This second edition updates Alvesson's significant critique of the economy of persuasion, where organizations and groups assign resources to rhetoric, image, and reputation rather than production of goods and services. It examines critical phenomena such as the knowledge society, consumption, higher education, organizational change, and leadership.
This second edition updates Alvesson's significant critique of the economy of persuasion, where organizations and groups assign resources to rhetoric, image, and reputation rather than production of goods and services. It examines critical phenomena such as the knowledge society, consumption, higher education, organizational change, and leadership.Hinweis: Dieser Artikel kann nur an eine deutsche Lieferadresse ausgeliefert werden.
Mats Alvesson is a Professor in Organization Studies at Lund University. His research focuses on leadership, critical theory, gender, power, identity, and organizational image and culture.
Inhaltsangabe
* 1: Introduction: Zero-Sum Games, Grandiosity, and Illusion Trick * 2: Consumption: the Shortcomings of Affluence * 3: Explaining the Consumption Paradox: Why Aren't People (More) Satisfied? * 4: Higher Education: Triumph of the Knowledge Intensive Society or a Statistical Cosmetics Project? * 5: Higher Education: An Image-Boosting Business? * 6: Modern Working Life and Organizations: Change, Dynamism, and Post-Bureaucracy? * 7: Organizational Structures on the Beauty Parade: Imitation and Shop-Window Dressing * 8: A Place in the Sun: Occupational Groups' Professionalization Projects and Other Status and Influence Ambitions * 9: Leadership: A Driving Force or Empty Talk * 10: The Triumph of Imagology: A Paradise for Tricksters? * 11: The Costs of Grandiosity
* 1: Introduction: Zero-Sum Games, Grandiosity, and Illusion Trick * 2: Consumption: the Shortcomings of Affluence * 3: Explaining the Consumption Paradox: Why Aren't People (More) Satisfied? * 4: Higher Education: Triumph of the Knowledge Intensive Society or a Statistical Cosmetics Project? * 5: Higher Education: An Image-Boosting Business? * 6: Modern Working Life and Organizations: Change, Dynamism, and Post-Bureaucracy? * 7: Organizational Structures on the Beauty Parade: Imitation and Shop-Window Dressing * 8: A Place in the Sun: Occupational Groups' Professionalization Projects and Other Status and Influence Ambitions * 9: Leadership: A Driving Force or Empty Talk * 10: The Triumph of Imagology: A Paradise for Tricksters? * 11: The Costs of Grandiosity
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