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9780415126991

In the Realm of Organisation: Essays for Robert Cooper

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  • ISBN13:

    9780415126991

  • ISBN10:

    0415126991

  • Edition: 1st
  • Format: Hardcover
  • Copyright: 1998-06-26
  • Publisher: Routledge

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Summary

The contributors of this book acknowledge the impact of Robert Cooper on their own work and develop further his insistence that organizational analysis must be understood in terms of the rationalization of society as a whole.

Table of Contents

Notes on contributors vii(1)
Acknowledgements viii
Introduction 1(12)
ROBERT C. H. CHIA
PART I Postmodern knowing 13(96)
1 Organizational science in a postmodern context
15(28)
KENNETH J. GERGEN
TOJO JOSEPH THATCHENKERY
2 Forms of knowledge and forms of life in organized contexts
43(24)
HARIDIMOS TSOUKAS
3 Order, disorder and the unmanageability of boundaries in organized life
67(21)
PAUL JEFFCUTT
MUFFY THOMAS
4 After meta-narrative: on knowing in tension
88(21)
JOHN LAW
PART II Logics of organizing 109(133)
5 From bounded systems to interlocking practices: logics of organizing
111(31)
JOSE MALAVE
6 On the rim of reason
142(21)
ROLLAND MUNRO
7 Utilities, toys and make-believe: remarks on the instrumental experience
163(25)
JANNIS KALLINIKOS
8 Negation and impotence
188(25)
PIPPA CARTER
NORMAN JACKSON
9 Re-cognizing the other: reflections on a `new sensibility' in social and organization studies
213(29)
HUGH WILLMOTT
Index 242

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