NEW BOOK: The Management of Meaning in Organizations
It has taken millennia but of course finally someone not only found something meaningful in organizations but has set out to discuss the management of it! We pride ourselves on being high priests of the sacred order of research assessment, yet suffer from what Hugh Willmott has called rampant rankophilia. We are working hard to get rid of the bureaucratic pyramid and replace it with a flexible, ambidextrous, flat and networked organization – yet, our sensemaking processes are patterned after religions and ideologies. The most helpful GPS system to guide us in my opinion is our Euro-colleague Slawomir Magala's [Rotterdam School of Management] smagala@fbk.eur.nl new book "The Management of Meaning in Organizations" (Palgrave, 2009).
Cybercollegially,
Charles Wankel
St. John's University, New York