The SAGE Handbook of New Approaches in Management and Organization

Daved Barry, Hans Hansen, Daved Barry, Hans Hansen

• Publisher: SAGE Publications Ltd
• Year: 2008
• Print ISBN: 9781412912181
• eBook ISBN: 9781446204078
• Edition: 1
• Topic: Business
• Subtopic: Business Ethics
• Index: Business

Ten years ago, critical theory and postmodernism were considered new and emerging theories in business and management. What will be the next new important theories to shape the field?

In one edited volume, Daved Barry and Hans Hansen have commissioned new chapters that will allow readers to stay one step ahead of the latest thinking. Contributors draw on research and practice to introduce ideas that are considered ?fringe? and controversial today, but may be key theoretical contributions tomorrow.

Each chapter sets these ideas in their historical context, lays out the key theoretical positions taken by each new approach and makes it clear why these approaches are different to more mainstream concepts. Throughout, contributors refer to existing studies that show how these developing themes will change the business and management arena.

Researchers, teachers and advanced students who are interested in the future of Business and Management scholarship will want to read this Handbook.

Table of contents

• Contents
• Contributors
• Introduction
• PART 1- Looking at Organizations
• 1.1 The Future of Critical Management Studies
• 1.2 The Art of…
• 1.3 How We Know What We Know: The Potentiality of Art and Aesthetics
• 1.4 Alterity/Identity Interplay in Image Construction
• 1.5 Exploring Plato’s Cave:Critical Realism in the Study of Organization and Management
• 1.6 Revisualizing Images in Leadership and Organization Studies
• 1.7Analyzing Artifacts:Material Methods for Understanding Identity, Status and Knowledge in Organizational Life
• 1.8 On the Practise of Practice: In-tensions and Ex-tensions in the Ongoing Reconfiguration of Practices
• 1.9 Statistico-organizational Theory: Creating Organizational Management Theory from Methodological Principles
• 1.10 Indigenous Perspectives on Restorying and Restoring Organizational Life
• 1.11Social Worlds Theory and the Power of Tension
• 1.12 Strategy: Past, Present, Future
• PART 2 - Living in Organizations
• 2.1Spin
• 2.2 Technique and Practices from the Arts: Expressive Verbs, Feelings and Action
• 2.3 Aesthetics in the Study of Organizational Life
• 2.4 The Social Life of Values:Cross-cultural Construction of Realities
• 2.5 Humanist Organizational Studies: An Intersubjective Research Agenda for Open(-plan) Fieldwork
• 2.6 Symbolic Value Creation
• 2.7 The Role of Narrative Fiction and Semi-Fiction in Organizational Studies
• 2.8 Routine Dynamics
• 2.9 The Implications of Aristotle’s Phronesis for Organizational Inquiry
• 2.10 Wisdom: A Backdrop for Organizational Studies
• 2.11Maternal Organization
• 2.12 Strategy-as-Practice
• 2.13 Improvisation in Organizations
• PART 3 - Acting on Organizations
• 3.1Performing the Organization:Organization Theatre and Imaginative Life as Physical Presence
• 3.2 This is Work, This is Play:Artful Interventions and Identity Dynamics
• 3.3 Aesthetic Play as an Organizing Principle
• 3.4 If People are Strange, Does Organization Make Us Normal?
• 3.5 Abduction
• 3.6 Corporeal Leaders
• 3.7 The Craft and Art of Narrative Inquiry in Organizations
• 3.8 Building Community
• 3.9 Situated Knowledge and Situated Action: What do Practice-Based Studies Promise?
• 3.10 Indigenous Organizing: Enacting and Updating Indigenous Knowledge
• 3.11 Un-gendering Organization
• 3.12 Creating Better Understandings of Organizations While Building Better Organizations
• 3.13 Managers Who Can Transform Institutions in Their Firms: Activism and the Practices That Stick
• 3.14 Where Are You Going?
• Index