Text Work: Representing Organization and Organizing Representation (Studies in Management, Organizations and Society)

✍ Scribed by S. Linstead

• Year: 2003
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 303
• Edition: annotated edition
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

The concepts of social sciences, social action and organizations as texts, are no longer unfamiliar ones. The use of language in social analysis has made researchers acutely aware of the importance of language use, not only to contain and express experience but also to create second order accounts of these experiences. This way of using language to shape our knowledge and guide social action, it is urged, makes social action and organization a 'text'.Text/Work is an innovative exploration of our understanding of the textual nature of organizational life, and considers the consequences of textual nature for organization studies. How can organizations be profitably written into textual forms? This is a bold investigation into a challenging and exciting area of study.

✦ Table of Contents

Book Cover......Page 1
Title......Page 4
Contents......Page 5
List of contributors......Page 8
Acknowledgement......Page 10
Introduction: text, organization and identity......Page 12
Reading the research text......Page 24
Management she wrote: organization studies and detective stories......Page 26
Managing metaphorically......Page 52
Browsing the culture: membership and intertextuality at a Mormon bookstore......Page 68
Representation of organizational change in Ron Howard's Gung Ho: the role of speech acts and conversation......Page 99
Text(s) from place, space and non-place: discourses of Poland......Page 120
Organizing multiple spacetimes in a colonial context: indigeneity and white Australian nationalism at the Melbourne Museum......Page 149
Sampling genres......Page 172
Protext: the morphoses of identity, heterogeneity and synolon......Page 174
Organizing the past: a history and its (de)construction......Page 191
Eleven characters in search of an ethic: or the spirit of capitalism revisited......Page 215
Dramaturgy, dialogue and organizing: scripting a (theatrical) play on words......Page 230
A ~sampled~ account of : being a de-authored, reflexive parody of /writing......Page 241
Circling the square: stories of an unsettled self......Page 278
Index......Page 290