Making Organization matter: looking back and looking ahead
| Autor: | Daniel J. Lair, George Cheney, Brenden E. Kendall |
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| Rok vydání: | 2012 |
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business.industry Strategy and Management Organizational studies media_common.quotation_subject Public relations General Business Management and Accounting Epistemology Scholarship Politics Cynicism Management of Technology and Innovation Optimal distinctiveness theory Sociology Global citizenship Level of analysis business media_common |
| Zdroj: | Organization. 20:67-77 |
| ISSN: | 1461-7323 1350-5084 |
| Popis: | This article calls upon scholars of organizational studies to take more active roles in confronting and addressing the social, political, economic and environmental problems of today. The article begins with the observation that the birth of organizational studies was deeply concerned with changes, problems and opportunities in an increasingly ‘organized’ world and argues that our studies should not abstract organizing from the world but use our conceptual and practical tools to engage the world fully. We offer six contemporary challenges for (critical) organizational studies in a global society: abstraction and virtuality, diversity and homogeneity, distinctiveness and linkage, boundaries and limits, transformations of labour/work and trust and cynicism. The article urges readers to consider in more specific terms how their work can not only illuminate these issues but also offer something practical, at whatever location or level of analysis, to make a positive difference in pedagogy, scholarship and wider community involvement. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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