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While the careers of secret agents have inspired many genres of
popular culture, relatively little research has been carried out
until now on spying as a profession. Through the lens of personnel
management, the authors offer a unique and compelling analysis of
secret service employee biographies and autobiographies, giving the
reader an improved understanding of people management in all
organisations. Personnel Management in Secret Service Organizations
pinpoints key events in an agent’s career, focusing on how they
enter their profession, how they perform espionage work; how they
are trained and managed and what the circumstances of promotion and
demotion might be, up to the point of exit from the profession
(through retirement, capture, or death). Within this framework, it
illustrates the ways that secret service organizations play a
crucial role in contemporary societies. Drawing comparisons with
personnel management in standard organizations, Personnel
Management in Secret Service Organizations will be a valuable
resource for researchers and students of management and
organization. The use of narratology-inspired methods will appeal
to younger scholars with an interest in organizational studies too.
In this timely book, Barbara Czarniawska and Bernward Joerges
examine the hopes and fears around work and job security inspired
by automation, from the original coining of the term 'robot' to the
present day media fascination. Have these hopes and fears changed
or do they remain the same? This discerning book investigates
whether these changes in perception correlate to actual changes
taking place in the field of robotics. Exploring several streams of
popular culture, including ground-breaking science fiction novels
and films, the impact of these globally renowned works on public
opinion regarding robotics is assessed. Detailed media analysis
identifies the frequency and complexity of common views that stem
from the ideas found in both fiction and scientific research
results disseminated by the news. Recent social science works
dedicated to the study of robotziation are then reviewed,
illustrating current and future debates surrounding the phenomenon
of the 'robot revolution'. Robotization of Work? will be a key
resource for students and scholars studying the organization of
work, IT and digitalization, and cultural studies. It will also be
of interest to anyone engaged with the concepts of artificial
intelligence (AI) and robotization.
Elgar Research Agendas outline the future of research in a given
area. Leading scholars are given the space to explore their subject
in provocative ways, and map out the potential directions of
travel. They are relevant but also visionary. Managing and
organizing are now central phenomena in contemporary societies. It
is essential they are studied from a variety of perspectives, and
with equal attention paid to their past, their present, and their
future. This book collects opinions of trailblazing scholars
concerning the most important research topics, essential for study
in the next 15-20 years. The opinions concern both traditional
functions, such as accounting and marketing, personnel management
and strategy, technology and communication, but also new
challenges, such as diversity, equality, waste and cultural
encounters. The collection is intended to be inspiration for young
scholars and an invitation to a dialogue with practitioners. The
book's contributions are written by well-established scholars. Each
is a leader in their field and will remain important figures for
the next twenty years and beyond. Each chapter starts with a short
summary of the present situation but focuses on the future of the
discipline. The contributors cover practically all subfields of
what is called business administration, or management and
organization studies and include contain topics that are new, such
as invisible organizations or encounters between art, popular
culture and organizing. Outlining the future and the state of the
art, this comprehensive and innovative book is an essential
resource for students and academics seeking to be at the forefront
of future research in management and organization studies.
Contributors include: Y. Benschop, T. Beyes, F. Cochoy, F. Cooren,
H. Corvellec, J. Costas, A. Diedrich, M.-L. Djelic, G.S. Drori, C.
Grey, M. Kornberger, M. Kostera, W.J. Orlikowski, M. Parker, P.
