Grammar of Organizing
Produktdetaljer
Om bidragsyterne
Maria Bengtsson, Professor, Umeå School of Business (USBE), Sweden, Tomas Müllern, Professor, Jönköping International Business School, Sweden, Anders Söderholm, Professor, Mid Sweden University, Sweden and Nils Wåhlin, Umeå School of Business and Economics, Sweden<i>'There are several wonderful moments in the book. . . This book is written in a highly reflective fashion and it will certainly have a place within the continental tradition of organization studies.'</i>
- Dominika Latusek, Scandinavian Journal of Management,
<i>'Anyone who wants to take an emerging, interactive view of organizing will find this book extremely helpful. In building towards and presenting their model, the authors do a terrific job of discussing these complex ideas.'</i>
- Hans Hansen, Organization Studies,
<i>'I found </i>A Grammar of Organizing<i> an intriguing and compelling read. It is a conceptually rich text, which deals with fundamental questions concerning our understanding of and activities within organizations. To this end the authors develop a theoretical framework built around fundamental generating principles of organizing. They support their framework with illuminating case material making it an excellent textbook for Masters level teaching in organizational behaviour or design. An insightful book which will provoke debate as well as provide innovative insights into the complexity of organizing in the twenty-first century.'</i>
- Evelyn Fenton, University of Reading Business School, UK,
<i>'A "generative" grammar of organizing - i.e. a systematic account of rules and conventions based on the concept of activities - that may help us avoid reducing our understanding of organizing to either structure or process features! This is the bold claim put forward by the authors of this book. To support their grammar, i.e. the activity-community model of organizing, the authors draw on multiple examples from organizations as well as references from the current research debate in the broad area of organization studies. The book, which is written in the Scandinavian tradition of organization studies, is an innovative and much welcome contribution to organization research in general and to the study of organizing in particular. In short, it is a distinct contribution that makes a lot of sense!'</i>
- Per Olof Berg, Stockholm University School of Business, Sweden,