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Tracks and Frames
. Ed(S): Skoldberg, K. (Business School, Stockholm University, Sweden)
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Hardback. This volume proposes a classification of organizational types based on studies of managers' actual approaches to "framing" the environment of an organization and possible modes of achieving it between organization and environment. Editor(s): Skoldberg, K. (Business School, Stockholm University, Sweden). Series: Advanced Series in Management. Num Pages: 232 pages, index. BIC Classification: KJU. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 240 x 165 x 14. Weight in Grams: 504.
This volume unifies central parts of organization and management theory that have thus far been fragmented and unconnected. It integrates prior research on organizational types and transitions, and also spawns a number of incipient theories about organizational transformations. The book develops the framework of a "symbolic economy" in which organizations are viewed as fundamentally concerned with symbol-processing devices. A key notion is "planning cultures" - global mental representations of an organization, or collective frames of mind expressing different levels of strategic capacity. Organizational transitions are seen as movements on a buckled or warped field between seven different planning cultures, motivated ... Read more
This volume unifies central parts of organization and management theory that have thus far been fragmented and unconnected. It integrates prior research on organizational types and transitions, and also spawns a number of incipient theories about organizational transformations. The book develops the framework of a "symbolic economy" in which organizations are viewed as fundamentally concerned with symbol-processing devices. A key notion is "planning cultures" - global mental representations of an organization, or collective frames of mind expressing different levels of strategic capacity. Organizational transitions are seen as movements on a buckled or warped field between seven different planning cultures, motivated ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2001
Publisher
Emerald Group Publishing Limited United Kingdom
Number of pages
232
Condition
New
Series
Advanced Series in Management
Number of Pages
232
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780080434322
SKU
V9780080434322
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Ref
99-15
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