Constructing Organizational Life: How Social-Symbolic Work Shapes Selves, Organi

Description: Constructing Organizational Life by Thomas B. Lawrence, Nelson Phillips This book proposes a perspective of social-symbolic work that integrates diverse streams of research to examine how people purposefully work to construct organizational life and the identities, careers, boundaries, strategies, and social practices that define their organizations. FORMAT Hardcover LANGUAGE English CONDITION Brand New Publisher Description Across the social sciences, scholars are increasingly showing how people work to construct organizational life, including the rules and routines that shape and enable organizational activity, the identities of people who occupy organizations, and the societal norms and assumptions that provide the context for organizational action. The idea of work emphasizes the ways in which people and groups engage in purposeful, reflexive efforts rooted in an awareness oforganizational life as constructed in human interaction and changeable through human effort. Studies of these efforts have identified new forms of work including emotion work, identity work, boundary work,strategy work, institutional work, and a host of others. Missing in these conversations, however, is a recognition that these forms of work are all part of a broader phenomenon driven by historical shifts that began with modernity and dramatically accelerated through the twentieth century. This book introduces the social-symbolic work perspective, which addresses this broader phenomenon. The social-symbolic work perspective integrates diverse streams of research to examinehow people purposefully and reflexively work to construct organizational life, including the identities, technologies, boundaries, and strategies that constitute their organizations. In this book, theauthors define social-symbolic work and introduce three forms - self work, organization work, and institutional work.Social-symbolic work highlights peoples efforts to construct the social world, and focuses attention on the motivations, practices, resources, and effects of those efforts. This book explores eight distinct streams of social-symbolic work research, drawing on a broad range of examples from the worlds of business, politics, sports, social movements, and manyothers. It provides researchers, students, and practitioners with an integrative theoretical framework useful in understanding social-symbolic work, a survey of the main forms of social-symbolic work,a rich set of theoretical opportunities to inspire new studies, and practical methodological guidance for empirical research on social-symbolic work. Author Biography Thomas B. Lawrence is Professor of Strategy at Saïd Business School, University of Oxford. Previously he was the Van Dusen Professor in the Beedie School of Business at Simon Fraser University, Vancouver. His research focuses on the dynamics of agency, power, and institutions in organizations and organizational fields, and has appeared widely in academic and practitioner journals. Nelson Phillips is Vice Chair for Academic Affairs, Ph.D. Faculty Advisor, andDistinguished Professor, Technology Management in the College of Engineering at the University of California Santa Barbara. Prior to joining UCSB, he was Professor of Innovation and Strategy at ImperialCollege Business School in London, UK, and the Beckwith Professor of Management Studies at Judge Business School, University of Cambridge. His research interests cut across organization theory, innovation, and entrepreneurship, and he has published widely for both academics and practitioners. He is the Past Chair of the OMT Division of the Academy of Management and is the Co-Editor of Innovation: Management and Organization. Table of Contents Part I1: Introduction to Constructing Organizational Life2: The Social-Symbolic Work PerspectivePart II3: Self Work4: Self Work in Management and Organizational Research5: Organization Work6: Organization Work in Management and Organizational Research7: Institutional Work8: Institutional Work in Management and Organizational ResearchPart III9: Theoretical Opportunities in the Study of Social-Symbolic Work10: Methodological Challenges and Choices in the Study of Social-Symbolic Work11: Conclusion: Understanding the Implications of a Social-Symbolic Work Perspective for Scholars, Change-Makers, and Citizens Review Overall, this is a hugely impressive scholarly contribution. The authors cover all the bases: they build up their theory by proposing a clear integrative model, they elaborate and contextualize it in a fine-grained way through extensive reference to the literature and multiple examples. Finally, they enrich it theoretically, provide methodological tools for empirical research and offer practical applications. They do all this in a very accessible writing style, with multiple guideposts at the beginning and ends of chapters, and useful inserts and exhibits that summarize various aspects of the argument as they go along. Make sure your doctoral students read this, and recommend it to your colleagues! * Ann Langley, Organization Studies *This book is a marvelous treatise...It is a systematic, formal, methodical discussion of principles and evidence of the purposeful, reflexive efforts that make social constructions real. These efforts are built from discursive, relational, and material work that is done in and through social relationships. Evidence of these social-symbolic efforts is gathered from a large amount of management and organization research (the reference section is 36 pages