Quattrone, C. Rhodes, S.V. Scott, J. Smolinski, J.-S. Vayre
The author asks: what is the use of the research results that
consist of descriptions of practices rather than the foundation of
principles? And the answers that she provides are so unconventional
and surprising that they make the reading of the book pure
pleasure.' - Professor Silvia Gherardi, University of Trento,
Italy'In this Theory of Organizing, Barbara Czarniawska treats us
to a fascinating journey. Bringing together many of her previous
theoretical contributions into a coherent sum, she constructs an
enticing and highly original conceptual toolbox to read a world of
expansive organizing. Professor Czarniawska outlines a
constructivist perspective of organizing that is both highly
sophisticated and a pleasure to read. This refreshing theoretical
exercise, by a major organization scholar is a must read!' - Marie
Laure Djelic, ESSEC Business School, France This new edition of A
Theory of Organizing continues to promote a processual view of
organizing, and presents a theory developed by combining multiple
field studies with recent theoretical insights. The author defends
the constructionist perspective from idealist interpretations,
demonstrating how people and machines collaborate in constructing
action nets, which eventually produce both the global economy and
its local translations. Helped by information technologies, global
ideas travel across the world - in physical space and in
cyberspace, over national, sectorial and organizational borders,
within and outside organizations - and are then translated into
local practices. Provocative in its questioning of established
truths in the field of organizational studies, this book will
continue to challenge and stimulate organizational theoreticians
and organizational practitioners. It will also prove lively reading
for academics from a range of backgrounds, including management
studies, business administration, sociology, ethnology, and
political sciences. Contents: 1. Perspective: A Constructionist
View of Organizing 2. Starting Point: The Construction and
Reconstruction of Action Nets 3. On Organizing: Narrating the
Organizing and Organizing the Narratives 4. On Stability: How
Institutions Become Inscribed in Technical Objects 5. On
Codification: Ways of Managing Overflows 6. On Management:
Leadership as Service 7. On Change: Is it Possible to Lift Oneself
by The Hair? 8. On Imitation and Fashion: How Ideas Travel Around
the World 9. On Gender: How Global is Discrimination? 10. On Speed
and Slowness: Remembering and Forgetting 11. Epilogue: Organizing
Without Organizations? References Index
Elgar Research Agendas outline the future of research in a given
area. Leading scholars are given the space to explore their subject
in provocative ways, and map out the potential directions of
travel. They are relevant but also visionary. Managing and
organizing are now central phenomena in contemporary societies. It
is essential they are studied from a variety of perspectives, and
with equal attention paid to their past, their present, and their
future. This book collects opinions of trailblazing scholars
concerning the most important research topics, essential for study
in the next 15-20 years. The opinions concern both traditional
functions, such as accounting and marketing, personnel management
and strategy, technology and communication, but also new
challenges, such as diversity, equality, waste and cultural
encounters. The collection is intended to be inspiration for young
scholars and an invitation to a dialogue with practitioners. The
book's contributions are written by well-established scholars. Each
is a leader in their field and will remain important figures for
the next twenty years and beyond. Each chapter starts with a short
summary of the present situation but focuses on the future of the
discipline. The contributors cover practically all subfields of
what is called business administration, or management and
organization studies and include contain topics that are new, such
as invisible organizations or encounters between art, popular
culture and organizing. Outlining the future and the state of the
art, this comprehensive and innovative book is an essential
resource for students and academics seeking to be at the forefront
of future research in management and organization studies.
Contributors include: Y. Benschop, T. Beyes, F. Cochoy, F. Cooren,
H. Corvellec, J. Costas, A. Diedrich, M.-L. Djelic, G.S. Drori, C.
Grey, M. Kornberger, M. Kostera, W.J. Orlikowski, M. Parker, P.
Quattrone, C. Rhodes, S.V. Scott, J. Smolinski, J.-S. Vayre
"It is simply too much" is a common complaint of the modern age.
This book looks at how people and institutions deal with overflow -
of information, consumption or choices. The essays explore the ways
in which notions of overflow - framed in terms of excess and
abundance or their implicit opposites, scarcity and dearth - crop
up in a number of contexts such as sociological and economic
theory, management consulting, consumer studies, and the politics
of everyday life. Chapters range from studies of overload at home,
at work or in the world of cyber information; strategies of coping
with overflow in institutions such as news agencies; and historical
comparisons. When, where, how and for whom is overflow a problem or
a blessing?
Casting the Other: Maintaining Gender Inequalities in the Workplace focuses on the production and maintenance of gender inequalities in organizations. By emphasizing 'difference' as something to be managed many organizations institute the 'problem of difference', and while orgainzations pay lip-service to ideas of equality, their day-to-day practices may be unchanged and unchallenged. Discrimination of various groups such as women, immigrants and older people continues and its dynamics remain unclear, largely because of the difficulties of studying it in the field. Additionally, various programs aimed at removing inequality, such as gender equality of managing diversity programs, may actually promote it by making differences visible and stabilizing them. Management, under these circumstances, comes to refer to the management of appearances which take the place of more radical acts to change the 'status quo'.
Casting the Other focuses on the production and maintenance of gender inequalities in organizations. By emphasizing 'difference' as something to be managed many organizations institute the 'problem of difference', and while organizations pay lip-service to ideas of equality, their day-to-day practices may be unchanged and unchallenged. Discrimination of various groups such as women, immigrants and older people continues and its dynamics remain unclear, largely because of the difficulties of studying it in the field. Additionally, various programs aimed at removing inequality, such as gender equality of managing diversity programs, may actually promote it by making differences visible and stabilizing them. Management, under these circumstances, comes to refer to the management of appearances which take the place of more radical acts to change the 'status quo'.
