Understanding Corporate Life

Understanding Corporate Life offers a distinctive analysis of the concerns and practices of today's corporate organizations. In an age in which they appear more important and influential than ever, this book explores many of the often neglected aspects of corporate organization and its management. Drawing on theoretical and empirical resources, it considers the ways in which corporate priorities are increasingly influencing our experiences of everyday categories such as speed, time and space. In doing so, it reflects on the implications of this for not only how we currently work but also for how we might live on a day-to-day basis.

Understanding Corporate Life moves beyond traditional textbooks and invites a more eclectic and indeed iconoclastic study of organizations and the world they both inhabit, and increasingly create.

Each chapter is written by a leading scholar in the field of organization studies who supports the reader with an introduction and summary, review of the relevant literature and research, and a critique of how the theme under discussion fits into the bigger picture presented by the book.

Understanding Corporate Life will be of interest to students and researchers in the areas of organization studies, organizational behaviour and HRM, as well as sociology, social psychology, social theory, leisure studies and media and cultural studies.