Discourses of post-bureaucratic organization
By: Rick Iedema
Series: Document design companion series -- v. 5; Document design companion series -- v. 5.
Publisher: John Benjamins Pub.
Published: 2003
Place of publication: Amsterdam; Philadelphia
Language: eng
Format: [electronic resource] /
Number of pages: 234
ISBN-13: 9789027296481
Subjects: Bureaucracy; Recherche; Organizational change; Changement organisationnel; Social aspects; Aspect social; Organisatieverandering; Negotiating; Research; Onderzoek; Bureaucratie; BUSINESS & ECONOMICS
Description: This book considers the discourses that come into play in organizational change. The book outlines the tensions that arise for people having to enact change, and analyzes the ways in which they position themselves in changing organizational environments. The book takes a social semiotic perspective on discourse, organization and change. Here, discourse encompasses not only the multi-modal resources that people mobilize in organizational (inter)action, but also the practices and transformative dynamics afforded by those resources. The organizational changes highlighted in the book revolve aroun.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [205]-225) and index.

Description based on print version record.
Table of contents: title: Discourses of Post-Bureaucratic Organization; Editorial page; Title page; LCC page; Table of Contents; Acknowledgments; Preface; Chapter 1. The discourses of post-bureaucratic organization; Chapter 2. Approaches to studying organizational discourse; Chapter 3. A social semiotic view of discourse and organization; Chapter 4. Organizational discourse; Chapter 5. Negotiating organization; Chapter 6. The dynamics of post-bureaucratic interaction; Chapter 7. Recording the organization; Chapter 8. 'Pathwaying' as post-bureaucratic ethos; Chapter 9. Conclusion; References; Author index.