Organizations rely extensively upon a myriad of images and pictorial representations such as budgets, schedules, reports, graphs, and organizational charts to name but a few. Visual images play an integral role in the process of organizing. This volume argues that images in organizations are 'performative', meaning that they can be seen as performances, rather than mere representations, that play a significant role in all kind of organizational activities. Imagining Organizations opens up new ways of imagining business through an interdisciplinary approach that captures the role of visualizations and their performances. Contributions to this volume challenge this orthodox view to explore how images in business, organizing and organizations are viewed in a static and rigid form. Imagining Business addresses the question of how we visualize organizations and their activities as an important aspect of managerial work, focusing on practices and performances, organizing and ordering, and media and technologies. Moreover, it aims to provide a focal point for the growing collection of studies that explore how various business artifacts draw on the power of the visual to enable various forms of organizing and organizations in diverse contexts.

Organizations rely extensively upon a myriad of images and pictorial representations such as budgets, schedules, reports, graphs, and organizational charts to name but a few. Visual images play an integral role in the process of organizing. This volume argues that images in organizations are 'performative', meaning that they can be seen as performances, rather than mere representations, that play a significant role in all kind of organizational activities. Imagining Organizations opens up new ways of imagining business through an interdisciplinary approach that captures the role of visualizations and their performances. Contributions to this volume challenge this orthodox view to explore how images in business, organizing and organizations are viewed in a static and rigid form. Imagining Business addresses the question of how we visualize organizations and their activities as an important aspect of managerial work, focusing on practices and performances, organizing and ordering, and media and technologies. Moreover, it aims to provide a focal point for the growing collection of studies that explore how various business artifacts draw on the power of the visual to enable various forms of organizing and organizations in diverse contexts.

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Gold medal winner for humour and silver medalist for best design non-fiction for the 2013 Next Generation Indie Book Awards, an internationally prestigious awards program known as "the Sundance of the book publishing industry. Finalist for the Foreword Reviews 2014 Book of the Year awards

Chris MacLean performs stand-up comedy in the United States, Britain and Canada and is from Toronto. Chris has appeared in film, television, radio, print and online media and is the subject of a documentary. Chris achieved success in stand-up comedy faster than most, has helped many others on their comedy journey, and has found that getting into comedy has opened up a wider world of exciting opportunities.

A must read for children from ages 7-11, but also great as a family book for parents who wish to read to their younger children ages 4-7. It's adventurous, funny, informative, full of rhymes and theirs nothing else like it. BearWild is an enchanting tale full of rhymes and bursting with colors. In this one of a kind bear story four special bears search independently from one another for a new place to call home. Their journeys end up being quite an adventure and on their way they all encounter different dangers. The bears eventually meet one another and from that moment onward are practically inseparable. Together they explore the magic of nature on their way to finding their new home. However, there efforts are put to the test by a crazed hunter named George and his vicious sidekick Pumadog.