The Conversational Firm
Rethinking Bureaucracy in the Age of Social Media
by Catherine J. Turco
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Pub Date Sep 06 2016 | Archive Date Nov 15 2016
Description
A fast-growing social media marketing company, TechCo encourages all of its employees to speak up. By promoting open dialogue across the corporate hierarchy, the firm has fostered a uniquely engaged workforce and an enviable capacity for change. Yet the path hasn't always been easy. TechCo has confronted a number of challenges, and its experience reveals the essential elements of bureaucracy that remain even when a firm sets out to discard them. Through it all, TechCo serves as a powerful new model for how firms can navigate today's rapidly changing technological and cultural climate.
Catherine J. Turco was embedded within TechCo for ten months. The Conversational Firm is her ethnographic analysis of what worked at the company and what didn't. She offers multiple lessons for anyone curious about the effect of social media on the corporate environment and adds depth to debates over the new generation of employees reared on social media: Millennials who are carrying their technological habits and expectations into the workplace.
Marshaling insights from cultural and economic sociology, organizational theory, economics, technology studies, and anthropology, The Conversational Firm offers a nuanced analysis of corporate communication, control, and culture in the social media age.
A Note From the Publisher
Part of the series The Middle Range
edited by Peter S. Bearman and Shamus R. Khan
Advance Praise
"In The Conversational Firm, Catherine Turco argues that organizations can transcend bureaucracy, but still they are held in check by certain workplace demands for reproduction and stability. These checks seem to prevent the organization from becoming complete anarchy. But perhaps just important, The Conversational Firm is a rich and delightful organizational ethnography of how work is being transformed in the era of social media."
-Brayden King, Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University
Available Editions
| EDITION | Hardcover |
| ISBN | 9780231178983 |
| PRICE | $35.00 (USD) |
