Communication, Power and Organization

Mats Alvesson

• Publisher: De Gruyter
• Year: 2013
• Print ISBN: 9783110146226
• eBook ISBN: 9783110900545
• Edition: 1
• Topic: Social Sciences
• Subtopic: Management
• Index: Social Sciences

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Table of contents

• 1 Introduction
• 1.1 Aims and frames of reference
• 1.2 On multiple interpretations
• 1.3 On knowledge-constitutive ideals
• 1.4 Plan of the book
• 2 Information meeting about a new organization
• 2.1 From structure and actor to situation and communication
• 2.2 The advantages and disadvantages of a situational focus
• 2.3 On this study
• 2.4 A short description of the Multi Group
• 2.5 The information meeting
• 2.6 A commentary on method
• 2.7 Comments on the meeting
• 3 The meeting as a culture-constitutive process
• 3.1 Culture, domination and the social construction of reality
• 3.2 The information meeting in a critical-cultural perspective
• 4 The meeting as an expression of power and an occasion for discipline: a Foucault-inspired interpretation
• 4.1 Foucault's concept of power
• 4.2 Critique of Foucault
• 4.3 The information meeting and the activation of power techniques
• 5 The information meeting as communicative distortion: a Habermas-inspired interpretation
• 5.1 Habermas's theory of communicative action
• 5.2 The information meeting in terms of communicative rationality
• 6 Summary and comments
• 6.1 The three interpretations
• 6.2 Comparison of approaches
• 6.3 Commentary on countervailing power
• 6.4 Some less critical views on the information meeting
• 6.5 On the methodology of multiple interpretations of situations
• 6.6 Conclusion
• References
• Author Index