| Understanding Organizational Culture Contributor(s): Alvesson, Mats (Author) |
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ISBN: 0857025570 ISBN-13: 9780857025579 Publisher: Sage Publications Ltd OUR PRICE: $209.00 Product Type: Hardcover Published: December 2012 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Business & Economics | Human Resources & Personnel Management - Business & Economics | Organizational Behavior |
| Dewey: 658.3 |
| Physical Information: 0.8" H x 6.7" W x 9.6" (1.20 lbs) 248 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: The new edition of this groundbreaking text in Organizational Studies has been revised and updated to keep apace with developments within Organizational Culture. Unlike other prescriptive books about organizations, Understanding Organizational Culture challenges and provokes critical thinking, giving insight in to the field of organizational culture. Mats Alvesson answers questions of definition, explores alternative perspectives, and expands on substantive issues before discussing key issues of research synthesizes for students the advances in the field of organizational culture. The author also uses examples to develop and illustrate ideas on how cultural thinking can be used in managerial and non-managerial organizational theory and theory-supported practice. This new edition contains added pedagogical features to increase accessibility and contains expanded coverage of topics such as globalization. It is essential reading for undergraduate and postgraduate courses in Management and Organization Studies, particularly for modules in Organizational Behaviour, Organizational Theory and on MBA programmes. |
Contributor Bio(s): Alvesson, Mats: - Mats Alvesson holds a chair in the Business Administration department at Lund University in Sweden and is also part-time professor at University of Queensland Business School. He has done extensive research and published widely in the areas of qualitative and reflexive methodology, critical theory, organizational culture, knowledge work, identity in organizations, gender, organizational change, management consultancy etc. He has published 20 books with leading publishers and hundreds of articles, many of which are widely cited and used on higher levels in university education. |