Management and organization paradoxes / edited by Stewart R. Clegg.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Australian and Pacific Researchers in Organization Studies (Organization)

Clegg, Stewart R., 1947-

Series:

Advances in organization studies ; 9.

Advances in organization studies ; v. 9

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Management--Philosophy--Congresses.

Management.

Organization--Philosophy--Congresses.

Organization.

Paradoxes--Congresses.

Paradoxes.

Physical Description:

vi, 330 p. : ill.

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Pub., c2002.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Paradox - the simultaneous existence of two inconsistent states - has become orthodox. The orthodox is now the paradox. The orthodox world of ordering, controlling and organizing is increasingly opposed to a normalizing world of disordering, disrupting and disorganizing. And organization studies cannot avoid changing its conceptions of reality as that reality changes. In the future, organization studies will be the study of paradox, how to understand it, how to use it.In this book of original contributions addressed to management and organization paradoxes the authors address the new state of the field in terms of representations - representing paradoxes - and materialisations - materialising paradoxes. The themes - although varied, ranging from dialectics to internal tensions; from collaborations to ethics and value conflicts; from resistant labourers and wharfies to cartoon characters such as The Simpsons; from the irrationalities of finance to the psychoanalytic rationalities of auditing, and from issues of governance in Asian and international business to the composition of the new knowledge work force in the business professions - cohere around core aspects of paradoxicality.Overall, the contributions to Management and Organization Paradoxes are diverse and challenging. Each contribution takes a different angle on the central theme. All of the chapters illuminate diverse aspects of contemporary paradoxes in management and organization theory. The book provides, in each of its chapters, a challenge to the still overwhelmingly rationalist views of theory and practice that dominate the field and provides new directions for understanding organizations and management.The contributors are drawn from leading European, Australian and Latin American contributors.

Contents:

Management and Organization Paradoxes

Editorial page

Title page

LCC data

Table of contents

Acknowledgements

Chapter 1: General introduction

Part I: Representing Paradoxes

Chapter 2: Management, paradox, and permanent dialectics

Chapter 3: The meanings of risk and interorganizational collaboration

Chapter 4: Workers' playtime?

Chapter 5: Paradox in symbols and subjects

Chapter 6: Politics and popular culture

Chapter 7: From value conflicts to multiple mandates

Part II: Materialising Paradoxes

Chapter 8: Organizational paradoxes and business ethics

Chapter 9: Beyond the 'war for talent' hype

Chapter 10: Expectations, emotions and money

Chapter 11: Psychoanalysis and auditing

Chapter 12: A paradox of governance

Chapter 13: Multinationals, corporate governance and financial internationalisation

Chapter 14: Managing the interconnected organization

About the contributors

Index

Advances in Organisation Studies.

Notes:

Rev. papers from the APROS 2000 conference in Sydney.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9786612255113

9780585462509

058546250X

9789027297822

9027297827

9781282255111

1282255118

9789027233066

9027233063

OCLC:

614512565