| Description |
vi, 330 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm |
| Series |
Advances in organization studies ; 9 |
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Advances in organization studies ; 9
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| 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.
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Organization -- Philosophy.
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Paradoxes.
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Management -- Philosophy -- Congresses.
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Organization -- Philosophy -- Congresses.
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Paradoxes -- Congresses.
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| Genre/Form |
Kongress
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| Author |
Clegg, Stewart.
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Australian and Pacific Researchers in Organisation Studies
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| LC no. |
2002021463 |
| ISBN |
1588112578 |
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158811208X paperback |
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9027233071 |
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