Narrating the Organization Dramas of Institutional Identity

Name: Narrating the Organization Dramas of Institutional Identity
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ISBN: 9780226132297

ISBN-10: 0226132293

ISBN-13: 9780226132297

Edition: 1997

Authors: Barbara Czarniawska

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The most common social phenomenon of Western societies is the organization, yet those involved in real-world managing are not always willing to reveal the intricacies of their everyday muddles. Barbara Czarniawska argues that in order to understand these uncharted territories, we need to gather local and concrete stories about organizational life and subject them to abstract and metaphorical interpretation. Using a narrative approach unique to organizational studies, Czarniawska employs literary devices to uncover the hidden workings of organizations. She applies cultural metaphors to public administration in Sweden to demonstrate, for example, how the dynamics of a screenplay can…

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List price: $27.50
Copyright year: 1997
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Publication date: 4/15/1997
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 242
Size: 6.25" wide x 9.25" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 0.792
Language: English



Acknowledgments


Introduction, or Complex Phenomena Need Complex Metaphors



The Narrative in Culture Studies



On Dramas and Autobiographies in the Organizational Context



Interpretive Studies of Organizations: The Logic of Inquiry



Enacting Routines for Change



Serials: Innovation and Repetition



Talking Numbers: Preferences and Traditions



A Quest for Identity



Paradoxical Material



Changing Devices



Constructing Narratives


Notes


References


Index