Narrating the Organization
Author | : Barbara Czarniawska-Joerges |
Publisher | : University of Chicago Press |
Total Pages | : 256 |
Release | : 1997-04-15 |
ISBN-10 | : 0226132285 |
ISBN-13 | : 9780226132280 |
Rating | : 4/5 (280 Downloads) |
Download or read book Narrating the Organization written by Barbara Czarniawska-Joerges and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 1997-04-15 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Using a narrative approach unique to organizational studies, Czarniawska employs literary devices to uncover the hidden workings of organizations. She shows how the interpretive description of organizational worlds works as a distinct genre of social analysis, and her investigations ultimately disclose the paradoxical nature of organizational life: we follow routine in order to change, and decentralize in order to control. By confronting such paradoxes, we bring crisis to existing institutions and enable them to change.