Relational Perspectives in Organizational Studies

The contributors to this highly innovative and authoritative research companion, leading experts in their field, apply relational analyses to different areas of organization studies and provide a comprehensive review of the relational perspectives. The book features empirical, theoretical, philosophical and methodological contributions from a wide spectrum of disciplinary perspectives on relationality in and around organizations. They explore areas such as:relational self and dynamic organizingsocial relational contexts and self-organizing inequalitylearning and knowledge creationstress and burnoutidentities in organizationstrust and commitment in the marketventuring as a relational process coordinating work through relationships of shared knowledge, shared goals and mutual respectrelational approaches and social constructionismrelational methods in organization studiesrelational cohesion model of organizational commitmentinterorganizational cooperation between non-profit organizations.Filling a gap in the organizational studies literature, the truly relational approach to the study of organizational behaviours and processes in this highly original research companion will be invaluable to academics, students and researchers with an interest in organizational studies.