Organizing & Organizations

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Organizing and Organizations is well loved by students and lecturers for its accessible, conversational tone and insightful real-life examples introducing the study of organizations and organizational behaviour. Fineman, Gabriel and Sims, eminent academics in the field, cover a wealth of key concepts, research and literature leaving students informed and engaged.

The Fourth Edition builds on the strengths of previous editions, to provide you with a textbook that continues to stand out from the rest. This new edition has been fully developed to include:

- New chapters on Influence and Power, and Innovation and Change.

- A new section within each chapter that highlights the theoretical links informing the chapters.

- New review questions to test and apply your understanding of the ideas in each chapter.

- New 'reading on' sections that direct you to free links to highly recommended journal articles relating to each chapter's coverage, and found on the companion website.

- New critical review questions at the end of each chapter to encourage debate.

- Each chapter is now enlivened with pictorial illustrations.

- A fully updated glossary of key concepts in the study of organizations

Organizing and Organizations integrates a strong critical approach throughout.

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Fineman, Stephen
Stephen Fineman is Professor of Organizational Behaviour, School of Management, University of Bath</p><p>CONTRIBUTORS' AFFILIATIONS OUTSIDE NORTH AMERICA:</p><p></p><p>Gillian Bendelow <i>University of Warwick</p><p></i>Karen P Harlos <i>University of Otago, Dunedin</p><p></i>Avraham N Kluger <i>The Hebrew University of Jerusalem</p><p></i>Berry Mayall <i>University of London</p><p></i>Anat Rafaeli<i> Faculty of Industrial Engineering and Management, Technion, Haifa</p><p></i>Varda Wasserman <i>The Hebrew University of Jerusalem Gabriel, Yiannis<p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><a name="OLE_LINK1"><strong>Yiannis Gabriel</strong> is Professor of Organizational Theory at Bath University. Yiannis has a degree in Mechanical Engineering from Imperial College London and a PhD in Sociology from the University of California, Berkeley. </a></p><p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"> </p><p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;">Yiannis is well known for his work into organizational storytelling and narratives, leadership, management learning and the culture and politics of contemporary consumption. He has used stories as a way of studying numerous social and organizational phenomena including leader-follower relations, group dynamics and fantasies, nostalgia, insults and apologies. He has also carried out extensive research on the psychoanalysis of organizations. </p><p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"> </p><p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;">Yiannis is founder and coordinator of the Organizational Storytelling Seminar series, now in its fourteenth year (See <a href="http://www.organizational-storytelling.org.uk/">http://www.organizational-storytelling.org.uk/</a>), the author of nine books and numerous articles. He is elected to the board of EGOS and is currently Senior Editor of Organization Studies. His enduring fascination as a researcher lies in what he describes as the unmanageable qualities of life in and out of organizations.</p>

`An excellent introductory text .... it provides a concise and well-written coverage of the main concepts in organizational behaviour. The combination of case studies and discussion of theoretical issues is well structured and provides the reader with a good framework for further reading' - Leadership and Organization Development