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The speed of organization / edited by Peter Case, Simon Lilley and Tom Owen.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Advances in organization studies.
- Advances in Organization Studies
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Organizational change.
- Corporate culture.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (231 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Frederiksberg, Denmark : Copenhagen Business School Press, 2006.
- Summary:
- Speed - of production, of information flow, of capital moving through deregulated financial and trading systems - is apparently ubiquitous, as indeed is its seemingly inexorable increase in the consequently ever shorter here and now that we inhabit. But with so much going on, and going on so quickly, how can it all - or can any of it - be attended to? This volume assembles a range of thoughtful contributors who have bent their minds to deploy a range of different perspectives to consider the current fascination with speed and its implications for organizing and organizations. Through writings ordered into three key themes - The Speed of Organizational Identity, The Speed of Organizational Technology, and The Speed of Organizational Imagery - the contributors invite the reader to take gulps of theoretical and reflective air, to hold in abeyance for a moment the breathless talk of a faster tomorrow, to pause to look at the hurdy gurdy. Fast food, dotcoms, hotdesking, and international travelers fly across the page, skillfully illuminated by insights drawn from theorists past and present. The speed of organization will certainly be more vivid after having read this book.
- Contents:
- Intro
- The Speed of Organization
- Copyright
- Table of Contents
- Chapter 1: You Shall Know Our Velocity
- References
- Section I: The Speed of Organizational Identity
- Chapter 2: Fast Capitalism and Slowmodernity
- Tuning In, Turning On, Dropping Out
- Raising Different Kids
- Self-Care, Alternative Lifestyles, Counterhegemony
- The Dialectic of Discourse: Decline or Democracy
- Slowmodernity
- From Food Theory to Critical Theory, Body Politics to the Body Politic
- Chapter 3: The Modernist Pre-Occupation with Speed: A Psychoanalytic and Critical Reading
- The nature of fetish and the ego-ideal: A psychoanalytic rendering
- The preoccupation with speed and the ego-ideal
- The psychological fallout of a pre-occupation with speed
- Organization studies and the modernist pre-occupation with speed: Commencing engaged disengagement
- Biographical note
- Chapter 4: Frequent Flyer: Speed and Mobility as Effects of Organizing
- Introduction: Speed And Mobility As Effects Of Heterogeneous Engineering
- Experiencing And Studying Frequent Flying In Academic Life
- The Making Of 'Light Mobility' And 'Speedy Professional'
- Arrangements and technologies surrounding speedand mobility
- The Others of speed and 'natural mobility'
- Cracks in the networks sustaining easy traveling
- Conclusions
- Section II: The Speed of Organizational Technology
- Chapter 5: Accelerating Organisations through Representational Infrastructures: The Possibilities for Power and Resistance
- Acknowledgements
- 1. Introduction
- 2. Infinite speed and the impossibility of representing the organisation
- 3. Reality, representation and organisational power
- 4. Information technology: accelerating representations, increasing power
- 5. The consequences of reaching light speed
- 6. Highways and assemblages.
- 7. Exclusion and power in representational infrastructures
- 8. Hosting, portality and the Janus-face
- Chapter 6: Hot-Nesting: A Visual Exploration of the Personalization of Work Space in a Hot-Desking Environment
- Introduction
- Hot-desking: a quick overview
- The study - aims and methodology
- The study - context and contribution
- "Putting down roots" - Belonging and Community
- Conclusion
- Appendix 1
- Chapter 7: Mythologies of Speed and Israel's Hi-Tech Industry
- Hi-Tech Organizations and Speed
- Methods
- Deconstructing Hi-Tech Speed
- Technology: Dreaming fast
- Change of scale
- Competition: Speeding up (to the top)
- The bursting of the bubble: From dreams to a realistic tempo?
- Slowing Down to Think: Speed, Organizations, and the Modern Moment
- Sectin III: The Speed of Organizational Imagery
- Chapter 8: Pushing Speed? The Marketing of Fast and Convenience Food
- Our sous-chefs: acknowledgements
- Starter: fast food nation, fast food globe
- Main course: speeding up and slowing down
- No time to stand and stare
- Stop the world, I want to get off
- Coffee and dessert: some concluding cogitations
- Chapter 9: "Outdistance the Competition": The Bicycle Messenger as a Corporate Icon
- Internet, Images, Identities and Signs
- My Way of Seeing
- Visualising Identity
- Fast Subjects
- Virtual/Real Identities and the Internet
- So in the End…
- Chapter 10: The Carousel Event
- Index.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 87-630-0311-2
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