{"product_id":"narrating-the-organization-barbara-czarniawska-9780226132297","title":"Narrating the Organization: Dramas of Institutional Identity","description":"The most common social phenomenon of Western societies is the organization, yet those\u003cbr\u003e involved in real-world managing are not always willing to reveal the intricacies of their\u003cbr\u003e everyday muddles. Barbara Czarniawska argues that in order to understand these uncharted\u003cbr\u003e territories, we need to gather local and concrete stories about organizational life and subject\u003cbr\u003e them to abstract and metaphorical interpretation. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Using a narrative approach unique to organizational studies, Czarniawska employs literary\u003cbr\u003e devices to uncover the hidden workings of organizations. She applies cultural metaphors to\u003cbr\u003e public administration in Sweden to demonstrate, for example, how the dynamics of a\u003cbr\u003e screenplay can illuminate the budget disputes of an organization. She shows how the\u003cbr\u003e interpretive description of organizational worlds works as a distinct genre of social analysis, \u003cbr\u003e and her investigations ultimately disclose the paradoxical nature of organizational life: we follow\u003cbr\u003e routines in order to change, and decentralize in order to control. By confronting such\u003cbr\u003e paradoxes, we bring crisis to existing institutions and enable them to change.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Barbara Czarniawska\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0226132293\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780226132297\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Chicago Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 04\/15\/1997\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 242\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.78lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.04h x 6.09w x 0.62d","brand":"Barbara Czarniawska","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":47202626797823,"sku":"9780226132297","price":34.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_4761f235-710d-4a69-91b1-d1df0a55ba9c.jpg?v=1756832921","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/narrating-the-organization-barbara-czarniawska-9780226132297","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}