Understanding Corporate Life

Helps readers understand the relationship between organizations and everyday experience, enriching both their encounter with the field of organization studies as well as their understanding of the complexities of corporate life itself.

Informationen zum Autor André Spicer is an Associate Professor of Organisation Studies at Warwick Business School. His research focuses on how globalisation is achieved and resisted in and around organisations. He is investigating (1) the implications of globalisation for public broadcasters, (2) the organization of global social movements and (3) responses by organised labour to restructuring initiatives driven by globalisation particularly in the port industry. Underlying this empirical research is a theoretical commitment to understanding globalisation as discursively negotiated process of re-scaling space. André has lectured in New Zealand, Australia, Sweden and Russia. For further information see: http://andre.spicer.googlepages.com/home Klappentext Helps readers understand the relationship between organizations and everyday experience, enriching both their encounter with the field of organization studies as well as their understanding of the complexities of corporate life itself. Zusammenfassung Helps readers understand the relationship between organizations and everyday experience! enriching both their encounter with the field of organization studies as well as their understanding of the complexities of corporate life itself. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction Technology - J Martin Corbett Speed - Christopher Grey Aesthetics and Aestheticization - Philip Hancock Space - Andre[ac] Spicer Time - Karen Legge Globalization - Glenn Morgan Community - Chris Land Identity - Nick Llewellyn Knowledge - Jacky Swann and Maxine Robertson Emotion - Emma Surman and Andrew Sturdy

Autorentext
André Spicer is an Associate Professor of Organisation Studies at Warwick Business School. His research focuses on how globalisation is achieved and resisted in and around organisations. He is investigating (1) the implications of globalisation for public broadcasters, (2) the organization of global social movements and (3) responses by organised labour to restructuring initiatives driven by globalisation particularly in the port industry. Underlying this empirical research is a theoretical commitment to understanding globalisation as discursively negotiated process of re-scaling space. André has lectured in New Zealand, Australia, Sweden and Russia. For further information see: http://andre.spicer.googlepages.com/home

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Introduction
Technology - J Martin Corbett
Speed - Christopher Grey
Aesthetics and Aestheticization - Philip Hancock
Space - Andre[ac] Spicer
Time - Karen Legge
Globalization - Glenn Morgan
Community - Chris Land
Identity - Nick Llewellyn
Knowledge - Jacky Swann and Maxine Robertson
Emotion - Emma Surman and Andrew Sturdy