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Understanding Management
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PART ONE: MAKING THE MEANING OF MANAGEMENT
Understanding Management - Stephen Linstead
Culture, Critique and Change
The Meaning of Management and the Management of Meaning - Dan Gowler and Karen Legge
Producing Clarity - Depoliticizing Control - David Golding
PART TWO: DEFAMILIARIZING MANAGEMENT PRACTICE
Competence, Symbolic Activity and Promotability - Omar Aktouf
Management Rituals - David Golding
Maintaining Simplicity in the Chain of Command
There to Here and No Way Back - Michael L Rosen and Thomas P Mullen
The Late Life of a Cocaine Dealer
PART THREE: RETHINKING SYMBOLIC MANAGEMENT
Management in Context - Steven P Feldman
Culture and Organizational Change
`We Are Our Own Policemen!′ - Stephen Lloyd Smith and Barry Wilkinson
Organizing without Conflict
PART FOUR: CONSUMING AND CONSTRUCTING IDENTITY
Marketing, or the Anthropology of Consumption - Robert Grafton Small
Autobiographical Acts and Organizational Identities - Barbara Czarniawska-Joerges
PART FIVE: CHANGING IDENTITIES
Between Managers and the Managed - Paul Jeffcutt
The Processes of Organizational Transition
Postmodernism Goes Practical - Hugo Letiche

About the Author

My background includes undergraduate and Masters degrees in English Literature from the universities of Keele and Leeds , and a further Masters in Organization Development and PhD from what is now Sheffield Hallam University . More recently I was awarded a D.LItt from Durham University . I have held Chairs in Wollongong (NSW), Sunderland . Essex and Durham before moving to York . I also spent 2 years as a Visting Scholar at Hong Kong University of Science and Technology.

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`A most interesting collection of critical current thinking′ - Journal of Managerial Psychology ′12 articles that review management as a complex set of social and symbolic processes "often characterized by considerable ambiguity and paradox" is Understanding Management′ - Long Range Planning

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