Reconstructing Organization The Loungification of Society
This unique book breaks original ground in management and organization studies by drawing on over 2½ years of ethnographic study in a major UK international airport group. Much has been written about the ‘McDonaldisation’ or ‘Disneyization’ of society, bu
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RECONSTRUCTING ORGANIZATION The Loungification of Society
With an afterword by Fabian Muniesa
Reconstructing Organization
Damian P. O’Doherty
Reconstructing Organization The Loungification of Society
Damian P. O’Doherty Alliance Manchester Business School University of Manchester Manchester, UK
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Acknowledgements
It is a little over 5 miles from my university office to Manchester airport, but in terms of travel this research not only required the navigation of what can be measured of distance and time but a fundamental change in how one experiences and understands the time, space, and organization of travel. After the work of Marc Augé (1995), it has become somewhat of a cliché to refer to airports as ‘non-places’, but if you choose – to all intents and purposes – to live in one for a year, as I did, then one might find help and guidance in the stoicism of Epictetus who wrote: ‘For you did not come into the world to select unusually fine places’, he writes in his Discourses, as reported by Arrian, ‘but to live and go about your business in the place where you were born and were enrolled as a citizen’ (1989: 2.23). It is certainly those who have been closest to me over the years to whom I owe the greatest gratitude for the completion of this book and for helping me t
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