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Organization and organizing : materiality, agency, and discourse /
This timely collection addresses central issues in organizational communication theory on the nature of organizing and organization. The unique strength of this volume is its contribution to the conception of materiality, agency, and discourse in current theorizing and research on the constitution o...
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Hoboken :
Taylor and Francis,
2013.
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| Online Access: | Texto completo |
Table of Contents:
- Cover; Organization and Organizing: Materiality, Agency, and Discourse; Copyright; Contents; List of Figures and Tables; Introduction: The Need for New Materials in the Constitution of Organization; About the Authors; Part I Theoretical Developments; 1 Organizations as Obstacles to Organizing; 2 Dialectics, Contradictions, and the Question of Agency; 3 "What's the Story?": Organizing as a Mode of Existence; 4 Organization as Chaosmos; 5 Organizations as Entitative Beings: Some Ontological Implications of Communicative Constitution; 6 What Is an Organization? Or: Is James Taylor a Buddhist?
- 7 Activity Coordination and the Montreal SchoolPart II Empirical Explorations; 8 Spacing Organization: Or How to Be Here and There at the Same Time; 9 Restructuring Identity through Sectorial Narratives; 10 Organization by Debate: Exploring the Connections between Rhetorical Argument and Organizing; 11 Constituting the Temporary Organization: Documents in the Context of Projects; 12 Organizational Communication at the Crossroads; Bibliography; Index.