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Throughout its history, popular mass-mediated culture has turned
its attention to representing and interrogating organizational
life. As early as Charlie Chaplin's cinematic classic Modern Times
and as recently as the primetime television hit The Simpsons, we
see cultural products that engage reflexively in coming to terms
with the meaning of work, technology and workplace relations. It is
only since the late 1990s, however, that those who research
management and organizations have come to collectively dwell on the
relationship between organizations and popular culture - a
relationship where the cultural meanings of work are articulated in
popular culture, and where popular culture challenges taken for
granted knowledge about the structure and practice work. Key to
this development has been the journal Culture and Organization - a
journal that has been centre stage in creating new vistas through
which the 'cultural studies of organization' can be explored. This
book brings together the journal's best contributions which
specifically address how popular culture represents, informs and
potentially transforms organizational practice. Featuring
contributors from the UK, USA, Europe and Australia, this exciting
anthology provides a comprehensive review of research in
organization and popular culture.
The first Brush Type 4 No D1500 was delivered to British Railways
in September 1962, working its first passenger trains on 8 October.
This new book from Simon Lilley is a pictorial history of their
first 20 years in service with a mix of black and white and colour
photographs used to illustrate the history of the Class 47s from
their very early days to the early 1980s. All the key developments
of the class over these years are captured and explained, including
livery changes as green gave way to corporate blue and locomotives
were fitted with train air-brakes and electric train heating
equipment. There were many variations within the Class 47 fleet,
both big and small, and this book highlights those differences. The
wide mix of locations gives a geographical spread across country,
and include some locations not normally associated with the
locomotives, reflecting their work over the years across the rail
network on a wide variety passenger, parcels and freight duties.
Throughout its history, popular mass-mediated culture has turned
its attention to representing and interrogating organizational
life. As early as Charlie Chaplin's cinematic classic Modern Times
and as recently as the primetime television hit The Simpsons, we
see cultural products that engage reflexively in coming to terms
with the meaning of work, technology and workplace relations. It is
only since the late 1990s, however, that those who research
management and organizations have come to collectively dwell on the
relationship between organizations and popular culture - a
relationship where the cultural meanings of work are articulated in
popular culture, and where popular culture challenges taken for
granted knowledge about the structure and practice work. Key to
this development has been the journal Culture and Organization - a
journal that has been centre stage in creating new vistas through
which the 'cultural studies of organization' can be explored. This
book brings together the journal's best contributions which
specifically address how popular culture represents, informs and
potentially transforms organizational practice. Featuring
contributors from the UK, USA, Europe and Australia, this exciting
anthology provides a comprehensive review of research in
organization and popular culture.
Speed of production, of information flow, of capital moving through
deregulated financial and trading systems is apparently ubiquitous,
as indeed is its seemingly inexorable increase in the consequently
ever shorter here and now that we inhabit. But with so much going
on, and going on so quickly, how can it all or can any of it be
attended to? This volume assembles a range of thoughtful
contributors who have bent their minds to deploy a range of
different perspectives to consider the current fascination with
speed and its implications for organizing and organizations.
Through writings ordered into three key themes The Speed of
Organizational Identity, The Speed of Organizational Technology,
and The Speed of Organizational Imagery the contributors invite the
reader to take gulps of theoretical and reflective air, to hold in
abeyance for a moment the breathless talk of a faster tomorrow, to
pause to look at the hurdy gurdy. Fast food, dotcoms, hotdesking,
and international travelers fly across the page, skillfully
illuminated by insights drawn from theorists past and present. The
speed of organization will certainly be more vivid after having
read this book.
An accessible theoretical analysis of the organizational impact of information technologies. This book examines the many ways in which actors, organizations and technologies are represented through these technologies thus bridging the gap between the abstractions of current theories of organization and the somewhat excessively grounded material on information systems.
An accessible theoretical analysis of the organizational impact of information technologies. This book examines the many ways in which actors, organizations and technologies are represented through these technologies thus bridging the gap between the abstractions of current theories of organization and the somewhat excessively grounded material on information systems.
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