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This unique book breaks original ground in management and organization studies by drawing on over 2½ years of ethnographic study in a major UK international airport group. Much has been written about the ‘McDonaldisation’ or ‘Disneyization’ of society, but few have been attentive to what the author terms ‘Loungification of society’. A minor mode of organization, but one whose effects are likely to become ever more profound, this study shows how management and organization is itself being reconstructed and reshaped by way of loungification. Drawing on critical management studies, actor-network theory, and debates in contemporary anthropology around the so-called ontological turn, Reconstructing Organization enacts a veritable experiment in business and management studies. Who are these coming loungers? What do they want? Can we manage them? Or will they soon capture us with their talking chairs and ‘crinicultural’ politics? .

Sociology --- Economics --- Ethnology. Cultural anthropology --- etnografie --- sociologie --- economie

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Climate – Chaos – Trump – Brexit – Terror: the apocalypse looms large in the Zeitgeist. Could and should this not provide the fulcrum for renewing the imaginative range of organization studies? In this volume, we bring together scholars who have taken Roberto Bolaño’s visionary novel 2666 as a starting point for reflections, provocations, and challenges to established imaginaries. How can we cultivate and develop our attention to the violent organization of the world without reproducing more violence? Contributors to this edited volume take on this challenge as they seek to break through the various blind spots in the discipline of management and organization studies. Bolaño’s work opens up hidden and fantastic dimensions in organization and provides alternative spaces and associations for new and bold organizational thinking. Variously disturbing, self-destructive, and abyssal, these essays reflect “that something that terrifies us all” as Bolaño wrote, “that something that cows and spurs us on”. We call this something Organization 2666. The editors Prof. Dr. Christian De Cock, Copenhagen Business School Prof. Dr. Damian P. O’Doherty, University of Manchester Assoc. Prof. Dr. Christian Huber, Copenhagen Business School Prof. Dr. Sine N. Just, Roskilde University.

Economics --- Sociological aspects. --- Economic sociology --- Socio-economics --- Socioeconomics --- Sociology of economics --- Sociology --- Social aspects --- Economic sociology. --- Sociology. --- Organizational Studies, Economic Sociology. --- Knowledge - Discourse. --- Social theory --- Social sciences --- Bolaño, Roberto, --- Bolaño, Roberto --- Avalos, Roberto Bolaño, --- Bolaño Avalos, Roberto,

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Organizational ethnography is located within the field of management and organization studies (MOS) and has traditionally made formal organization its object of analysis. The practice of management has attracted much attention from organizational ethnography which typically considers it to be an activity that occurs within bureaucracies and formal organization. However, in recent years, management is increasingly treated as something more than an occupational practice that includes aspects of governance and nonhuman features of organization (technology, information technology, algorithms, Gaia). This demands ethnography look beyond formal organization to include networks, professional associations, trade unions, and not-for-profit organization. It is also now widely recognized that organization is made up of networks and loose alliances of collaborators that form complex and distributed organizations. Institutions are also organizations but very different from formal organizational in terms of their relations, dynamics, and patterns of order and disorder. Language, family, nation-states, religions, governments, and international agreements might also be considered organizational and increasingly attracts ethnographic work.

Business. --- Sociology. --- Anthropology.