Good Novels, Better Management : Reading Organizational Realities in Fiction.
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TextUtgivningsuppgift: Oxford : Taylor & Francis Group, 1994Datum för upphovsrätt: ©1994Utgåva: 1st edBeskrivning: 1 online resource (343 pages)Innehållstyp: - text
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- 9780203985502
- 302.35
Intro -- Good Novels, Better Management Reading Organizational Realities -- Copyright -- CONTENTS -- Preface -- Chapter 1 Introduction: Management Beyond Case and Cliché -- Chapter 2 Docteur Clérambault in Zola's Paradise: Notes on Naturalist Studies of Passion in Organizations -- Chapter 3 Don Quixote and Capitalism in Poland: On the Cultural Context of Organizing -- Chapter 4 On Evil Organizations and Illusory Reforms: A Scandinavian Saga -- Chapter 5 England Expects: Prosperity, Propriety and Mr. Polly -- Chapter 6 Identity, Economy and Morality in "The Rise of Silas Lapham" -- Chapter 7 The Merchant and the Preacher: As Pictured by Multatuli's "Max Havelaar" (1860) -- Chapter 8 Capitalism, Order and Moral Value: Joseph Conrad's "Nostromo" -- Chapter 9 From Escapism to Resented Conformity: Market Economies and Modern Organizations in Spanish Literature -- Chapter 10 Power, Time, Talk and Money: Organizatiom in Italian Literature -- Chapter 11 The Man with All the Qualities: Can Business, Science and Arts Go Hand in Hand? -- Chapter 12 The Gioconda Smile of the Authorities: An Essay on Fictional Pictures of Public Administration and Citizens -- Epilogue: Realism in the Novel, Social Sciences and Organization Theory -- About the Authors.
This collection of essays demonstrates how novels are not only comparable, but often superior to the case histories used in business education.
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