Reconstructing Organization

Damian P. O’Doherty is a senior lecturer of Organization Analysis at the Alliance Manchester Business School, University of Manchester, UK. He has published widely in management and organization studies, is the current Associate Editor of Organization and Director of the Alliance Manchester Business School Ethnography Centre.

1 An Introduction to Loungification.- 2 ‘MAG Men’: Access to the Corridors of Corporate Power.- 3 The Management of Escape: Scattered Attention and Disorderly Convulsion.- 4 Becoming Lounge: Angularity and Disjunctive Synthesis.- 5 ‘The Lounger’: Making and Re-assembling the Airport Customer.- 6 Extending Politics in Organization Studies: The Bob Cut and ‘Crinicultural’ Politics.- 7 Animals and Organization: Feline Politics and the Nine Lives of ‘Olly the Cat’.- 8 Conclusion: Reconstructing Organization.- 9 Postscript: Ethnography at a critical distance: a postscript to Loungification by Fabian Muniesa.