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Reconstructing Organization Damian P. O'Doherty

Reconstructing Organization By Damian P. O'Doherty

Reconstructing Organization by Damian P. O'Doherty


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This unique book breaks original ground in management and organization studies by drawing on over 21/2 years of ethnographic study in a major UK international airport group.

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Reconstructing Organization: The Loungification of Society by Damian P. O'Doherty

This unique book breaks original ground in management and organization studies by drawing on over 21/2 years of ethnographic study in a major UK international airport group. Much has been written about the 'McDonaldisation' or 'Disneyization' of society, but few have been attentive to what the author terms 'Loungification of society'. A minor mode of organization, but one whose effects are likely to become ever more profound, this study shows how management and organization is itself being reconstructed and reshaped by way of loungification. Drawing on critical management studies, actor-network theory, and debates in contemporary anthropology around the so-called ontological turn, Reconstructing Organization enacts a veritable experiment in business and management studies. Who are these coming loungers? What do they want? Can we manage them? Or will they soon capture us with their talking chairs and 'crinicultural' politics?

About Damian P. O'Doherty

Damian P. O'Doherty is a senior lecturer of Organization Analysis at the Alliance Manchester Business School, University of Manchester, UK. He has published widely in management and organization studies, is the current Associate Editor of Organization and Director of the Alliance Manchester Business School Ethnography Centre.

Table of Contents

1 An Introduction to Loungification.- 2 'MAG Men': Access to the Corridors of Corporate Power.- 3 The Management of Escape: Scattered Attention and Disorderly Convulsion.- 4 Becoming Lounge: Angularity and Disjunctive Synthesis.- 5 'The Lounger': Making and Re-assembling the Airport Customer.- 6 Extending Politics in Organization Studies: The Bob Cut and 'Crinicultural' Politics.- 7 Animals and Organization: Feline Politics and the Nine Lives of 'Olly the Cat'.- 8 Conclusion: Reconstructing Organization.- 9 Postscript: Ethnography at a critical distance: a postscript to Loungification by Fabian Muniesa.

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GOR013449507
9781137489203
1137489200
Reconstructing Organization: The Loungification of Society by Damian P. O'Doherty
Used - Very Good
Hardback
Palgrave Macmillan
20170106
324
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