Constructing Organizational Life: How Social-Symbolic Work Shapes Selves, Organizations, and Institutions

by Nelson Phillips, Thomas B. Lawrence, Nelson X. Phillips

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0198840020
• ISBN13: 9780198840022
• Release Date: August 2019
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 394 Pages
• Weight: 1.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.2" x 9.3"