Gossip, Organization and Work: A Research Overview
Waddington, K. 2022. Gossip, Organization and Work: A Research Overview. Abingdon and New York Routledge.
Waddington, K. 2022. Gossip, Organization and Work: A Research Overview. Abingdon and New York Routledge.
| Title | Gossip, Organization and Work: A Research Overview |
|---|---|
| Authors | Waddington, K. |
| Abstract | The inter-related concepts of gossip, organization and work in the 21st-century represent an important idea whose time has come. This book sketches the interdisciplinary nature and history of gossip as a backdrop to and context for the next generation of researchers. It is necessary and important to think about gossip and organizations, not gossip in organizations, and reject the out-dated metaphor of ‘organization-as-container’ inside which communication ‘happens’. The landscape of work is changing rapidly, for example in regard to the so called ‘gig economy’ – new business models produced by digital platforms – and the impact of the coronavirus pandemic. The changing idea of work, where it happens, and the longer-term consequences of what constitutes organization and organizations raise important issues about: (i) the relevance and value of pre-pandemic research; and (ii) the need for new approaches and paradigms to guide future research in the field. This includes a proposition – or provocation perhaps – that arts-based approaches to research and creative theorizing are another way to reveal and better understand the phenomenon and experience of gossip in the changing landscape of work and organization. |
| Keywords | Gossip, organizational communication. arts-based research |
| Year | 2022 |
| Publisher | Routledge |
| Publication dates | |
| Published | 30 Dec 2021 |
| Published in print | 2022 |
| Place of publication | Abingdon and New York |
| Edition | 1st |
| ISBN | 9780367653002 |
| 9780367652982 | |
| Digital Object Identifier (DOI) | https://doi.org/10.4324/9780367652982 |