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This work is both a theoretical and empirical analysis of the growing use of ideological control in business and administrative organizations. The empirical studies reported in this volume were conducted in different types of organizations and in different countries (Poland, the United States, and Sweden). Throughout this unique examination, the author emphasizes the role of ideologies as vehicles for organizational change--not, as traditional...

Czarniawska-Joerges here presents the first systematic study of how organizational control processes and economic decline are related. As the author notes in her introduction, the typical organizational response to economic stress is a tightening of control--efforts to cut expenses, lay off employees, prescribe budgetary constraints, and more. But, she argues, such a reaction may not be the most beneficial in returning the organization to econ...

Narratives in Social Science Research introduces students to the use of narrative methodology as a research tool. It offers a useful and rigorous framework for the application of these devices within qualitative research. This practically-orientated text provides: · An historical overview of the development of the narrative approach within the social sciences · A guide to how narrative methods can be applied in fieldwork · An explanation of...

Narratives in Social Science Research introduces students to the use of narrative methodology as a research tool. It offers a useful and rigorous framework for the application of these devices within qualitative research. This practically-orientated text provides: · An historical overview of the development of the narrative approach within the social sciences · A guide to how narrative methods can be applied in fieldwork · An explanation of...

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Acknowledgments Introduction, or Complex Phenomena Need Complex Metaphors 1: The Narrative in Culture Studies 2: On Dramas and Autobiographies in the Organizational Context3: Interpretive Studies of Organizations: The Logic of Inquiry4: Enacting Routines for Change 5: Serials: Innovation and Repetition 6: Talking Numbers: Preferences and Traditions 7: A Quest for Identity 8: Paradoxical Material 9: Changing Devices 10: Constructing Narratives ...

This clear, straightforward textbook embraces the practical reality of actually doing fieldwork. It tackles the common problems faced by new researchers head on, offering sensible advice and instructive case studies from the author's own experience. Barbara Czarniawska takes us on a master class through the research process, encouraging us to revisit the various facets of the fieldwork research and helping us to reframe our own experiences. C...

This clear, straightforward textbook embraces the practical reality of actually doing fieldwork. It tackles the common problems faced by new researchers head on, offering sensible advice and instructive case studies from the author's own experience. Barbara Czarniawska takes us on a master class through the research process, encouraging us to revisit the various facets of the fieldwork research and helping us to reframe our own experiences. C...

The specificity of the Warsaw picture is its demand for "reframing" and numerous and varied attempts have been made to achieve a "change of frame". This text reports on the study exploring organising processes in their local context.

With a focus on organization studies, this volume takes readers through the narrative approach to qualitative research, from setting up the fieldwork to writing up the research.