Space, organizations and management theory / edited by Stewart R. Clegg and Martin Kornberger.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Clegg, Stewart R., 1947- editor.

Kornberger, Martin, editor.

Series:

Advances in organization studies.

Advances in Organization Studies

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Industrial management.

Organizational behavior.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (305 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Frederiksberg, Denmark : Copenhagen Business School Press, 2006.

Summary:

In this book, the relation between architecture, management, and organization theory is explored. By looking at processes of organizing from a spatial perspective, the contributors reveal interesting insights into how power, culture, change, and identity are embedded, enacted, and played out in and through space. Not only do we shape buildings but buildings also shape us. The interaction between how we design our environments, how these environments influence our behavior, and, by extension, who we are, is the key issue that provides the coherent focus for this volume. Combining both theoretically inspiring as well as practically relevant contributions, the book will be of interest for people studying architecture, design, sociology, and anthropology as well as management and organization theory.

Contents:

Intro

Space, Organizations and Management Theory

Copyright

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements

Chapter 1: Introduction: Rediscovering Space

Space is the machine

Bill Hillier

Space, management and organisation theory

The contributions

Conclusion

Chapter 2: Space, Organisation and Management Thinking: a Socio-Historical Perspective

Introduction

Organisational space: some key elements

Organisational space as divided

Organisational space as controlled

Organisational space as an imposed and hierarchical space

Organisational space as a productive space

Organisational space as a personalised place

Organisational space as symbolic

Organisational space as social

Organisational space in management thinking: main readings

Space in the scientific organisation movement (Taylorism, Fayolism and Fordism)

Space in bureaucracy

Space in the Human Relations School

Space in the managerial thinking of Follett and Barnard

Space in systemic management thinking

Space in cognitive managerial thinking

Space in critical management thinking

Space in cultural and symbolic management thinking

Space in political organisation theory

Space in the psychosociology perspective

Space, organisation and management in the last decade

References

Chapter 3: Spaces as Process: Developing a Recursive Perspective on Organisational Space

Space and organisation

Tenet 1: Organisation is essentially about stabilisation of actions and expectations

Tenet 2: Stabilisation takes place through space formation and reproduction

Tenet 3: Space may be substitutive of organisation

Tenet 4: Spaces form and exist through recursive processes

Whitehead and four perspectives on recursivity

Summing up the theory side

The space of finance control

The space of cognition and learning.

Spatial dynamics

Chapter 4: Moving Bodies and Connecting Minds in Space: a Matter of Mind over Matter

Moving and connecting

Spaces

Connecting spaces

Emerging patterns of polyinclusion

Discussion and conclusion

Chapter 5: Space, Organisation and Management

The development of the American landscape

The development of "Manufacturing Rationality"

Chapter 6: Diversity Management as Identity Regulation in the Post-Fordist Productive Space

Changing spaces: from Fordism to Post-Fordism

Shifting practices at the macro level: the new economic space

Shifting practices at the meso level: the new organisational space

Shifting practices at the micro level: the new space of work

Control in the Post-Fordist Space: diversity management as a mode of identity regulation

Diversity management: regulating individual identity

Diversity management: regulating group identity

Diversity management: regulating organisational identity

Resistance through diversity: re-appropriating identities

Re-appropriating individual identity

Re-appropriating group identity

Re-appropriating organisational identity

Diversity management in the Post-Fordist productive space

Chapter 7: Organizational Space, Place and Civility

Civility as an organisational virtue

Institutionalising organisational civility

Space in civil society

Space and place in organisations

Architectural power

Case study - space and power in a school

Space and large organizations

Space and place

Space, civility and organisationally effective authority

Chapter 8: Built Space and Power

Chapter 9: Organising Space

Power, spaces and boundaries.

Boundaries and organisation

Power and space

Deconstructing boundaries/labyrinths

Deconstructing boundaries/organisations

Strategies for the labyrinth

Spaces in between

Designing space for creative organising: the strategy of the void

Using architecture

Chapter 10: Constructing Nomadic Organisations in Virtual Spaces?

Nomadic travellers and the Internet

The other spaces of Lefebvre and Foucault

Virtual spaces

Visual expressions of web pages

Chapter 11: Electronic Stepping Stones: a Mosaic Metaphor for the Productof and Re-distribution of Communicative Skill in an Electronic Mode

Communicative skill in a globalised discourse

Redressing remoteness: re-tiling reality

Social movements and the shadowing skill: big pharma and beyond

Trade Wars: the struggle between Big Pharma and social movements of the infected and affected

War on Cancer: the global monitoring of the medical establishment by cancer campaigner

SARS: global tracking of the infected

global scrutiny of governance response

Rearranged relationships: creative flexibility

Conclusion: Keeping pace - a challenge to communicative skill

Chapter 12: Trains, Planes, Billboards and People at Kastrup Airport Station: Branding a Territorial Transformation from 'Local' to 'Global'

Space and government: branding territory

Place-brands in a spatial perspective

The double object of spatial analytics

The traveller and the building as representation: analytical reflections

A room of flows

Passing through the Station

Architects and engineers

The billboards: two sets of photographic images

Conclusions: the Station in regional strategy

References.

Chapter 13: Design, but Align: the Role of Organisational Physical Space, Architecture and Design in Communicating Organisational Legitimacy

Defining organisational legitimacy

Direct and moderating effects of messages conveyed through OPSAD

Direct task effects of space and legitimacy communications

OPSAD as nonverbal communication

Designing for appropriateness

Chapter 14: Organisations and Physical Space

Managing physical space in organisations

Framing physical space in organisations

Actor network theory

the sociology of translation

Theories departing from the physical setting

General aspects of physical space

Physical space in organisations

Environmental psychology

Central issues of EP

Perception

Cognition

EP and working environments

Socio-technical systems theory

The three theoretical foundations of STS

STS and office settings

Organisational development theory

Defining OD

The practice of OD

Design theory

Chapter 15: Interface between Organisational Design and Architectural

Crucial competencies needed in designing space

Biggest organisational challenges

Approach to resolving organisational space design problems

Application of approach to more general organisational problems

Organising space: some examples

Addressing the gap between designing space and designing organisations

Chapter 16: Cities as Heterotopias and Third Spaces: the Example of ImagiNation, the Swiss Expo02

Cities and creativity

Conceptual explorations of creative spaces

Potential space and intermediate space

Other spaces or heterotopia

Thirdspaces: qualifying the creative space

Illustrating thirdspaces: The Swiss Expo02

Thirdspacing and non-defining.

Cities as other spaces, imaginative geographies: diverging from the agenda

Spacing/Deterritorialising city-space

Queering/Re-mapping city-space

Culturing/Plateauing (Smoothing) city-space

Transitions

Chapter 17: Transcultural Encounters in Cities: Convergence without Becoming Coincident

Transversal interplay between multiplying and unifying modes of identity construction

To become strangers to ourselves

Radical alterity

Narrow translations constructing "discursive voids"

A reflexive journey opening up for new translations

Crossing the border

Making cultural borders transparent

Narratives for new belongings - identifying transculturality

Chapter 18: Empty Spaces or Illusionary Images? "Stockholm as a Mobile Valley"

Imagining city images

From physical to social space

Moving spaces

Illustrating images of Stockholm

Performative imageries

Empty space or illusionary images?

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed January 5, 2016).

ISBN:

87-630-0309-0

OCLC:

935248857