Writing organization : (re)presentation and control in narratives at work / Carl Rhodes.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Rhodes, Carl, 1967-

Series:

Advances in organization studies ; 7.

Advances in organization studies, 1566-1075 ; 7

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Business report writing.

Research--Methodology.

Research.

Organization.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (150 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : J. Benjamins, c2001.

Summary:

Carl Rhodes examines the implicit power of writing and authorship that is at play when people and organisations are (re)presented in research. To explore this, the book reports a research project in the area of organisational storytelling that investigates how people in one organisation used stories to (re)present their own learning experiences from the implementation of a quality management program. This research is written in three principal genres: autobiography, ethnography and a fictional short story. These (re)presentational strategies are reviewed to examine how different genres effect authority in different ways. Drawing extensively on the work of Mikhail Bakhtin and on writers associated with postmodernism and poststructuralism, the book offers a challenging discussion of what organisational research might be when the notion of the equivalence of reality and representation is radically questioned.

Contents:

Writing Organization

Editorial page

Title page

LCC data

Table of contents

Acknowledgments

Pre-text: On writing a research monograph

Part 1: Writing about organizations

Chapter 1. Introduction: Writing, representation and research

Chapter 2. Storytelling and the heteroglossic organization

Chapter 3. Writing the heteroglossic organization

Part 2: (Re)presentations

Chapter 4. World Services: An official story

Chapter 5. World Services: Three autobiographical (re)presentations

Chapter 6. World Services: An ethnographic (re)presentation

Chapter 7. World Services: A fictional (re)presentation

Part 3: Closing the text

Chapter 8. The politics of being conclusive

Post-text: Pragmatic comments on having written

Bibliography

Name index

Subject index

Advances in Organization Studies.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (p. [119]-126) and indexes.

ISBN:

9786612162633

9781282162631

1282162632

9789027298362

902729836X

OCLC:

70765212