Books written by Yiannis Gabriel

  • Freud and Society

    Feud, Sigmund / Gesellschaft / Politik.

  • Organizing & Organizations

    Weber, M. (1981) 'Bureaucracy', in O. Grusky and G.A. Miller (eds), The Sociology of Organizations: Basic Studies. New York: Free Press. pp. 7–36. Weick, K.E. (1976) 'Educational organizations as loosely coupled systems', ...

  • The Unmanageable Consumer

    This edition of The Unmanageable Consumer continues to explore 10 different consumer models, and encourages analysis of contemporary consumerism.

  • Organizing & Organizations

    ... 357 McConnon, M. 129 McConnon, S. 129 McDonagh, P. 210, 393 McFarlin, D. 408 McGregor, D. 52, 60 McHugh, D. 57, 60 McIntyre, J. 394 McKinlay, A. 95, 370 McKinley, W. 389 McLean, A. 378 McNary, L.D. 130 McNulty, T. 369 Megginson, LG.

  • Organizing and Organizations

    Chung , K.H. and Megginson , L.C. ( 1981 ) Organizational Behaviour : Developing Managerial Skills . New York : Harper and Row . Ciborra , C. ( 2002 ) The Labyrinths of Information : Challenging the Wisdom of Systems .

  • Organizing & Organizations

    Salaman, G. (1981) Class and Corporation. London: Fontana. ... Schwartz, H.S. (1987) 'Anti-social actions of committed organizational participants: an existential psychoanalytic perspective', Organization Studies, 8 (4): 327–40.

  • Return to Meaning: A Social Science with Something to Say

    This book argues that we are currently witnessing not merely a decline in the quality of social science research, but the proliferation of meaningless research, of no value to society, and modest value to its authors - apart from securing ...

  • Storytelling in Organizations: Facts, Fictions, and Fantasies

    Drawing on extensive fieldwork of storytelling in five organizations, this book argues that stories open valuable windows into the emotional and symbolic lives of organizations.

  • Myths, Stories, and Organizations: Premodern Narratives for Our Times

    The texts that have inspired the authors of this collection differ-some are myths, some are stories, one is a children's tale. The origins of these texts differ, from the scriptural to the folkloric, from high art to oral tradition.

  • Myths, Stories, and Organizations: Premodern Narratives for our Times

    The texts that have inspired the authors of this collection differ - some are myths, some are stories, one is a children's tale. The origins of these texts differ, from the scriptural to the folkloric, from high art to oral tradition.

  • Organizations in Depth: The Psychoanalysis of Organizations

    Maybe Gabriel is foreshadowing some new directions in organizational theory and even new research methodology′ - Journal of Occupational and Organizational Psychology This book is a comprehensive and systematic examination of the insights ...

  • Organizing Words: A Critical Thesaurus for Social and Organization Studies

    The book aims to be a first port of call for students, researchers and scholars who wish to familiarize themselves with these key ideas and use them in their own work. The book is neither an encyclopaedia nor a dictionary, but a thesaurus.

  • Return to Meaning: A Social Science with Something to Say

    This is what we view as the rise of nonsense in academic research ... The book's second part offers a range of proposals aimed at restoring meaning at the heart of social science research .

  • Organizing and Organizations: An Introduction

    This major textbook in organizational behaviour does what most other textbooks in the field do not: it captures and conveys the `lived experience' of being and working in organizations while...

  • Organizing & Organizations: An Introduction

    The book will undoubtedly appeal to students who know little or nothing of life in organizations and who have no need to get to grips with the differences between the theoretical perspectives' - Management Learning This long awaited Second ...

  • Experiencing Organizations

    Throughout, commentaries by Stephen Fineman and Yiannis Gabriel highlight particular points of analysis and learning, while each chapter concludes with questions for discussion and a selected bibliography enabling further reading.