Anderson / Sharrock Action at a Distance

Studies in the Practicalities of Executive Management
1. Auflage 2018
ISBN: 978-1-351-38149-9
Verlag: Taylor & Francis
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 194 Seiten

Reihe: Philosophy and Method in the Social Sciences

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 situationswhere 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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Anderson, R.J.

Sharrock, W.W.

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Figures
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

Über Autor(innen)

BobAnderson 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.
WesSharrock is Professor in the Department of Sociology at Manchester University, UK.