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Offering a challenge to management scholarship, this book exposes the subtexts of five influential texts by Taylor, Follett, Drucker, Mintzberg and Kanter. It encourages readers to recognise the stories that management theories tell, and more significantly, those that they exclude.

Offers an introduction to the literature on vision and visuality that is relevant to organizational theory, proposes a theoretical framework for visual culture in organizations, and provides empirical illustrations to the theoretical framework.

Proposes the replacement of the generalised term efficiency with the more comprehensive notion of performance efficiency to provide a basis on which to evaluate management behaviour.

Analyzes an organization (IKEA) as a basis for values based service for sustainable business. This book provides an overview of the history of IKEA and the social and environmental perspectives that have acted as driving forces for creating economic value.

Alfred North Whitehead's work is a landmark in process philosophy. Theorists such as Niklas Luhmann, Bruno Latour, Karl Weick and James March have contributed significantly towards a process view of organization. This book interprets and discusses central aspects of their thinking with the help of a canvas of process thinking given by Whitehead.

This groundbreaking new study considers both gender and entrepreneurship as symbolic forms, looking at their diverse patterns and social representation.

Challenges the image of managers as the selfless pursuer of an organization's survival and development. This book explains that individual interests and careers of managers are only part of a wider picture with managers as the ruling class using and misusing organizations for their own personal and group interests.

Analytic philosophy has come to dominate organizational theory and management education, despite criticism from several notable scholars. The European continental philosophical tradition, on the other hand, is seen by some as a counterpoint to US- and UK-dominated functionalistic organizational theories. These two very different schools of thought are now largely practiced in isolation from one another. Late nineteenth and early twentieth century philosopher Ernst Cassirer served as a mediating force and facilitated a fruitful dialogue between the two schools until he was forced to leave Germany when the Nazi party came to power. In Pluralism in Management, author Eirik J. Irgens utilizes Ernst Cassirer's pluralistic philosophy in order to investigate how different but connected forms of knowing, including art, myth, religion, science, and history may help us become better organizational scholars and management educators. With a special emphasis on the complementary qualities of art and science, Irgens builds on Cassirer to discuss how art and science represent two different but complementary channels to reality, in contrast with each other but not in conflict or contradiction, and the challenge of developing "e;two-eyed"e; managers.Revitalizing Cassirer's almost forgotten philosophy, the book illustrates the value of philosophical application to organizational study, and the need for bringing together the best of the humanities and the science based management traditions in order to improve management education.

This book demonstrates how stories and storytelling can be consciously embedded into the curricula of any academic discipline in Higher Education to co-create a better future.

Work Orientations: Theoretical Perspectives and Empirical Findings offers up-to-date research on people's commitment to work and employment and job satisfaction in economically advanced countries. It will also analyse changes that have taken place in these respects over the last decades.

Imagining Business addresses the question of how we visualise organizations and their activities as an important aspect of managerial work, focusing on practices and performances, organizing and ordering, and media and technologies. Moreover, it provides a focal point for the growing collection of studies that explore how various business artefacts draw on the power of the visual to enable various forms of organizing and organizations in diverse contexts.

Foucault and Managerial Governmentality is about Michel Foucault¿s concept of governmentality. The novelty of this concept is that looks at the ways that populations and organisations are imagined in ways that premise collective gains through expanding individual freedoms. Specifically, how are technologies of freedom devised that improve the overall performance ¿ health, productivity, or parental responsibility ¿ of a given population.

This edited collection shows that the field of International Management has been developed from a dominant perspective that overlooks governance issues `managed¿ by transnational corporations and also the interests, voices and `managerial¿ practices of other agents, such as international organizations, transnational institutions, non-governmental organizations, governments and communities in Latin America.

This book presents leading edge research and a `global paradigm¿ for the theory of style differences in human performance. It extends an understanding of style differences in learning, thinking and behavior, developing style research methodology, assessment, and applying style in learning, knowledge management, organizational learning, technology and pedagogy.

A bold investigation into a challenging area of study that provides an innovative exploration of our understanding of the textual nature of organizational life,and considers the consequences of textual nature for organizational studies.

Considers how organizations operate as spaces in which minds are gendered and men and women constructed. Covers organizational culture, the gendering of organizations, post-modernism and organizational analysis and critical management.

This book brings together international research on sexual orientation and draws out its implications for lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans and heterosexual employees and managers. It offers a nuanced look at attitudes, behavior and the dynamics of sexuality in organizations.

This book challenges the existing paradigm of capitalism by providing scientific evidence and empirical data that empathy is the most important organizing mechanism. The book is unique in that it provides a comprehensive review of the transformational qualities of empathy in personal, organizational and local contexts. Integrating an understanding based upon scientific studies of why the fields of positive psychology and organizational scholarship are important, it examines the evidence from neuroscience and presents leading-edge studies from quantum physics with implications for the organizational field. Together the chapters in this book attempt to demonstrate how empathy helps in the reduction of human suffering and the creation of a more just society.

Untold Stories in Organizations makes an important contribution to the organizational storytelling research agenda. This edited collection offers a critical reflection on the politics which marginalise organizational realities.

Aimed at scholarly researchers and academics in the field, this edited volume draws upon case-based research from both humanities and social sciences to expand the scientific and practical potential of counter-narrative in and around organizations.

Despite being a critical success factor for an organization, beginning in the 1970s, the term - 'boundary spanning' has had an intermittent research history: there has been no systematic body of research that has evolved over time. This book aims to invigorate, excite, and expand the literature on boundary spanning in a diverse range of disciplines such as sociology, organizational psychology, management, medicine, defence, health, social work, and community services. The book serves as the first collection of reviews on boundary spanning in organizations.

The Organization of the Expert Society makes the argument that current organizing initiatives in the expert society are based in an objectifying view of expertise that risks concealing and downplaying key aspects of expertise. Well-intended organizing initiatives in the expert society thus run the risk of promoting ignorance rather than securing expertise.

Relational Research and Organisation Studies does not only present and discuss guidelines for practice at a onto-epistemological level but also presents and discusses concrete cases of research projects building on relational constructionist ideas. Furthermore, excerpts of data are presented and analyzed in order to explain the co-constructed processes of the inquiries more in detail.