R. J. Anderson, W. W. Sharrock

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Studies in the Practicalities of Executive Management

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Produktbeschreibung

This book examines the nature of work and management, centring on documents as a class of management objects that play a central role as ordering devices, in the social organisation of patterns of coordinated action in situations in which the usual resources of face to face communication are absent. With a focus on managers, the authors offer a description of the interior configuration of the world of senior management, drawing on first person experience rather than ethnographic fieldwork to shed new light on the importance of third person reflection upon practical understandings.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 194
• Erscheinungstermin: 11. Mai 2018
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781351381499
• Artikelnr.: 56838779

Autorenporträt

Bob Anderson is the former Pro Vice Chancellor for Research at Sheffield Hallam University. As CEO of University Campus Suffolk, UK, he led the founding of what is now the University of Suffolk. He is currently an Associate in the Horizon Research Institute at Nottingham University.

Wes Sharrock is Professor in the Department of Sociology at Manchester University, UK.

Inhaltsangabe

List of figures
List of tables
List of Appendices
Preface
Part I: Foundations
1. The world of the senior manager
2. Management as a common sense construct
Part II: Studies in the practicalities of executive management
3. Representations and realities
4. Representations without metaphysics
5. Intersubjectivity and the arts of financial management
6. The contingencies of due process
Appendix
7. Sensitivity analysis as practical modal realism
Appendix
8. Benchmarking as reality conjuncture
Appendix
9. Does it wash its face?
Appendix
10. Plans and their situated actions
Part III: Conclusion
11. Ethnomethodology: a First Sociology?
Index