Narrating the Organization: Dramas of Institutional Identity (New Practices of Inquiry)
Author(s)
Czarniawska, Barbara
Czarniawska, Barbara
Using a narrative approach unique to organizational studies, Czarniawska employs literary devices to uncover the hidden workings of organizations. She shows how the interpretive description of organizational worlds works as a distinct genre of social analysis, and her investigations ultimately disclose the paradoxical nature of organizational life: we follow routine in order to change, and decentralize in order to control. By confronting such paradoxes, we bring crisis to existing institutions and enable them to change.
Keywords
Organizational behavior, Public administration, Business anthropology, Organizational behavior--Case studies, Organizational behavior--Sweden--Case studies, HD58.7 .C93 1997, 302.3/5
Organizational behavior, Public administration, Business anthropology, Organizational behavior--Case studies, Organizational behavior--Sweden--Case studies, HD58.7 .C93 1997, 302.3/5
| Name in long format: | Narrating the Organization: Dramas of Institutional Identity (New Practices of Inquiry) |
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| ISBN-10: | 0226132293 |
| ISBN-13: | 9780226132297 |
| Book pages: | 242 |
| Book language: | en |
| Edition: | 1 |
| Binding: | Paperback |
| Publisher: | University of Chicago Press |
| Dimensions: | Height: 9 Inches, Length: 6 Inches, Weight: 0.82893810512 Pounds, Width: 1.2 Inches |
