Imagining Organizations

Performative Imagery in Business and Beyond

By: Paolo Quattrone (Editor), Nigel Thrift (Editor), Chris Mclean (Editor)

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Hardcover | 12 August 2011 | Edition Number 1

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276 Pages

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The modern business relies extensively upon myriad images and pictorial representations such as budgets, schedules, reports, graphs, and organizational charts. Visual images play such an integral role in the process of organizing that many modern managers have come to take them for granted. This book provides a new disciplinary space in which to experiment and capture the significant role that images and other forms of engagements play in the performance of the organizational activities that make business possible.

Images are often seen as simple representations of what happens in organisations: thus financial reports are believed to enable readers to see the a true and fair viewa (TM) of a firma (TM)s financial transactions. Contributions to this volume challenge this orthodox view to explore how images in business, organizing and organizations are "performative" rather than simply representational, viewed in a static and rigid form. Imagining Business addresses the question of how we visualise organizations and their activities as an important aspect of managerial work, focusing on practices and performances, organizing and ordering, and media and technologies. Moreover, it aims to provide a focal point for the growing collection of studies that explore how various business artefacts draw on the power of the visual to enable various forms of organizing and organizations in diverse contexts.

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