long with roughly 750 citations) If we consider this book as an evocative treatise, then reflexive readers may discover that somewhere in their own thinking, they assume that portions of organizational life consist of social-symbolic work. The logic of this book may help readers articulate that assumption. This reviewers own experience was one of pleasure at becoming immersed in a well-formed logic imposed on a field the reviewer thought he knew. * Karl E. Weick, Administrative Science Quarterly * Long Description Across the social sciences, scholars are increasingly showing how people work to construct organizational life, including the rules and routines that shape and enable organizational activity, the identities of people who occupy organizations, and the societal norms and assumptions that provide the context for organizational action. The idea of work emphasizes the ways in which people and groups engage in purposeful, reflexive efforts rooted in an awareness oforganizational life as constructed in human interaction and changeable through human effort. Studies of these efforts have identified new forms of work including emotion work, identity work, boundary work, strategy work, institutional work, and a host of others. Missing in these conversations, however, isa recognition that these forms of work are all part of a broader phenomenon driven by historical shifts that began with modernity and dramatically accelerated through the twentieth century. This book introduces the social-symbolic work perspective, which addresses this broader phenomenon. The social-symbolic work perspective integrates diverse streams of research to examine how people purposefully and reflexively work to construct organizational life, including the identities, technologies, boundaries, and strategies that constitute their organizations. In this book, the authors define social-symbolic work and introduce three forms - self work, organization work, and institutionalwork.Social-symbolic work highlights peoples efforts to construct the social world, and focuses attention on the motivations, practices, resources, and effects of those efforts. This book explores eight distinct streams of social-symbolic work research, drawing on a broad range of examples from the worlds of business, politics, sports, social movements, and many others. It provides researchers, students, and practitioners with an integrative theoretical framework useful in understandingsocial-symbolic work, a survey of the main forms of social-symbolic work, a rich set of theoretical opportunities to inspire new studies, and practical methodological guidance for empirical research on social-symbolic work. Review Quote "This book is a marvelous treatise...It is a systematic, formal, methodical discussion of principles and evidence of the purposeful, reflexive efforts that make social constructions real. These efforts are built from discursive, relational, and material work that is done in and through social relationships. Evidence of these social-symbolic efforts is gathered from a large amount of management and organization research (the reference section is 36 pages long with roughly 750 citations)If we consider this book as an evocative treatise, then reflexive readers may discover that somewhere in their own thinking, they assume that portions of organizational life consist of social-symbolic work. The logic of this book may help readers articulate that assumption. This reviewers own experience was one of pleasure at becoming immersed in a well-formed logic imposed on a field the reviewer thought he knew." -- Karl E. Weick, Administrative Science Quarterly Feature Clear and concise reviews of distinct research areas in social-symbolic work for those entering management and organizational researchDirects readers to additional resources such as articles, books, and videos for further studyUses accessible examples from business, non-profit organizations, government, social movements, technology, sport, and many othersProvides the historical backgrounds of key concepts for those new to the subject or studying across areas of social-symbolic work New Feature Part I 1. Introduction to Constructing Organizational Life 2. The Social-Symbolic Work Perspective Part II 3. Self Work 4. Self Work in Management and Organizational Research 5. Organization Work 6. Organization Work in Management and Organizational Research 7. Institutional Work 8. Institutional Work in Management and Organizational Research Part III 9. Theoretical Opportunities in the Study of Social-Symbolic Work 10. Methodological Challenges and Choices in the Study of Social-Symbolic Work 11. Conclusion: Understanding the Implications of a Social-Symbolic Work Perspective for Scholars, Change-Makers, and Citizens Details ISBN0198840020 Author Nelson Phillips Publisher Oxford University Press Year 2019 ISBN-10 0198840020 ISBN-13 9780198840022 Format Hardcover Imprint Oxford University Press Subtitle How Social-Symbolic Work Shapes Selves, Organizations, and Institutions Place of Publication Oxford Country of Publication United Kingdom Position Abu Dhabi Chamber Chair in Strategy and Innovation DEWEY 302.35 Affiliation Abu Dhabi Chamber Chair in Strategy and Innovation, Imperial College Business School Short Title Constructing Organizational Life Language English Publication Date 2019-07-02 UK Release Date 2019-07-02 NZ Release Date 2019-07-02 Audience Tertiary & Higher Education Pages 394 AU Release Date 2019-07-10 We've got this At The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it. 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