The Management of Meaning in Organizations

1. Front Matter

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2. Introduction: Can Values and Meanings be Outsourced and, if so, to Whom?

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   Pages 1-33

3. The Past Tense of Meaning (Lost and Gained in Historical Translations)

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   Pages 34-58

4. Cases in Point

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   Pages 59-76

5. The Present Tense of Meaning (Underground Passages between Hierarchies, the Cunning of Calculating Reason and the Return of Utopian Virtues)

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   Pages 77-172

6. Case in Point: Scaffolding for a Critical Turn in the Sciences of Management

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   Pages 173-185

7. The Future Tense of Meaning (Cultural Revolutions, Social Transformations and Media Rituals)

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   Pages 186-212

8. Instead of Conclusions: the Revenge of Populism and the Transformation of Angry Mobs into Mobilized Alternative Social Networks

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   Pages 213-220

9. Back Matter

   Pages 221-265

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Historical translations and underground transfers of knowledge and values between cultural domains merit more attention. This book discusses the past, present and future of meaning. It shows how management of meaning in organizations fuels sociocultural evolution in complex societies, changing semantic fields of possible meanings ahead.

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'The most helpful GPS system to guide us in my opinion is our Euro-colleague Slawomir Magala's [Rotterdam School of Management]...new book The Management of Meaning in Organizations.' - Charles Wankel, St. John's University, New York

'This is a great book. Every scholar of organisation studies should have this book in their library.' - Professor Ken Parry, Centre for Leadership Studies, Bond University

• Erasmus University, The Netherlands

  Sławomir Magala

SLAWEK MAGALA is head of the department of Organizational Theory and HRM at the Rotterdam School of Management, Erasmus University, the Netherlands. He is interested in problems of philosophy and sociology of culture. 

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