Organization in Play (häftad)
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Format
Häftad (Paperback / softback)
Språk
Engelska
Antal sidor
230
Utgivningsdatum
2011-05-29
Upplaga
New ed
Förlag
Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Medarbetare
Kuhling, Carmen (series ed.)
Illustratör/Fotograf
2
Illustrationer
2, 2 ill.
Dimensioner
225 x 150 x 12 mm
Vikt
350 g
Antal komponenter
1
ISBN
9783034302135

Organization in Play

av Donncha Kavanagh, Kieran Keohane, Carmen Kuhling
Häftad,  Engelska, 2011-05-29
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Play is a foundational concept that animates life, work, creativity and organization; and while play is essential, it also dislodges the very meaning of these terms. Organization in Play explores different meanings, usages and understandings of play to present novel and insightful perspectives on capitalism, management, markets, bureaucracy and other organizational phenomena. It traces how early capitalism, with its ethos of austerity and distaste for recreation, has given way to a more ludic version in recent times. At the same time, children those playmakers supreme have been, curiously, excluded from scholarly conversation about organization. The authors examine this and other paradoxes using a wide range of sources from Weber to Sesame Street, from Star Trek to Lacan, from Riverdance to Beckett that shed light on the capricious boundaries between work and play, rationality and foolishness, sense and nonsense. Play points us to the liminal and the extraordinary, where meaning is ambiguous at best, and where conventional notions about order and disorder, movement and stasis, centre and periphery are undone and are put into play. It focuses our attention on the silences and absences, the comic and the theatrical, the folly and the madness of markets, organizations, management and work practices in contemporary capitalism. Drawing on a deep engagement with sociological and organizational literatures, the authors show how a play perspective enhances our understanding of the institutions we inhabit and which inhabit us.
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Donncha Kavanagh is Senior Lecturer in Management at University College Cork, Ireland. He has published widely in the fields of management, marketing, organization studies and engineering. His research interests include the history and philosophy of management thought, pre-modern and postmodern modes of organizing and the sociology of knowledge and technology. Kieran Keohane is Senior Lecturer in Sociology in the School of Sociology and Philosophy, University College Cork, Ireland. He has published books and numerous articles in the fields of classical and contemporary social theory, collective identities and cultural studies. Carmen Kuhling is Senior Lecturer in Sociology and Womens Studies at the University of Limerick, Ireland. She has published widely on the experience of social change and cultural transformation, new religious movements, women and migration.

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Contents: Playing with Play Childs Play: Childhood and the Lack in Organizational Discourse Playful Representations of Work Dance as Play and Work: Images of Organization in Irish Dance Talk and Silence: Playing with Silence as an Organizational Resource Playing the Fool: The University as Fool Play and Madness in the Market Playing Business: Gambling and Casino Capitalism.

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