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The Meeting - Gatherings in Organizations and Communities (Paperback, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1989)
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The Meeting - Gatherings in Organizations and Communities (Paperback, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1989)
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In writing this book I discovered that everyone I talked to had his
or her own theory about meetings, and yet there is no theory of
meetings in the research literature. This makes writing about this
subject both excit ing and hazardous. It is always exciting to
examine the significance of something that has been ignored, but it
is hazardous to write about something that everyone already thinks
they understand. Without re course to the legitimacy of a research
tradition, readers are likely to evaluate this study based on their
own theory. I have tried to take this into account by discussing
what might be referred to as American folk theory about meetings
(see particularly Chapter 3), and also by juxtapos ing my own
research in an American organization with research in traditional
or non-Western societies as conducted by anthropologists. This
juxtaposition throws into relief some of the important differences
as well as similarities in views of meetings as well as the form of
meetings across cultures. It is also the only way that I know to
examine how and when one's cultural context is affecting one's
theoretical constructions. If this book is successful, it will
challenge what I believe is the most common interpretation of
meetings found in American society, that is, that meetings are a
blank-slate phenomenon useful as a tool for such functions as
making decisions, solving problems, and resolving con flicts, but
having no impact on behavior in and of themselves."
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