Action at a distance : studies in the practicalities of executive management
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Action at a distance : studies in the practicalities of executive management
(Philosophy and method in the social sciences)
Routledge, 2018
- : hbk
- : pbk
Available at 2 libraries
  Aomori
  Iwate
  Miyagi
  Akita
  Yamagata
  Fukushima
  Ibaraki
  Tochigi
  Gunma
  Saitama
  Chiba
  Tokyo
  Kanagawa
  Niigata
  Toyama
  Ishikawa
  Fukui
  Yamanashi
  Nagano
  Gifu
  Shizuoka
  Aichi
  Mie
  Shiga
  Kyoto
  Osaka
  Hyogo
  Nara
  Wakayama
  Tottori
  Shimane
  Okayama
  Hiroshima
  Yamaguchi
  Tokushima
  Kagawa
  Ehime
  Kochi
  Fukuoka
  Saga
  Nagasaki
  Kumamoto
  Oita
  Miyazaki
  Kagoshima
  Okinawa
  Korea
  China
  Thailand
  United Kingdom
  Germany
  Switzerland
  France
  Belgium
  Netherlands
  Sweden
  Norway
  United States of America
Note
Includes bibliographical references and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
This book examines the nature of work and management, centring on documents as a class of management objects which have been relatively understudied in ethnomethodological research. Treating documents and similar artefacts as ordering devices, the authors describe consociation - the social organisation of patterns of coordinated action in situations where the usual resources of face to face communication are absent. With a focus on senior managers, this volume provides a description of the interior configuration of the world of senior management as the encountered, everyday experience of managing, drawing on first person experience rather than ethnographic fieldwork to shed new light on the importance of third person reflection upon practical understandings. An innovative study of the social character of such management objects as spreadsheets, strategic plans, computational models and charts, Action at a Distance will appeal to scholars of sociology with interests in ethnomethodology, the sociology of work and method in the social sciences.
Table of Contents
- List of figures
- List of tables
- List of Appendices
- Preface
- Part I: Foundations
- 1. The world of the senior manager
- 2. Management as a common sense construct
- Part II: Studies in the practicalities of executive management
- 3. Representations and realities
- 4. Representations without metaphysics
- 5. Intersubjectivity and the arts of financial management
- 6. The contingencies of due process
- Appendix
- 7. Sensitivity analysis as practical modal realism
- Appendix
- 8. Benchmarking as reality conjuncture
- Appendix
- 9. Does it wash its face?
- Appendix
- 10. Plans and their situated actions
- Part III: Conclusion
- 11. Ethnomethodology: a First Sociology?
- Index
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