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Reconstructing Organization: The Loungification of Society
Damian P. O´doherty
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Description for Reconstructing Organization: The Loungification of Society
Hardback. Num Pages: 324 pages, 14 black & white illustrations, 2 colour illustrations, 1 colour tables, biography. BIC Classification: JHBL; JHMC; KJU. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 221 x 156 x 24. Weight in Grams: 566.
This unique book breaks original ground in management and organization studies by drawing on over 21/2 years of ethnographic study in a major UK international airport group. Much has been written about the `McDonaldisation' or `Disneyization' of society, but few have been attentive to what the author terms `Loungification of society'. A minor mode of organization, but one whose effects are likely to become ever more profound, this study shows how management and organization is itself being reconstructed and reshaped by way of loungification. Drawing on critical management studies, actor-network theory, and debates in contemporary anthropology around the so-called ontological ... Read more
This unique book breaks original ground in management and organization studies by drawing on over 21/2 years of ethnographic study in a major UK international airport group. Much has been written about the `McDonaldisation' or `Disneyization' of society, but few have been attentive to what the author terms `Loungification of society'. A minor mode of organization, but one whose effects are likely to become ever more profound, this study shows how management and organization is itself being reconstructed and reshaped by way of loungification. Drawing on critical management studies, actor-network theory, and debates in contemporary anthropology around the so-called ontological ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Condition
New
Number of Pages
324
Place of Publication
Basingstoke, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781137489203
SKU
V9781137489203
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99-15
About Damian P. O´doherty
Damian P. O'Doherty is a senior lecturer of Organization Analysis at the Alliance Manchester Business School, University of Manchester, UK. He has published widely in management and organization studies, is the current Associate Editor of Organization and Director of the Alliance Manchester Business School Ethnography Centre.
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