"It is simply too much" is a common complaint of the modern age. This book looks at how people and institutions deal with overflow - of information, consumption or choices. The essays explore the ways in which notions of overflow - framed in terms of excess and abundance or their implicit opposites,[...]

Barbara Czarniawska is one of the most original of contemporary writers on organizations. Sceptical of scientific claims and explanations of the social world, she advocates an approach that draws on narrative, literary theory, cultural studies, and anthropology, rather than positivist social science[...]

Investigating the intricacy of the organization, this work argues that it is necessary to gather local information about organizational life and subject it to abstract and metaphorical interpretation. Using a narrative approach, the author employs literary devices to uncover the workings of organiza[...]

"Narratives in Social Science Research" introduces students to the use of narrative methodology as a research tool. It offers a useful and rigorous framework for the application of these devices within qualitative research. This practically-orientated text provides: an historical overview of the dev[...]

This clear, straightforward textbook embraces the practical reality of actually doing fieldwork. It tackles the common problems faced by new researchers head on, offering sensible advice and instructive case studies from the author's own experience. Barbara Czarniawaska takes us on a master class th[...]

Barbara Czarniawska, renowned theorist and author, illustrates how organization theory has changed over the past decade, shifting focus from structures to processes, from organizations to organizing. In this book, she offers a processual view of organizing as it has emerged, and develops a theory ba[...]

"Global ideas is an attempt to explain how it is possible that, although the same idea travels around the globe at a high speed, local realities are still very different. While this book can be seen as joining the discussion on globalization and its parad[...]

De gammeltestamentlige Pseudepigrafer genudgives her af Det Danske Bibelselskab. Der er tale om et genoptryk af en udgave, der udkom løbende i perioden 1953-76. I forbindelse med genudgivelsen har de to anerkendte gammeltestamentlige forskere, prof. Benedikt Otzen og lektor Bodil Ejrnæs, ajourfør[...]

Vad innebär det att arbeta med en avhandling? Varför blir detta arbete en sådan viktig del av identiteten? Hur resonerar handledare? När och för vem blir avhandlingen ett livsverk?

I boken reflekterar ett antal aktiva forskare över avhandlingsskrivande, inträdet i forskarkollektiv[...]

How is it possible that, although the same idea travels around the globe at a high speed, local realities are still very different? This book shows what is travelling and how it moves between countries and disciplines.

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Vårt samhälle kännetecknas av överflöd. Inte minst har vi ett informationsöverflöd - och många söker efter recept på hur detta kan hanteras. I den här boken fokuseras texten på nyhetsbyråers strategier för hanteringen av överflöd.

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