The Management of Meaning in Organizations

S. Magala

• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
• Year: 2009
• Print ISBN:
  9781349284924
  9780230013612
• eBook ISBN:
  9780230236691
• Topic: Business
• Subtopic: Management
• Index: Business

Historical translations and underground transfers of knowledge and values between cultural domains merit more attention. This book discusses the past, present and future of meaning. It shows how management of meaning in organizations fuels sociocultural evolution in complex societies, changing semantic fields of possible meanings ahead.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Contents
• List of Illustrations
• Preface
• 1 Introduction: Can Values and Meanings be Outsourced and, if so, to Whom?
• 2 The Past Tense of Meaning (Lost and Gained in Historical Translations)
• 3 Cases in Point
• 4 The Present Tense of Meaning (Underground Passages between Hierarchies, the Cunning of Calculating Reason and the Return of Utopian Virtues)
• 5 Case in Point: Scaffolding for a Critical Turn in the Sciences of Management
• 6 The Future Tense of Meaning (Cultural Revolutions, Social Transformations and Media Rituals)
• 7 Instead of Conclusions: the Revenge of Populism and the Transformation of Angry Mobs into Mobilized Alternative Social Networks
• Appendix 1 Track proposal for EURAM 2009, Liverpool 11–14 May 2009
• Notes
• Literature
• Name Index