Why Meetings Matter

每天竞技场进行,执行ing and Maintaining Organizations

Patrik Hall, Professor of Political Science, Department of Global Political Studies, Malmö University, Malin Åkerström, Professor Emerita, Department of Sociology, Lund University and Erika Andersson Cederholm, Professor of Service Studies, Department of Service Studies, Lund University, Sweden

This innovative book argues that meetings are a crucial feature of modern organisations, demonstrating that, contrary to popular belief, meetings are what define, represent and maintain organisations.

‘The strength and importance of this book is that it shows in clear and plain language the great, social and organizational significance of meetings in our society. It unravels puzzling secrets of our meeting culture and provides surprising clues for further research into the “meeting landscape”. Thanks to this book, managers and (meeting) consultants need to be less in the dark during their professional work.’
– Wilbert van Vree, University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands

‘An outstanding achievement by three prominent scholars of organizational practice. Organizations of all kinds have become prominent venues of definition and decision-making about who and what we were, are, or will be in life. Much of this transpires in meetings. The book superbly captures the significance of why meetings matter in this exceptionally broad landscape of social construction.’
– Jaber F. Gubrium, University of Missouri, US