In this timely book, Barbara Czarniawska and Bernward Joerges
examine the hopes and fears around work and job security inspired
by automation, from the original coining of the term 'robot' to the
present day media fascination. Have these hopes and fears changed
or do they remain the same? This discerning book investigates
whether these changes in perception correlate to actual changes
taking place in the field of robotics. Exploring several streams of
popular culture, including ground-breaking science fiction novels
and films, the impact of these globally renowned works on public
opinion regarding robotics is assessed. Detailed media analysis
identifies the frequency and complexity of common views that stem
from the ideas found in both fiction and scientific research
results disseminated by the news. Recent social science works
dedicated to the study of robotziation are then reviewed,
illustrating current and future debates surrounding the phenomenon
of the 'robot revolution'. Robotization of Work? will be a key
resource for students and scholars studying the organization of
work, IT and digitalization, and cultural studies. It will also be
of interest to anyone engaged with the concepts of artificial
intelligence (AI) and robotization.
Have you ever wondered how organizations decide which news is
important? This insightful book portrays in detail everyday work in
three news agencies: Swedish TT, Italian ANSA and the worldwide
Reuters. This unique study is about organizing rather than
journalism, revealing two accelerating phenomena: cybernization
(machines play a more and more central role in news production) and
cyborgization (people rely more and more on machines). Barbara
Czarniawska reveals that technological developments lead to many
unexpected consequences and complications. Cyberfactories will
prove essential to researchers interested in contemporary forms of
organizing, studies of technology, and media. It will also appeal
to a lay reader interested in how news is produced.
The author asks: what is the use of the research results that
consist of descriptions of practices rather than the foundation of
principles? And the answers that she provides are so unconventional
and surprising that they make the reading of the book pure
pleasure.' - Professor Silvia Gherardi, University of Trento,
Italy'In this Theory of Organizing, Barbara Czarniawska treats us
to a fascinating journey. Bringing together many of her previous
theoretical contributions into a coherent sum, she constructs an
enticing and highly original conceptual toolbox to read a world of
expansive organizing. Professor Czarniawska outlines a
constructivist perspective of organizing that is both highly
sophisticated and a pleasure to read. This refreshing theoretical
exercise, by a major organization scholar is a must read!' - Marie
Laure Djelic, ESSEC Business School, France This new edition of A
Theory of Organizing continues to promote a processual view of
organizing, and presents a theory developed by combining multiple
field studies with recent theoretical insights. The author defends
the constructionist perspective from idealist interpretations,
demonstrating how people and machines collaborate in constructing
action nets, which eventually produce both the global economy and
its local translations. Helped by information technologies, global
ideas travel across the world - in physical space and in
cyberspace, over national, sectorial and organizational borders,
within and outside organizations - and are then translated into
local practices. Provocative in its questioning of established
truths in the field of organizational studies, this book will
continue to challenge and stimulate organizational theoreticians
and organizational practitioners. It will also prove lively reading
for academics from a range of backgrounds, including management
studies, business administration, sociology, ethnology, and
political sciences. Contents: 1. Perspective: A Constructionist
View of Organizing 2. Starting Point: The Construction and
Reconstruction of Action Nets 3. On Organizing: Narrating the
Organizing and Organizing the Narratives 4. On Stability: How
Institutions Become Inscribed in Technical Objects 5. On
Codification: Ways of Managing Overflows 6. On Management:
Leadership as Service 7. On Change: Is it Possible to Lift Oneself
by The Hair? 8. On Imitation and Fashion: How Ideas Travel Around
the World 9. On Gender: How Global is Discrimination? 10. On Speed
and Slowness: Remembering and Forgetting 11. Epilogue: Organizing
Without Organizations? References Index
Barbara Czarniawska is a distinguished scholar and author in the
field of organization. Drawing on her extensive knowledge she has
gathered together other leading experts to apply organization
theory to yet another relevant field of practice - risk
management.There are no prescriptions for organizing in the face of
risk and threat, but the accumulating experience shows that a
well-rehearsed improvisation brings much better results than
planning and construction of formal organizations. This timely book
contains cases of risk and threat where the former strategy
succeeds and the latter fails. The wealth of cases presented
includes the Marburg virus outbreak in Angola, bird flu, health
insurance after the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami, and the Tjorn bridge
catastrophe in Sweden. Graduate and postgraduate students in
business and management schools, as well as academics teaching
courses in risk management across disciplines should not be without
this book. Risk management specialists will also find this book
invaluable.
