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Managing and Organizations: An Introduction to Theory and Practice (9781412948784): Stewart R Clegg, Martin Kornberger, Tyrone Pitsis: Books. Most textbooks discuss in vitro organizations: bloodless, lifeless, distorted and inanimated, hence ready for study and dissection. This volume is different. Written as a realist's guide to management, it pictures organizations as they are in the real world: alive, paradoxical, emotional, insecure, self-confident, responsible, irresponsible. This book, in other words, contains life, the life of organizations. To read this book is to live that lifeMiguel Pina e CunhaUniversidade Nova de Lisboa Managing and Organizations is a real adventure...it is a novel, innovative and unconventional textbook, which will not only inform but will also entertain...a real must in understanding the process of management and organizational behaviorProfessor Cary L CooperCBE, Professor of Organizational Psychology and Health at Lancaster University Management School, and Editor in Chief of the Blackwell Encyclopedia of Management Clegg, Kornberger and Pitsis take the reader on a fascinating journey into the new world of management and organization theory. By moving from the individual to the globalization level, students are introduced to the complexities of managing and organizing. Critical and practical, scholarly and aesthetically enjoyable…. What more could be expected of a learning and teaching resource?Richard Weiskopf Department of Organization and Learning, School of Management, Innsbruck University This is an exciting book. It covers the most important concepts in good currency . The coverage is based on the best and most relevant research. It connects with practical problems. It is written in language that is clear and accessible. It contains innovative exercises to help the readers expand their knowledge beyond simply reading this bookChris ArgyrsJames B. Conant Professor Emeritus, Harvard University and Monitor Group This is truly the most exhaustive textbook on organization and management that ever existed. It conveys complex messages avoiding complicated style; it moves gracefully between the summaries of theories and examples from practice, between models to imitate and errors to be avoided, between micro and macro lenses applied to organizational phenomena. While obviously meant as a travel guide - a thorough and detailed manual for the beginners, it offers many unexpected insights and pearls of wisdom even for the most seasoned travelers interested in knowledge of and about managementBarbara CzarniawskaM.A., E.D, Professor of Management Studies, Göteborg University This textbook does the impossible: it presents the latest, most complex and most unexpected research findings, it integrates critical perspectives that challenge managerial preconceptions, and it does all this with clear language and a focus on making knowledge useful. It is no wonder that business school faculty, students, and executives throughout the globe have chosen this as their preferred textJoanne MartinMerrill Professor of Organizational Behavior, Emeritus, at the Graduate School of Business, Stanford University This book is both scholarly and fun. It may even give textbooks a good name! I thoroughly recommend it to all students and lecturers who want something more enjoyable, insightful and enduringly satisfying than Mcmanagement takeaways or force-fed ivory tower correctnessDr Richard J. BadhamProfessor of Management, Macquarie Graduate School of Management, Sydney Martin Kornberger received his PhD form the University of Vienna in 2002. Currently he works as full time Visiting Professor at the Department of Organization, Copenhagen Business School. Trained as philosopher, he researches and teaches about practices of organizing, strategizing, accounting, and marketing, and explores how they shape, and are shaped by, the economy and society at large. Stewart Clegg is a prolific publisher of several hundred articles in leading academic journals in strategy, social science, management and organization theory; is also the author and editor of about fifty books, as well as a Fellow of the British Academy of Social Sciences, a Distinguished Fellow of the Australian and New Zealand Academy of Management, a Fellow of the Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia, and the recipient of significant awards from the American Academy of Management for his contributions to management theory and practice.
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