Publisher / Reseller | SAGE Publications Ltd |
| Format | paperback |
| Edition | Second |
Author's Bio
Yiannis Gabriel is Professor of Organizational Theory at Bath University. Yiannis has a degree in Mechanical Engineering from Imperial College London and a PhD in Sociology from the University of California, Berkeley. Yiannis is well known for his work into organizational storytelling and narratives, leadership, management learning and the culture and politics of contemporary consumption. He has used stories as a way of studying numerous social and organizational phenomena including leader-follower relations, group dynamics and fantasies, nostalgia, insults and apologies. He has also carried out extensive research on the psychoanalysis of organizations. Yiannis is founder and coordinator of the Organizational Storytelling Seminar series, now in its fourteenth year (See http://www.organizational-storytelling.org.uk/), the author of nine books and numerous articles. He is elected to the board of EGOS and is currently Senior Editor of Organization Studies. His enduring fascination as a researcher lies in what he describes as the unmanageable qualities of life in and out of organizations. Stephen Fineman is Professor of Organizational Behaviour, School of Management, University of Bath CONTRIBUTORS' AFFILIATIONS OUTSIDE NORTH AMERICA: Gillian Bendelow University of Warwick Karen P Harlos University of Otago, Dunedin Avraham N Kluger The Hebrew University of Jerusalem Berry Mayall University of London Anat Rafaeli Faculty of Industrial Engineering and Management, Technion, Haifa Varda Wasserman The Hebrew University of Jerusalem