Hardback
Why Meetings Matter
Everyday Arenas for Making, Performing and Maintaining Organizations
9781803924632 Edward Elgar Publishing
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.
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This innovative book argues that meetings are a crucial feature of modern organizations, demonstrating that, contrary to popular belief, meetings are what define, represent and maintain organizations.
Through an in-depth analysis of ethnographic case studies, Patrik Hall, Malin Åkerström and Erika Andersson Cederholm illustrate the inner workings of meetings, exploring phenomena such as meeting chains, meeting escapes, the digitalization of meetings, subtle meeting diplomacy, and seductive business events. This book emphasizes how negotiations, collaborations and power dynamics are performed during meetings, making meetings the most fundamental working map of organizational hierarchies. Ultimately, Why Meetings Matter highlights the crucial importance of meetings in an increasingly collaborative professional working landscape.
提供a cutting-edge approach to a longstanding social phenomenon, this book will be of great interest to academics, students and researchers in the fields of sociology, political science and organization studies. Including ethnographic studies with practical case-based applications, it will appeal in particular to office-based professionals as it provides new insights into a taken-for-granted workplace activity.
Through an in-depth analysis of ethnographic case studies, Patrik Hall, Malin Åkerström and Erika Andersson Cederholm illustrate the inner workings of meetings, exploring phenomena such as meeting chains, meeting escapes, the digitalization of meetings, subtle meeting diplomacy, and seductive business events. This book emphasizes how negotiations, collaborations and power dynamics are performed during meetings, making meetings the most fundamental working map of organizational hierarchies. Ultimately, Why Meetings Matter highlights the crucial importance of meetings in an increasingly collaborative professional working landscape.
提供a cutting-edge approach to a longstanding social phenomenon, this book will be of great interest to academics, students and researchers in the fields of sociology, political science and organization studies. Including ethnographic studies with practical case-based applications, it will appeal in particular to office-based professionals as it provides new insights into a taken-for-granted workplace activity.
Critical Acclaim
‘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
– Jaber F. Gubrium, University of Missouri, US
