Writing Management: Organization Theory as a Literary Genre

Barbara Czarniawska is one of the most original of contemporary writers on organizations. Sceptical of scientific claims and explanations of the social world, she advocates an approach that draws on narrative, literary theory, cultural studies, and anthropology, rather than positivist social science, arguing that 'the social sciences are a system of institutionalized reflection, whereas business and public organizations represent institutionalized action'.

Business & Money

Czarniawska, Barbara

Economics

Oxford University Press

This provocative and engaging perspective on organizations and organization studies comes from one of the most original of contemporary writers in the field. Skeptical of scientific claims and explanations of the social world, Barbara Czarniawska advocates an approach that draws on narrative, literary theory, cultural studies, and anthropology, rather than positivist social science.

A Tale of Three Cities: Or the Glocalization of City Management

This book examines the effects of globalization at the local level within our everyday lives. Rather than seeing the city as a conurbation, a location of economic activity or in terms of governance and administration, Czarniawska explores the city as an action net. She uses studies of city management in Warsaw, Stockholm and Rome to develop this, looking in particular at the impact of global influences on city management, organization and culture.

International

Narrating the Organization: Dramas of Institutional Identity (New Practices of Inquiry)

The most common social phenomenon of Western societies is the organization, yet those involved in real-world managing are not always willing to reveal the intricacies of their everyday muddles. Barbara Czarniawska argues that in order to understand these uncharted territories, we need to gather local and concrete stories about organizational life and subject them to abstract and metaphorical interpretation. Using a narrative approach unique to organizational studies, Czarniawska employs literary devices to uncover the hidden workings of organizations. She applies cultural metaphors to public administration in Sweden to demonstrate, for example, how the dynamics of a screenplay can illuminate the budget disputes of an organization. She shows how the interpretive description of organizational worlds works as a distinct genre of social analysis, and her investigations ultimately disclose the paradoxical nature of organizational life: we follow routines in order to change, and decentralize in order to control. By confronting such paradoxes, we bring crisis to existing institutions and enable them to change.

Biography & History

University of Chicago Press

Narratives in Social Science Research (Introducing Qualitative Methods series)

Narratives in Social Science Research introduces students to the use of narrative methodology as a research tool. It offers a rigorous framework for the application of these devices within qualitative research. The book provides: 
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<li>An historical overview of the development of the narrative approach within the social sciences</li> <li>A guide to how narrative methods can be applied in fieldwork</li> <li>An explanation of how to incorporate a narrative approach within a research project</li> <li>Guidelines for interpreting collected or produced narratives</li> <li>A student-focused approach - key arguments and methods are illustrated by case-studies and lists of further reading.</li> </ul> Written in an accessible and engaging manner, this detailed text will be a useful resource for researchers and students taking courses in qualitative research across a variety of social disciplines.

Politics & Social Sciences

Social Sciences

Sage Publications Ltd.

Narratives in Social Science Research introduces students to the use of narrative methodology as a research tool. It offers a rigorous framework for the application of these devices within qualitative research. The book provides: <ul>
<li>An historical overview of the development of the narrative approach within the social sciences</li> <li>A guide to how narrative methods can be applied in fieldwork</li> <li>An explanation of how to incorporate a narrative approach within a research project</li> <li>Guidelines for interpreting collected or produced narratives</li> <li>A student-focused approach - key arguments and methods are illustrated by case-studies and lists of further reading.</li> </ul> Written in an accessible and engaging manner, this detailed text will be a useful resource for researchers and students taking courses in qualitative research across a variety of social disciplines.

Exploring Complex Organizations: A Cultural Perspective

The author of this volume explains how and why the mysteries of complex formal organizations are best unravelled using ethnographic techniques. Her book draws on the themes developed by leading thinkers in organization theory, cultural anthropology and sociology, and describes a personal quest for methods of organizational analysis that will be of interest to all students and scholars concerned with the potential of qualitative research in organizational settings.

Sage Publications, Inc.

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Writing Management: Organization Theory as a Literary Genre

Writing Management: Organization Theory as a Literary Genre

A Tale of Three Cities: Or the Glocalization of City Management

A Tale of Three Cities: Or the Glocalization of City Management

Narrating the Organization: Dramas of Institutional Identity (New Practices of Inquiry)

Narrating the Organization: Dramas of Institutional Identity (New Practices of Inquiry)

Narratives in Social Science Research (Introducing Qualitative Methods series)

Narratives in Social Science Research (Introducing Qualitative Methods series)

Exploring Complex Organizations: A Cultural Perspective

Exploring Complex Organizations: A Cultural Perspective