Communication, Power and Organization

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Walter de Gruyter, Mar 12, 2013 - Social Science - 237 pages
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Contents

1 Introduction
1
11 Aims and frames of reference
2
12 On multiple interpretations
13
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
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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
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24 A short description of the Multi Group
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25 The information meeting
45
26 A commentary on method
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27 Comments on the meeting
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3 The meeting as a cultureconstitutive process
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32 The information meeting in a criticalcultural perspective
72
a Foucaultinspired interpretation
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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
References
209
Author Index
223
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