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Title Management and organization paradoxes / edited by Stewart R. Clegg
Published Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Pub., [2002]
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Description vi, 330 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Series Advances in organization studies ; 9
Advances in organization studies ; 9
Contents 1. General introduction / Stewart R. Clegg -- Pt. I. Representing Paradoxes. 2. Management, paradox, and permanent dialectics / Joao Vieira da Cunha, Stewart R. Clegg and Miguel Pina e Cunha. 3. The meanings of risk and interorganizational collaboration / Paul K. Couchman and Liz Fulop. 4. Workers' playtime?: Unravelling the paradox of covert resistance in organizations / Peter Fleming and Andre Spicer. 5. Paradox in symbols and subjects: The politics of constructing "The Wharfie" / Andre Spicer, John W. Selsky and Julian Teicher. 6. Politics and popular culture: Organizational carnival in the Springfield nuclear power plant / Carl Rhodes. 7. From value conflicts to multiple mandates: On organising ethical knowledge and its paradoxes / Fernando Leal and Patricia Shipley -- Pt. II. Materialising Paradoxes. 8. Organizational paradoxes and business ethics: In search of new modes of existence / Eduardo Ibarra-Colado. 9. Beyond the 'war for talent' hype: Occupational and organizational change in the business professions / Timothy Morris and Ashly Pinnington. 10. Expectations, emotions and money: Finance organizations and futures / Jocelyn Pixley. 11. Psychoanalysis and auditing / David Crowther. 12. A paradox of governance: Convergent policy and divergent practice in corporate governance in Asia / Thomas Clarke. 13. Multinationals, corporate governance and financial internationalisation / Glenn Morgan. 14. Managing the interconnected organization: An internal tension perspective / Antoine Hermens
Summary This text on management and organization paradoxes includes contemporary work in comparative management and intercultural comparison and studies of organizational culture, communication and aesthetics. Purely theoretical as well as empirically based studies are included
Analysis Organisational theory & behaviour Structure of enterprises
Notes Rev. papers from the APROS 2000 conference in Sydney
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Subject Management -- Philosophy.
Organization -- Philosophy.
Paradoxes.
Management -- Philosophy -- Congresses.
Organization -- Philosophy -- Congresses.
Paradoxes -- Congresses.
Genre/Form Kongress
Author Clegg, Stewart.
Australian and Pacific Researchers in Organisation Studies
LC no. 2002021463
ISBN 1588112578
158811208X paperback
9027233071
Other Titles Management & organization paradoxes