"Delivering A Bridge Between A Lived Experience Of Organising And The Textbooks On Organisational Theory".
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"Delivering A Bridge Between A Lived Experience Of Organising And The Textbooks On Organisational Theory" ORGANIZING & ORGANIZATIONS (2nd Edition) By Yiannis Gabriel, Stephen Fineman, & David Sims Thousand Oaks, London; Sage, 2000. 367pp. ISBN 0-7619-6280-8. This book is a second edition, of what was described as being a 'novel way' of looking at organisations. The main focus of this book is on 'organising the activities and processes of doing things in organisations', and this is achieved by 'highlighting the experiences of those people who know and understand organisations'. Therefore, the authors address the processes and activities that are present within organisations rather than discussing the organisation as one single entity. The layout of the book is rather unusual, in the sense that it does not read like a 'normal' textbook. Instead the reader is invited to 'move from section to section' in any order they wish, once they have read the...


