The social construction of organization

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The social construction of organization

edited by Dian Marie Hosking and Sheila McNamee (eds)

(Advances in organization studies / series editors, Stewart R. Clegg & Ralph Stablein, v. 16)

Liber , Copenhagen Business School Press, c2006

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Description

The book is about persons and organisations, and the multidisciplinary field where 'social construction' means many different things.

Table of Contents

1. Making Your Way 2. Organizational Science and the Promises of Postmodernism 3. Organizations, Organizing, and Related Concepts of Change 4. Patterns of Engagement 5. Auditive Leadership Culture: Lessons from Symphony Orchestras 6. Abilities, Competencies and Selection Decision-making 7. The Group-in-the-Making: From "Group Dynamics" to "Relational Practices" 8. Voicing Differences and Becoming Other: Life-stories of Immigrants in an Organizational Context 9. The Social Side of Innovation: A Process Perspective 10. Learning Organizations: The Emergence of a Relational-interpretive View of Organization 11. Appreciative Evaluation in an Educational Context: Inviting Conversations of Assessment and Development 12. Wittgenstein, Bakhtin, Management and the Dialogical 13. Consulting: New Language, New Possibilities? 14. Lev Vygotsky and the New Performative Psychology: Some Implications for Business and Organizations 15. Living in Organizations: Lessons from Jazz Improvisation 16. Disturbing Patterns of Engagement

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