Have you ever wondered how organizations decide which news is
important? This insightful book portrays in detail everyday work in
three news agencies: Swedish TT, Italian ANSA and the worldwide
Reuters. This unique study is about organizing rather than
journalism, revealing two accelerating phenomena: cybernization
(machines play a more and more central role in news production) and
cyborgization (people rely more and more on machines). Barbara
Czarniawska reveals that technological developments lead to many
unexpected consequences and complications. Cyberfactories will
prove essential to researchers interested in contemporary forms of
organizing, studies of technology, and media. It will also appeal
to a lay reader interested in how news is produced.
What does a stockbroker in Istanbul navigating the rush of incoming
trading figures have in common with a mother in Stockholm trying to
organize a growing pile of baby clothes? They are both coping with
excess or overflow. This book explores the ways in which
institutions, corporations and individuals define and manage
situations of 'too much' - too much information, too many choices,
too many commodities or too many tasks. By analyzing a wide range
of settings - from corporate firms and public administration to
everyday domestic routines - the book offers an in-depth
understanding of the complexities of overflow phenomena. It
questions when, where and why overflow emerges and for whom this is
a problem or a blessing. This broad introduction to a striking
contemporary phenomenon will prove an enlightening read for a
wide-ranging audience including academics and researchers in the
disciplines of business and management, political science, economic
history and sociology. Contributors: H. Brembeck, F. Cochoy, H.
Corvellec, B. Czarniawska, M. Czubaj, P. Donatella, K.M. Ekstroem,
S. Fellman, O. Loefgren, L. Noren, M. Pantzar, A. Popp, E. Raviola,
R. Solli, E. Tarim, J. Wentzer, R. Willim
This collection of field studies offers novel insights into the
issues of migration and integration of immigrants. The focus of the
chapters is on actions, processes, and complexity of organising
practices, in contrast to more policy-oriented works. The
contributors address vital questions: How is the labour market
integration of refugees and other immigrants being organised in
practice? What ideas of integration give rise to, and are promoted
by contemporary integration initiatives? And what are the effects
of these integration initiatives – on immigrants’ lives, and on
their labour market integration in terms of diversity, gender, and
power relations? With contributions highlighting the
importance of coordination and collaboration for the successful
organising of integration, this book should be of interest to
researchers and advanced students from the fields of management and
organisation studies, public administration and management,
migration and integration studies, sociology, cultural studies and
science and technology studies. It should also interest
professionals and policymakers working with integration who face
the challenges described here in their daily work.
Management of big cities is a relatively unresearched area, as
compared to city planning and city governance. A study of Warsaw
city management reveals the transformation process typically found
in European countries in political and economic transition. In A
City Reframed, Czarniawska conceptualises city management as an
"action-net" under transformation, where three types of action are
in focus: "muddling through," or coping with daily problems;
"reframing," or changing the frame of interpretation of the world
in order to take successful action; and "anchoring," the testing of
new ideas on potentially involved parties in order to secure
cooperation or minimize resistance. "Muddling through" is central
to management in Warsaw, as it no doubt has always been: it is this
"muddling through" that makes cities function. The specificity of
the Warsaw picture is its demand for "reframing" and numerous and
varied attempts have been made to achieve a "change of frame." They
were sometimes successful, sometimes not, the skill of anchoring
only slowly emerging from the most recent past, with the sediments
of the old regimes an obvious obstacle. The study pinpoints the
phenomena central to the construction of the action-net of city
management, and traces its further connections (or lack of such),
both temporally and spatially.
Management Education and Humanities argues that management teachers
and researchers seem to be increasingly dissatisfied with the way
managers are usually educated in western countries. It claims that
educational practices and methods would greatly benefit from
reflection on the implicit assumptions and paradigms behind those
practices, and debates the role that humanism and humanities might
play in the formation of new managerial elites. The book examines
three themes that have emerged as central to the contemporary
debate on management education: the profession of management;
humanism as a philosophy and worldview; and the humanities as an
academic field where management schools could find new inspirations
for curricula. All three themes are scrutinized in a frame of
reference extended between two different points of view: the
traditional view, with its tendency to idealize (and even sometimes
romanticize) humanism, the humanities and management as a social
function; and the 'past-modern' view, which is inclined to
skepticism and to the deconstruction of social and cultural
phenomena. Providing a lively account of this ongoing debate and
exploring new trends and experiences in management education, this
book will be invaluable reading for teachers, students and
researchers of management, management strategy, and organizational
behaviour.
"It is simply too much" is a common complaint of the modern age.
