Druck auf Anfrage Neuware - Printed after ordering - Play is a foundational concept that animates life, work, creativity and organization; and while play is essential, it also dislodges the very meaning of these terms. Organization in Play explores different meanings, usages and understandings of play to present novel and insightful perspectives on capitalism, management, markets, bureaucracy and other organizational phenomena. It traces how early capitalism, with its ethos of austerity and distaste for recreation, has given way to a more ludic version in recent times. At the same time, children - those playmakers supreme - have been, curiously, excluded from scholarly conversation about organization. The authors examine this and other paradoxes using a wide range of sources - from Weber to Sesame Street, from Star Trek to Lacan, from Riverdance to Beckett - that shed light on the capricious boundaries between work and play, rationality and foolishness, sense and nonsense. Play points us to the liminal and the extraordinary, where meaning is ambiguous at best, and where conventional notions about order and disorder, movement and stasis, centre and periphery are undone and are put into play. It focuses our attention on the silences and absences, the comic and the theatrical, the folly and the madness of markets, organizations, management and work practices in contemporary capitalism. Drawing on a deep engagement with sociological and organizational literatures, the authors show how a play perspective enhances our understanding of the institutions we inhabit and which inhabit us.

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Titel: Organization in Play
Verlag: Peter Lang
Erscheinungsjahr: 2011
Sprache: Englisch
ISBN-10: 3034302134
ISBN-13: 9783034302135
Einband: Taschenbuch
Zustand: Neu
Abmessungen: Breite: 225 mm, H�he: 150 mm, Tiefe: 13 mm
Gewicht: 350 Gramm

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Play is a foundational concept that animates life, work, creativity and organization ; and while play is essential, it also dislodges the very meaning of these terms. Organization in Play explores different meanings, usages and understandings of play to present novel and insightful perspectives on capitalism, management, markets, bureaucracy and other organizational phenomena. It traces how early capitalism, with its ethos of austerity and distaste for recreation, has given way to a more ludic version in recent times. At the same time, children – those playmakers supreme – have been, curiously, excluded from scholarly conversation about organization. The authors examine this and other paradoxes using a wide range of sources – from Weber to Sesame Street, from Star Trek to Lacan, from Riverdance to Beckett – that shed light on the capricious boundaries between work and play, rationality and foolishness, sense and nonsense. Play points us to the liminal and the extraordinary, where meaning is ambiguous at best, and where conventional notions about order and disorder, movement and stasis, centre and periphery are undone and are put into play. It focuses our attention on the silences and absences, the comic and the theatrical, the folly and the madness of markets, organizations, management and work practices in contemporary capitalism. Drawing on a deep engagement with sociological and organizational literatures, the authors show how a play perspective enhances our understanding of the institutions we inhabit and which inhabit us.

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Donncha Kavanagh is Senior Lecturer in Management at University College Cork, Ireland. He has published widely in the fields of management, marketing, organization studies and engineering. His research interests include the history and philosophy of management thought, pre-modern and postmodern modes of organizing and the sociology of knowledge and technology.
Kieran Keohane is Senior Lecturer in Sociology in the School of Sociology and Philosophy, University College Cork, Ireland. He has published books and numerous articles in the fields of classical and contemporary social theory, collective identities and cultural studies.
Carmen Kuhling is Senior Lecturer in Sociology and Women’s Studies at the University of Limerick, Ireland. She has published widely on the experience of social change and cultural transformation, new religious movements, women and migration.

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