Writing organization : (re)presentation and control in narratives at work / Carl Rhodes.

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9789027298362

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Author:

Rhodes, Carl, 1967-

Personal Author:

Rhodes, Carl, 1967-

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Physical Description:

1 online resource (xv, 133 pages).

Series:

Advances in organization studies, 7

Contents:

Writing Organization; Editorial page; Title page; LCC data; Table of contents; Acknowledgments; Pre-text: On writing a research monograph; Part 1: Writing about organizations; Chapter 1. Introduction: Writing, representation and research; Chapter 2. Storytelling and the heteroglossic organization; Chapter 3. Writing the heteroglossic organization; Part 2: (Re)presentations; Chapter 4. World Services: An official story; Chapter 5. World Services: Three autobiographical (re)presentations; Chapter 6. World Services: An ethnographic (re)presentation.

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Subject Term:

Business report writing.

Research -- Methodology.

Organization.

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Publication Date:

2001

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Carl Rhodes examines the implicit power of writing and authorship that is at play when people and organisations are (re)presented in research. To explore this, the book reports a research project in the area of organisational storytelling that investigates how people in one organisation used stories to (re)present their own learning experiences from the implementation of a quality management program. This research is written in three principal genres: autobiography, ethnography and a fictional short story. These (re)presentational strategies are reviewed to examine how different genres effect authority in different ways. Drawing extensively on the work of Mikhail Bakhtin and on writers associated with postmodernism and poststructuralism, the book offers a challenging discussion of what organisational research might be when the notion of the equivalence of reality and representation is radically questioned.

1 Acknowledgments	p. ix
2 Pre-text	p. xi
3 Part 1	p. 1
4 Introduction	p. 3
5 Storytelling and the heteroglossic organization	p. 21
6 Writing the heteroglossic organization	p. 35
7 Part 2	p. 53
8 World Services	p. 55
9 World Services	p. 61
10 World Services	p. 75
11 World Services	p. 89
12 Part 3	p. 97
13 The\politics of being conclusive	p. 99
14 Post-text	p. 113
15 Bibliography	p. 119
16 Name index	p. 127
17 Subject index	p. 131

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