Download or read book The Social Construction of Organization written by Dian Marie Hosking and published by Copenhagen Business School Press. This book was released on 2006 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Why do I write about organizations in poetry? / Caroline Ramsey -- Making your way / Dian Marie Hosking and Sheila McNamee -- Organizational science and the promises of postmodernism / Kenneth J. Gergen and Tojo Thatchenkery -- Organizations, organizing, and related concepts of change / Dian Marie Hosking -- Patterns of engagement / Christopher James Blantern and Murray Anderson-Wallace -- Subject-object relations, knowledge and power / Dian Marie Hosking and Sheila McNamee -- Auditive leadership culture: lessons from symphony orchestras / Niina Koivunen -- Reflections on power in organization / John Lannamann -- Abilities, competencies and selection decision-making / Len Holmes -- The group-in-the-making: from "group dynamics" to "relational practices" / Rene Bouwen and Johan Hovelynck -- Narrative approaches to inquiry / Sheila McNamee and Dian Marie Hosking -- Voicing differences and becoming other: life-stories of immigrants in an organizational context / Lars Nellmann Thisted and Chris Steyeart -- The social side of innovation: a process perspective / Bart Van Looy, Rene Bouwen and Koenraad Debackere -- Learning organizations: the emergence of a relational-interpretive view of organization / Mark Addleson -- Appreciative evaluation in an educational context: inviting conversations of assessment and development / Sheila McNamee -- Wittgenstein, Bakhtin, management and the dialogical / Ann L. Cunliffe and John Shotter -- Consulting: new language, new possibilities? / Klaus G. Deissler --Metaphors / Dian Marie Hosking and Sheila McNamee -- Lev Vygotsky and the New Performative Psychology: some implications for business and organizations / Lois Holzman -- Living in organizations: lessons from jazz improvisation / Frank Barrett -- Dialogue, talk, and debate / Sheila McNamee and Dian Marie Hosking -- Disturbing patterns of engagement / Christopher James Blantern and Murray Anderson-Wallace.