This book looks at how people and institutions deal with overflow -
of information, consumption or choices. The essays explore the ways
in which notions of overflow - framed in terms of excess and
abundance or their implicit opposites, scarcity and dearth - crop
up in a number of contexts such as sociological and economic
theory, management consulting, consumer studies, and the politics
of everyday life. Chapters range from studies of overload at home,
at work or in the world of cyber information; strategies of coping
with overflow in institutions such as news agencies; and historical
comparisons. When, where, how and for whom is overflow a problem or
a blessing?
Barbara Czarniawska is a distinguished scholar and author in the
field of organization. Drawing on her extensive knowledge she has
gathered together other leading experts to apply organization
theory to yet another relevant field of practice - risk
management.There are no prescriptions for organizing in the face of
risk and threat, but the accumulating experience shows that a
well-rehearsed improvisation brings much better results than
planning and construction of formal organizations. This timely book
contains cases of risk and threat where the former strategy
succeeds and the latter fails. The wealth of cases presented
includes the Marburg virus outbreak in Angola, bird flu, health
insurance after the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami, and the Tjorn bridge
catastrophe in Sweden. Graduate and postgraduate students in
business and management schools, as well as academics teaching
courses in risk management across disciplines should not be without
this book. Risk management specialists will also find this book
invaluable.
This book explores the ways in which different generations think
about how the welfare state is organised at present, and how it
will be organised in future. Using the results of a study from
Canada, Australia and Sweden, the book's findings complement more
traditional studies of the welfare sector, capturing the anxieties
of citizens about the present and future of their countries'
welfare models, and presenting their thoughts on how the system can
be re-organised in future. Positioning their three-country study
within the history of the welfare state around the world, the
authors seek to re-assess the role of the welfare state in
governments around the world. Their findings will be of interest to
those studying welfare policy as well as innovations such as basic
income, e-health and policy responses to automisation.
Management Education and Humanities argues that management teachers
and researchers seem to be increasingly dissatisfied with the way
managers are usually educated in western countries. It claims that
educational practices and methods would greatly benefit from
reflection on the implicit assumptions and paradigms behind those
practices, and debates the role that humanism and humanities might
play in the formation of new managerial elites. The book examines
three themes that have emerged as central to the contemporary
debate on management education: the profession of management;
humanism as a philosophy and worldview; and the humanities as an
academic field where management schools could find new inspirations
for curricula. All three themes are scrutinized in a frame of
reference extended between two different points of view: the
traditional view, with its tendency to idealize (and even sometimes
romanticize) humanism, the humanities and management as a social
function; and the 'past-modern' view, which is inclined to
skepticism and to the deconstruction of social and cultural
phenomena. Providing a lively account of this ongoing debate and
exploring new trends and experiences in management education, this
book will be invaluable reading for teachers, students and
researchers of management, management strategy, and organizational
behaviour.
What does a stockbroker in Istanbul navigating the rush of incoming
trading figures have in common with a mother in Stockholm trying to
organize a growing pile of baby clothes? They are both coping with
excess or overflow. This book explores the ways in which
institutions, corporations and individuals define and manage
situations of 'too much' - too much information, too many choices,
too many commodities or too many tasks. By analyzing a wide range
of settings - from corporate firms and public administration to
everyday domestic routines - the book offers an in-depth
understanding of the complexities of overflow phenomena. It
questions when, where and why overflow emerges and for whom this is
a problem or a blessing. This broad introduction to a striking
contemporary phenomenon will prove an enlightening read for a
wide-ranging audience including academics and researchers in the
disciplines of business and management, political science, economic
history and sociology. Contributors: H. Brembeck, F. Cochoy, H.
Corvellec, B. Czarniawska, M. Czubaj, P. Donatella, K.M. Ekstroem,
S. Fellman, O. Loefgren, L. Noren, M. Pantzar, A. Popp, E. Raviola,
R. Solli, E. Tarim, J. Wentzer, R. Willim
This comprehensive collection presents organization theory in its
historical context. It includes an authoritative selection of
seminal articles published since the 1960s, which exercise
continuing influence on contemporary thinking about organizations.
Volume one addresses classical themes, which predate and inform
modern organization theory. The second volume examines current
trends, and concludes with reflections on method and on theory
writing. An excellent resource for those wishing to deepen their
knowledge of organization theory. This collection will have
particular appeal to people working in the fields of management
studies, psychology, sociology, economics and political science.
Investigating the intricacy of the organization, this work argues
that it is necessary to gather local information about
organizational life and subject it to abstract and metaphorical
interpretation. Using a narrative approach, the author employs
literary devices to uncover the workings of organizations. She
applys 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 study discloses the
paradoxical nature of organizational life: we follow routine in
order to change, and decentralize in order to control.
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