Bücher der Reihe Routledge Studies in Management, Organizations and Society

In this innovative and insightful collection, an international selection of leading management scholars explore key topics in current organizational discourse, including networked organizations, control and ambiguity, technologies, work and responsibility, extending Bauman's liquid modernity to the "liquid organization".

Despite being a critical success factor for an organization, beginning in the 1970s, the term - 'boundary spanning' has had an intermittent research history: there has been no systematic body of research that has evolved over time. This book aims to invigorate, excite, and expand the literature on boundary spanning in a diverse range of disciplines such as sociology, organizational psychology, management, medicine, defence, health, social work, and community services. The book serves as the first collection of reviews on boundary spanning in organizations.

This book challenges the existing paradigm of capitalism by providing scientific evidence and empirical data that empathy is the most important organizing mechanism. The book is unique in that it provides a comprehensive review of the transformational qualities of empathy in personal, organizational and local contexts. Integrating an understanding based upon scientific studies of why the fields of positive psychology and organizational scholarship are important, it examines the evidence from neuroscience and presents leading-edge studies from quantum physics with implications for the organizational field. Together the chapters in this book attempt to demonstrate how empathy helps in the reduction of human suffering and the creation of a more just society.

Focusing on the issues of theorizing on gender and ways of understanding resistance, this volume offers a progressive understanding of the current debate on compliance versus resistance, and highlights the strategies most needed for organizational survival.

"Arguing that most current organisations are orthodox, hierarchical, anti-democratic, oppressive, unfair and unjust; this book presents a viable alternative, a better type of organisation - the democratic organisation"--

Proposes the replacement of the generalised term efficiency with the more comprehensive notion of performance efficiency to provide a basis on which to evaluate management behaviour.

The Organization of the Expert Society makes the argument that current organizing initiatives in the expert society are based in an objectifying view of expertise that risks concealing and downplaying key aspects of expertise. Well-intended organizing initiatives in the expert society thus run the risk of promoting ignorance rather than securing expertise.

This book brings together international research on sexual orientation and draws out its implications for lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans and heterosexual employees and managers. It offers a nuanced look at attitudes, behavior and the dynamics of sexuality in organizations.

Despite being a critical success factor for an organization, beginning in the 1970s, the term - 'boundary spanning' has had an intermittent research history: there has been no systematic body of research that has evolved over time. This book aims to invigorate, excite, and expand the literature on boundary spanning in a diverse range of disciplines such as sociology, organizational psychology, management, medicine, defence, health, social work, and community services. The book serves as the first collection of reviews on boundary spanning in organizations.

Foucault and Managerial Governmentality is about Michel Foucault¿s concept of governmentality. The novelty of this concept is that looks at the ways that populations and organisations are imagined in ways that premise collective gains through expanding individual freedoms. Specifically, how are technologies of freedom devised that improve the overall performance ¿ health, productivity, or parental responsibility ¿ of a given population.

Aimed at scholarly researchers and academics in the field, this edited volume draws upon case-based research from both humanities and social sciences to expand the scientific and practical potential of counter-narrative in and around organizations.

Robert Cooper, who died in 2013, was the leading theorist of organization working in England over the past few decades. Describing himself as a ''social philosopher,'' he was one of the first writers to introduce post-structuralist and post-modern thought into theories of organization but was always reluctant to reduce what he did to being part of ''Management.'' Instead, he concentrated on thinking about organizations and organizing, working with ideas about entity and process views of organizations, and also the dualisms of organization/environment, organization/disorganization, and concentrating particularly on ideas of the boundary or seam which divides and conjoins. He wrote about, and was influenced by systems theory and post-structuralist philosophy, particularly Whitehead, Bateson, Deleuze, Derrida, Foucault and Simmel. Cooper has already been the subject of much commentary but much of his work is not well known, and it deserves a wider readership. The purpose of this collection is to gather together a body of essays which are widely dispersed in journals and edited collections. This is a repository of pieces and extracts which stand the test of time, and scholars will benefit from a collection which pulls together some of his most influential work. The collection also contains two essays, one biographical and one intellectual, about Cooper and his work.

This edited collection shows that the field of International Management has been developed from a dominant perspective that overlooks governance issues `managed¿ by transnational corporations and also the interests, voices and `managerial¿ practices of other agents, such as international organizations, transnational institutions, non-governmental organizations, governments and communities in Latin America.

Pierre Bourdieu, the French sociologist, philosopher, and anthropologist, has been widely studied and analyzed in academic circles, particularly in sociology, where his ideas about power relations in social life helped to define the contemporary field. While many other sociological theories and figures have been extensively discussed and analyzed within the contexts of organization studies and management, Bourdieu''s ideas have, until recently, been largely ignored. Offering an authoritative evaluation of Bourdieu''s work, this book provides readers with conceptual frameworks, empirical examples, and methodological considerations for advancing theory and research in management and organization studies. This book presents an in-depth review of the relevance of Bourdieu''s social theory for organization and management studies, outlining the key aspects of Bourdieu''s approach and situating his work in its historical and intellectual context of the time. An outline of the treatment of Bourdieuan theory by management and organization scholars and a critique of the selective reception of his work are offered. The first edited collection to explore the benefits of Bourdieuan sociology for a management audience, this book is relevant for theory, research, and practice, and will appeal to an international scholarly audience of academics and research students.

This book presents leading edge research and a `global paradigm¿ for the theory of style differences in human performance. It extends an understanding of style differences in learning, thinking and behavior, developing style research methodology, assessment, and applying style in learning, knowledge management, organizational learning, technology and pedagogy.

Aimed at scholarly researchers and academics in the field, this edited volume draws upon case-based research from both humanities and social sciences to expand the scientific and practical potential of counter-narrative in and around organizations.

A bold investigation into a challenging area of study that provides an innovative exploration of our understanding of the textual nature of organizational life,and considers the consequences of textual nature for organizational studies.

Considers how organizations operate as spaces in which minds are gendered and men and women constructed. Covers organizational culture, the gendering of organizations, post-modernism and organizational analysis and critical management.

Offering a challenge to management scholarship, this book exposes the subtexts of five influential texts by Taylor, Follett, Drucker, Mintzberg and Kanter. It encourages readers to recognise the stories that management theories tell, and more significantly, those that they exclude.

This book considers the ways in which the need to show (or hide) particular emotions translate into job roles ¿ specifically those of leaders or managers ¿ where the relationships are lasting, multi-directional and have complex, ongoing goals. The book contends that these multifaceted relationships contribute unique characteristics to the nature of the emotional labour required and expounds and explores this new genus within the `emotional labour¿ species.

Gossip is a complex and ubiquitous phenomenon, widely found and variously practiced by different individuals and groups. This book presents an analysis of gossip and informal knowledge across different national, organizational and cultural contexts, in various organizations in Australia and the UK.

This book addresses the need to bridge the gap between the predominantly "timeless" theories and models that scholars have produced and the daily experiences of employees and managers, in which time is salient and extremely important.