The Management of Meaning in Organizations

Author:   S. Magala
Publisher:   Palgrave Macmillan
ISBN:  

9780230013612


Pages:   265
Publication Date:   25 February 2009
Format:   Hardback
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Historical translations and underground transfers of knowledge and values between cultural domains merit more attention. This book discusses the past, present and future of meaning. It shows how management of meaning in organizations fuels sociocultural evolution in complex societies, changing semantic fields of possible meanings ahead.

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Author:   S. Magala
Publisher:   Palgrave Macmillan
Imprint:   Palgrave Macmillan
Dimensions:   Width: 14.00cm , Height: 2.00cm , Length: 21.60cm
Weight:   0.475kg
ISBN:  

9780230013612


ISBN 10:   0230013619
Pages:   265
Publication Date:   25 February 2009
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print   Availability explained
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Table of Contents

Introduction: Can Values and Meanings be Outsourced and if so to whom? The Past of Meaning (Lost and Gained in Historical Translations) The Present Tense of Meaning (Underground Passages, The Cunning of Reason and the Return of Virtues) The Future of Meaning (Cultural Revolutions, Social Transformations and the Struggle Between Truths and Democracies Instead of Conclusions: Managerial Philosophies and Mirrors of Organizational Cultures

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'The most helpful GPS system to guide us in my opinion is our Euro-colleague Slawomir Magala's [Rotterdam School of Management]...new book The Management of Meaning in Organizations.' - Charles Wankel, St. John's University, New York 'This is a great book. Every scholar of organisation studies should have this book in their library.' - Professor Ken Parry, Centre for Leadership Studies, Bond University


'The most helpful GPS system to guide us in my opinion is our Euro-colleague Slawomir Magala's [Rotterdam School of Management]...new book The Management of Meaning in Organizations.' - Charles Wankel, St. John's University, New York 'This is a great book. Every scholar of organisation studies should have this book in their library.' - Professor Ken Parry, Centre for Leadership Studies, Bond University


'The most helpful GPS system to guide us in my opinion is our Euro-colleague Slawomir Magala's [Rotterdam School of Management]...new book The Management of Meaning in Organizations.' - Charles Wankel, St. John's University, New York 'This is a great book. Every scholar of organisation studies should have this book in their library.' - Professor Ken Parry, Centre for Leadership Studies, Bond University


Author Information

SLAWEK MAGALA is head of the department of Organizational Theory and HRM at the Rotterdam School of Management, Erasmus University, the Netherlands. He is interested in problems of philosophy and sociology of culture. 

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