Writing Organization: (Re)presentation and control in narratives at work: 7 (Advances in Organization Studies) - Softcover

Rhodes, Carl

Softcover

ISBN 10: 9027233047 ISBN 13: 9789027233042

Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing Co, 2001

Synopsis

Carl Rhodes examines the implicit power of writing and authorship that is at play when people and organisations are (re)presented in research. To explore this, the book reports a research project in the area of organisational storytelling that investigates how people in one organisation used stories to (re)present their own learning experiences from the implementation of a quality management program. This research is written in three principal genres: autobiography, ethnography and a fictional short story. These (re)presentational strategies are reviewed to examine how different genres effect authority in different ways. Drawing extensively on the work of Mikhail Bakhtin and on writers associated with postmodernism and poststructuralism, the book offers a challenging discussion of what organisational research might be when the notion of the equivalence of reality and representation is radically questioned.

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Synopsis

The "Advances in Organization Studies" series includes cutting-edge work in comparative management and intercultural comparison, studies of organizational culture, communication, and aesthetics, as well as in the area of interorganizational collaboration - strategic alliances, joint ventures, networks and collaborations of all kinds, where comparative, intercultural, and communicative issues have an especial salience. Purely theoretical as well as empirically based studies are included. This volume examines the subject of writing organization, focusing on presentation and control in narratives at work. Topics covered include: language, genre and knowledge; theorizing the heteroglossic organization; appropriating research texts; mixing generic (re)presentations; and (re)presenting in genres.

Edition details

• Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing Co
• Publication date: 2001
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 9027233047
• ISBN 13: 9789027233042
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 150