Communication, Power and Organization ( de Gruyter Studies in Organization )

Publication series :de Gruyter Studies in Organization

Author: Mats Alvesson  

Publisher: De Gruyter‎

Publication year: 1996

E-ISBN: 9783110900545

P-ISBN(Paperback): 9783110146226

Subject: C93 Management

Language: ENG

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Chapter

1 Introduction

pp.:  1 – 13

1.2 On multiple interpretations

pp.:  14 – 25

1.3 On knowledge-constitutive ideals

pp.:  25 – 30

1.4 Plan of the book

pp.:  30 – 37

2 Information meeting about a new organization

pp.:  37 – 39

2.1 From structure and actor to situation and communication

pp.:  39 – 39

2.2 The advantages and disadvantages of a situational focus

pp.:  39 – 44

2.3 On this study

pp.:  44 – 49

2.4 A short description of the Multi Group

pp.:  49 – 54

2.5 The information meeting

pp.:  54 – 57

2.6 A commentary on method

pp.:  57 – 66

2.7 Comments on the meeting

pp.:  66 – 69

3 The meeting as a culture-constitutive process

pp.:  69 – 73

3.1 Culture, domination and the social construction of reality

pp.:  73 – 73

3.2 The information meeting in a critical-cultural perspective

pp.:  73 – 84

4 The meeting as an expression of power and an occasion for discipline: a Foucault-inspired interpretation

pp.:  84 – 107

4.1 Foucault's concept of power

pp.:  107 – 108

4.2 Critique of Foucault

pp.:  108 – 116

4.3 The information meeting and the activation of power techniques

pp.:  116 – 125

5 The information meeting as communicative distortion: a Habermas-inspired interpretation

pp.:  125 – 149

5.1 Habermas's theory of communicative action

pp.:  149 – 150

5.2 The information meeting in terms of communicative rationality

pp.:  150 – 164

6 Summary and comments

pp.:  164 – 185

6.2 Comparison of approaches

pp.:  185 – 188

6.1 The three interpretations

pp.:  185 – 185

6.3 Commentary on countervailing power

pp.:  188 – 199

6.4 Some less critical views on the information meeting

pp.:  199 – 209

6.5 On the methodology of multiple interpretations of situations

pp.:  209 – 212

6.6 Conclusion

pp.:  212 – 219

References

pp.:  219 – 221

Author Index

pp.:  221 – 235

LastPages

pp.:  235 – 241

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