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A Creativity Model for the Analysis of Continuous Improvement Programmes: A Suggestion to Make Continuous Improvement Continuous
No full textContinuous improvement programmes constitute an area in which creativity seems to play a vital role. This paper shows how continuous improvement may be studied more effectively in a framework which reveals relationships between the four facets of creativity: products, processes, people, and the press or environment. It is suggested that such a systematic analysis can enhance continuous improvement efforts by indicating how momentum is maintained as the company develops self-reflective (?learning?) skill
Imagination and Organization: A Review of Cornelius Castoriadis's The Imaginary Institution of Society
Get PDF'Of No Interest Except in Economic Terms': Benjamin on Business
No full textReview of Radio Benjamin by Walter Benjamin. London, Verso, 2014, ISBN 978178168575
Essal: Reflections on Fiction, Representation, and Organization Studies: An Essay with Special Reference to the Work of Jorge Luis Borges
No full textThis essai examines how Borges' narrative fiction may contribute to a reconceptualization of organizational interpretation and representation, and thus complexify the thinking of both organizational theorists and practitioners. This exploration is situated against the background of an increasing awareness of the fictionality of organizational life, and a sensitivity towards the representational practices employed by organizational scholars as they seek to construct persuasive accounts of the theory and practice of organization. By pushing standard interpretative and representational practices to their limits, we can reveal their arbitrariness (and sometimes absurdity), and thus open up new positions of intelligibility. In the denatured contexts of the digital economy, Borges' fantastic fictions appear closer to temporal experience than the authoritative discourses with which mainstream organizational discourse has accustomed us
Organisational Change and Discourse: Hegemony, Resistance and Reconstitution
No full textThe article considers the discourse surrounding culture change programmes in two British manufacturing organisations. The analysis of organisational discourse is pursued as a means of revealing the indeterminacy of organisational experiences and the problems inherent to the introduction of generic change approaches such as TQM (Total Quality Management) and BPR (Business Process Reengineering). An examination of the discourse used in the case companies will show an intricate set of structural, cultural, economic, and personal pressures passing through the TQM/BPR concepts. Organisational actors from all hierarchical levels are shown to be ?disciplined? by the change discourse to various degrees. Three discursive movements are examined: the imposition/ introduction of a hegemonic discourse, the resistance to this discourse, and the appropriation of the discourse by line managers to reconstitute their actions and those of senior management. The outcome of these movements is a contested set of stories, full of contradiction and ambiguity. If the change discourse is to be embodied in local practices it cannot remain purely monologic, but has to engage in a dialogic relationship with existing and emerging concepts and meaning
Review Essay: Adventures in Financeland
No full textAn Engine, Not a Camera: How Financial Models Shape Markets by Donald MacKenzie. Cambridge, MA, MIT Press, 2006, ISBN 0262134608. Pages: 377. 25.95 (hbk) Out of the Pits: Traders and Technology from Chicago to London by Caitlin Zaloom. Chicago, IL, University of Chicago Press, 2006. ISBN 0226978133. Pages: 224. 18.50 (hbk) Do Economists Make Markets? On the Performativity of Economics by Donald MacKenzie, Fabian Muniesa and Lucia Siu. Princeton, NJ, Princeton University Press, 2007. ISBN 0691130163. Pages: 373. 35.00 (hbk
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