Reconstructing Organization The Loungification of Society /

• Κύριος συγγραφέας: O'Doherty, Damian P. (Συγγραφέας)
• Συγγραφή απο Οργανισμό/Αρχή: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Μορφή: Ηλεκτρονική πηγή Ηλ. βιβλίο
• Γλώσσα: English
• Έκδοση: London : Palgrave Macmillan UK : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2017.
• Θέματα: Business.; Organization.; Planning.; Ethnography.; Economic sociology.; Business and Management.; Organizational Studies, Economic Sociology.

This unique book breaks original ground in management and organization studies by drawing on over 2½ 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...

Πίνακας περιεχομένων:

• 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.