The Conversational Firm - Rethinking Bureaucracy in the Age of Social Media (Hardcover)

A fast-growing social media marketing company, TechCo encourages all of its employees to speak up. By promoting open dialogue across the corporate hierarchy, the firm has fostered a uniquely engaged workforce and an enviable capacity for change. Yet the path hasn't always been easy. TechCo has confronted a number of challenges, and its experience reveals the essential elements of bureaucracy that remain even when a firm sets out to discard them. Through it all, TechCo serves as a powerful new model for how firms can navigate today's rapidly changing technological and cultural climate. Catherine J. Turco was embedded within TechCo for ten months. The Conversational Firm is her ethnographic analysis of what worked at the company and what didn't. She offers multiple lessons for anyone curious about the effect of social media on the corporate environment and adds depth to debates over the new generation of employees reared on social media: Millennials who carry their technological habits and expectations into the workplace. Marshaling insights from cultural and economic sociology, organizational theory, economics, technology studies, and anthropology, The Conversational Firm offers a nuanced analysis of corporate communication, control, and culture in the social media age.

General

Imprint:	Columbia University Press
Country of origin:	United States
Series:	The Middle Range Series
Release date:	September 2016
Authors:	Catherine J. Turco (Theodore T. Miller Career Development Professor)
Dimensions:	229 x 152 x 22mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover - Trade binding
Pages:	272
ISBN-13:	978-0-231-17898-3
Categories:	Books > Humanities > History > History of specific subjects > History of specific institutions Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Social institutions > General Books > Business & Economics > Business & management > Management & management techniques > Organizational theory & behaviour Books > Business & Economics > Industry & industrial studies > Media, information & communication industries > Information technology industries Books > History > History of specific subjects > History of specific institutions
LSN:	0-231-17898-0
Barcode:	9780231178983

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