Coping with excess
Subtitle: how organizations, communities and individuals manage overflows
By: edited by Barbara Czarniawska (Professor of Management Studies, GRI, University of Gothenburg, Sweden) and Orvar Löfgren (Professor Emeritus of European Ethnology, University of Lund, Sweden)..
Publisher: Edward Elgar; Edward Elgar Pub
Published: 2013
Place of publication: Cheltenham, UK; Northampton, MA, USA
Language: eng
Number of pages: 308
ISBN-13: 9781782548577; 9781782548591
Subjects: Workflow; Management; Surplus (Economics); Absorptive capacity (Economics); Process control
Description: What does a stockbroker in Istanbul navigating the rush of incoming trading figures have in common with a mother in Stockholm trying to organize a growing pile of baby clothes? They are both coping with excess or overflow. This book explores the ways in which institutions, corporations and individuals define and manage situations of 'too much' - too much information, too many choices, too many commodities or too many tasks. By analyzing a wide range of settings - from corporate firms and public administration to everyday domestic routines - the book offers an in-depth understanding of the complexities of overflow phenomena. It questions when, where and why overflow emerges and for whom this is a problem or a blessing. This broad introduction to a striking contemporary phenomenon will prove an enlightening read for a wide-ranging audience including academics and researchers in the disciplines of business and management, political science, economic history and sociology.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 279-301) and index.
Table of contents: title: Changing perspectives on the management of overflow  -- Orvar Löfgren and Barbara Czarniawska; title: 'What are we to do with our new affluence?': anticipating, framing and managing the putative plenty of post-war Finland  -- Mika Pantzar; title: Potlatch à la polonaise or consumption cultures in times of transformation  -- Mariusz Czubaj; title: Help! We have too much money!  -- Barbara Czarniawska, Pierre Donatella and Rolf Solli; title: Management of and by overflow: the example of primary healthcare  -- Lars Norén; title: Taking Michel Callon to the Istanbul Stock Exchange: frames, overflows and storytelling  -- Emre Tarim; title: Cloud control: the capture and escape of music as information  -- Jakob Wentzer; title: Transmutations of noise  -- Robert Willim; title: Creators meet companies: Hundred Offices and the opening of frames  -- Elena Raviola; title: Recycling food waste into biogas, or how management transforms overflows into flows  -- Hervé Corvellec; title: The discovery of relations to artefacts in the boundless process of moving  -- Karin M. Ekström; title: Managing inflows, throughflows and outflows: mothers navigating the baby stuff scape  -- Helene Brembeck; title: Lost in the archive: the business historian in distress  -- Susanna Fellman and Andrew Popp; title: Selective knowledge: learning how to forget and ignore  -- Orvar Löfgren; title: Afterword: overflows as boundary events between organizations and markets -- Franck Cochoy.