Theory of Organizing

The late Barbara Czarniawska, formerly Professor Emerita of Management Studies, GRI, School of Business, Economics and Law, University of Gothenburg, Sweden

• Contents: 1. Perspective: A Constructionist View of Organizing 2. Starting Point: The Construction and Reconstruction of Action Nets 3. On Organizing: Narrating the Organizing and Organizing the Narratives 4. On Stability: How Institutions Become Inscribed in Technical Objects 5. On Codification: Ways of Managing Overflows 6. On Management: Leadership as Service 7. On Change: Is it Possible to Lift Oneself by The Hair? 8. On Imitation and Fashion: How Ideas Travel Around the World 9. On Gender: How Global is Discrimination? 10. On Speed and Slowness: Remembering and Forgetting 11. Epilogue: Organizing Without Organizations? References Index

‘The author asks: what is the use of the research results that consist of descriptions of practices rather than the foundation of principles? And the answers that she provides are so unconventional and surprising that they make the reading of the book pure pleasure.’