Action at a Distance

Studies in the Practicalities of Executive Management

R.J. Anderson, W.W. Sharrock (Autoren)

Buch | Softcover

180 Seiten

2018
Routledge (Verlag)
978-1-138-50416-5 (ISBN)

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This book examines the nature of work and management, centring on documents as a class of management objects which have been relatively understudied in ethnomethodological research. Treating documents and similar artefacts as ordering devices, the authors describe consociation – the social organisation of patterns of coordinated action in situations where the usual resources of face to face communication are absent. With a focus on senior managers, this volume provides a description of the interior configuration of the world of senior management as the encountered, everyday experience of managing, drawing on first person experience rather than ethnographic fieldwork to shed new light on the importance of third person reflection upon practical understandings. An innovative study of the social character of such management objects as spreadsheets, strategic plans, computational models and charts, Action at a Distance will appeal to scholars of sociology with interests in ethnomethodology, the sociology of work and method in the social sciences.

Bob Anderson is the former Pro Vice Chancellor for Research at Sheffield Hallam University. As CEO of University Campus Suffolk, UK, he led the founding of what is now the University of Suffolk. He is currently an Associate in the Horizon Research Institute at Nottingham University. Wes Sharrock is Professor in the Department of Sociology at Manchester University, UK.

List of figures; List of tables; List of Appendices; Preface; Part I: Foundations; 1. The world of the senior manager; 2. Management as a common sense construct; Part II: Studies in the practicalities of executive management; 3. Representations and realities; 4. Representations without metaphysics; 5. Intersubjectivity and the arts of financial management; 6. The contingencies of due process; Appendix; 7. Sensitivity analysis as practical modal realism; Appendix; 8. Benchmarking as reality conjuncture; Appendix; 9. Does it wash its face?; Appendix; 10. Plans and their situated actions; Part III: Conclusion; 11. Ethnomethodology: a First Sociology?; Index

Erscheinungsdatum	13.06.2018
Reihe/Serie	Philosophy and Method in the Social Sciences
Zusatzinfo	22 Tables, black and white; 9 Halftones, black and white; 9 Illustrations, black and white
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	156 x 234 mm
Gewicht	308 g
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Empirische Sozialforschung
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Mikrosoziologie
	Wirtschaft ► Betriebswirtschaft / Management ► Planung / Organisation
ISBN-10	1-138-50416-5 / 1138504165
ISBN-13	978-1-138-50416-5 / 9781138504165
Zustand	Neuware