Organizational Relationships in the Networking Age

Edited by Willem Koot, formerly Professor of Organizational Anthropology, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, The Netherlands, Peter Leisink, Utrecht University School of Governance, The Netherlands and the late Paul Verweel, formerly Professor of Management and Organization from a Multicultural Perspective, Utrecht University, The Netherlands

• Contents: Preface 1. Organizational Relationships in the Networking Age: An Introduction Part I: The Framing of Organizational Relationships 2. Commitment and Community in Organizations 3. The Performance Nature of Identification: Modes of Management and Actors at Work 4. The Critical Edge of Individualization: About the ‘Culturing’ of Service Delivery and the Performance of Privacy 5. Ideology, Consensus and Organizational Effectiveness in a Fragmenting Society: Western Combatants in the Second World War Part II: Personal Coping Strategies of Organizational Actors 6. Management as a Dead End: How Managers Survive in a Culturally Complex Environment 7. The Discursive Constructions of Performing Professionals 8. Identity Creation in Temporary and Scattered Work Practices in a Relational Perspective 9. Identity Construction and Commitments of Graphic Designers Part III: Shifting Inter-Organizational Relationships and Identity Formation 10. The Construction of Identity in a Fragmenting Telecom Operator 11. Identities and Relationships in the Theatre of the Dotcom Industries 12. Changing Identities of European Farmers 13. Biotechnology: The Production of New Identities 14. Organizational Relationships in the Networking Age: A Concluding Analysis Index

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