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Author Iedema, Rick.

Title Discourses of post-bureaucratic organization / Rick Iedema.

Publication Info. Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Pub., [2003]
©2003

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Description 1 online resource (xiii, 234 pages) : illustrations.
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Series Document design companion series, 1568-1963 ; v. 5
Document design companion series ; v. 5. 1568-1963
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 205-225) and index.
Contents Discourses of Post-Bureaucratic Organization; Editorial page; Title page; LCC page; Table of Contents; Acknowledgments; Preface; Chapter 1. The discourses of post-bureaucratic organization; Chapter 2. Approaches to studying organizational discourse; Chapter 3. A social semiotic view of discourse and organization; Chapter 4. Organizational discourse; Chapter 5. Negotiating organization; Chapter 6. The dynamics of post-bureaucratic interaction; Chapter 7. Recording the organization; Chapter 8. 'Pathwaying' as post-bureaucratic ethos; Chapter 9. Conclusion; References; Author index.
Summary This book considers the discourses that come into play in organizational change. The book outlines the tensions that arise for people having to enact change, and analyzes the ways in which they position themselves in changing organizational environments. The book takes a social semiotic perspective on discourse, organization and change. Here, discourse encompasses not only the multi-modal resources that people mobilize in organizational (inter)action, but also the practices and transformative dynamics afforded by those resources. The organizational changes highlighted in the book revolve aroun.
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Subject Organizational change -- Social aspects.
Organizational change -- Social aspects.
Organizational change.
Organizational change -- Research.
Organizational change -- Research.
Bureaucracy.
Bureaucracy.
Indexed Term Samfundsvidenskab Sociologi.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Other Form: Print version: Iedema, Rick. Discourses of post-bureaucratic organization. Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Pub., ©2003 9027232059 9789027232052 (DLC) 2003052291 (OCoLC)52374267
ISBN 9789027296481 (electronic book)
9027296480 (electronic book)
1282161210
9781282161214
1588114139