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Reconstructing Organization: The Loungification of Society

Autor Damian P. O'Doherty
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 4 noi 2020
This unique book breaks original ground in management and organization studies by drawing on over 2½ years of ethnographic study in a major UK international airport group. Much has been written about the ‘McDonaldisation’ or ‘Disneyization’ of society, but few have been attentive to what the author terms ‘Loungification of society’. A minor mode of organization, but one whose effects are likely to become ever more profound, this study shows how management and organization is itself being reconstructed and reshaped by way of loungification. Drawing on critical management studies, actor-network theory, and debates in contemporary anthropology around the so-called ontological turn, Reconstructing Organization enacts a veritable experiment in business and management studies. Who are these coming loungers? What do they want? Can we manage them? Or will they soon capture us with their talking chairs and ‘crinicultural’ politics? 
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781349696130
ISBN-10: 1349696137
Pagini: 324
Ilustrații: XIV, 324 p. 16 illus., 2 illus. in color.
Dimensiuni: 148 x 210 mm
Greutate: 0.41 kg
Ediția:1st ed. 2017
Editura: Palgrave Macmillan UK
Colecția Palgrave Macmillan
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom

Cuprins

1 An Introduction to Loungification.- 2 ‘MAG Men’: Access to the Corridors of Corporate Power.- 3 The Management of Escape: Scattered Attention and Disorderly Convulsion.- 4 Becoming Lounge: Angularity and Disjunctive Synthesis.- 5 ‘The Lounger’: Making and Re-assembling the Airport Customer.- 6 Extending Politics in Organization Studies: The Bob Cut and ‘Crinicultural’ Politics.- 7 Animals and Organization: Feline Politics and the Nine Lives of ‘Olly the Cat’.- 8 Conclusion: Reconstructing Organization.- 9 Postscript: Ethnography at a critical distance: a postscript to Loungification by Fabian Muniesa.

Notă biografică

Damian P. O’Doherty is a senior lecturer of Organization Analysis at the Alliance Manchester Business School, University of Manchester, UK. He has published widely in management and organization studies, is the current Associate Editor of Organization and Director of the Alliance Manchester Business School Ethnography Centre.

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This unique book breaks original ground in management and organization studies by drawing on over 2½ years of ethnographic study in a major UK international airport group. Much has been written about the ‘McDonaldisation’ or ‘Disneyization’ of society, but few have been attentive to what the author terms ‘Loungification of society’. A minor mode of organization, but one whose effects are likely to become ever more profound, this study shows how management and organization is itself being reconstructed and reshaped by way of loungification. Drawing on critical management studies, actor-network theory, and debates in contemporary anthropology around the so-called ontological turn, Reconstructing Organization enacts a veritable experiment in business and management studies. Who are these coming loungers? What do they want? Can we manage them? Or will they soon capture us with their talking chairs and ‘crinicultural’ politics? 

Caracteristici

Presents unique ethnographic study from within an organization Includes the first discussion of the 'loungification of society' and how it reconstructs and reshapes management and organization Draws on critical management studies, actor-network theory and debates in contemporary anthropology