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Contents
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13 On knowledgeconstitutive ideals | 18 |
14 Plan of the book | 25 |
2 Information meeting about a new organization | 27 |
22 The advantages and disadvantages of a situational focus | 32 |
23 On this study | 37 |
41 Foucaults concept of power | 96 |
42 Critique of Foucault | 104 |
43 The information meeting and the activation of power techniques | 113 |
a Habermasinspired interpretation | 137 |
51 Habermass theory of communicative action | 138 |
52 The information meeting in terms of communicative rationality | 152 |
6 Summary and comments | 173 |
62 Comparison of approaches | 176 |
24 A short description of the Multi Group | 42 |
25 The information meeting | 45 |
26 A commentary on method | 54 |
27 Comments on the meeting | 57 |
3 The meeting as a cultureconstitutive process | 61 |
32 The information meeting in a criticalcultural perspective | 72 |
a Foucaultinspired interpretation | 95 |
63 Commentary on countervailing power | 187 |
64 Some less critical views on the information meeting | 197 |
65 On the methodology of multiple interpretations of situations | 200 |
66 Conclusion | 207 |
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actors Alvesson ambiguity approach aspects asymmetrical asymmetrical relations attitudes audience behaviour claims Clegg communicative action concept consensus context corporate Critical Theory critique crucial culture theory decentralization Deetz discourse discussion distortions domination effects elements emancipatory emphasized empirical material employees event example expression focus focused forms Foucauldian Frankfurt School functionalist Habermas's Habermasian hierarchy ideal ideal speech situation ideas identity ideology important individual information meeting instrumental rationality interaction interest interview involved knowledge less lifeworld managerial Martin means motivation multiple interpretations normal norms organization studies organization theory organizational culture participants particular perhaps perspective phenomena position possible postmodernism postmodernists poststructuralists power relations power-knowledge practices present problem processes production question rationality reality regarded reinforced relationships relevant reorganization resistance responsibility sense simply social relations social situations specific statements strategic management strategy structure subordinates symbolic theoretical top management truth understanding values various Willmott