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"This book reimagines what it is to organize or manage in contemporary work environments, though looking at ideas such as culture and objectivity. Emerging at about the same time as Schein's well-known theory of culture, Joanne Martin's multiple perspectives on culture have, until now, been accessed by a privileged few. However, Martin's account of culture is shown to be more nuanced, fluid and multi-levelled. Subsequent chapters reimagine the nature of organizing, rationality and bureaucracy through the works of Judi Marshall, Arlie Hochschild and Kathy Ferguson to provide an equally radical re-reading of what happens in organization and management. These works draw on diverse feminist perspectives to critique traditional accounts and offer new discourses. The same is true of Donna Haraway's work and her refutation of our conventional understanding of objectivity, in favour of a feminist objectivity. From partiality we move to absence, and Marguerite Yourcenar's emphasis on the importance of silences in understanding not only organizations but organization studies more broadly. Smircich and Calás then round off the volume by assessing the contribution of feminism to organization studies, and reflecting on how the field may unfold in the future. This book will be relevant to students and researchers across business and management, organizational studies, critical management studies, gender studies and sociology"--

pt. 1. Ethics and corporate power -- pt. 2. Postcolonial, globalized and cosmopolitan ethics -- pt. 3. Ethics, politics and the functioning of business -- pt. 4. Ethico-political practice in organizations -- pt. 5. Ethics, resistance and struggle -- pt. 6. Difference, ethics and organizations.

Drawing on both analytical and continental traditions, this thought-provoking book takes a balanced look at the contributions philosophy can make to improving our understanding of what it means to organize.The essays consider three areas: representing organization, knowing organization, and the becoming of organization. With originality and flair, the contributors make a powerful case for the need for a new philosophy of management and organization

There is now a large body of research attempting to `discover' the `answer' to the question `what is happening to middle management in contemporary organizations?', following unprecedented levels of delivering, downsizing and restructuring. Two contrasting views, positive and negative, on the state of middle management have been identified in the literature. Adopting a social constructionist framework, this paper argues that there is a need to move beyond current attempts to find the most `accurate' and `truthful' picture on the state of middle management, to adopt a theoretical framework that can accommodate both diversity and agency. Drawing from interviews with middle managers, the paper illustrates how middle managers construct their identities, what discourses they draw on in this construction process and what tensions are present in their attempts to secure economic and social legitimacy during organizational restructuring.