Full Description
What does a stockbroker in Istanbul navigating the rush of incoming trading figures have in common with a mother in Stockholm trying to organize a growing pile of baby clothes? They are both coping with excess or overflow. This book explores the ways in which institutions, corporations and individuals define and manage situations of 'too much' - too much information, too many choices, too many commodities or too many tasks.
By analyzing a wide range of settings - from corporate firms and public administration to everyday domestic routines - the book offers an in-depth understanding of the complexities of overflow phenomena. It questions when, where and why overflow emerges and for whom this is a problem or a blessing.
This broad introduction to a striking contemporary phenomenon will prove an enlightening read for a wide-ranging audience including academics and researchers in the disciplines of business and management, political science, economic history and sociology.
Contributors: H. Brembeck, F. Cochoy, H. Corvellec, B. Czarniawska, M. Czubaj, P. Donatella, K.M. Ekström, S. Fellman, O. Löfgren, L. Norén, M. Pantzar, A. Popp, E. Raviola, R. Solli, E. Tarim, J. Wentzer, R. Willim
Contents
Contents:
1. Changing Perspectives on the Management of Overflow
Orvar Löfgren and Barbara Czarniawska
2. 'What are we to do with our New Affluence?': Anticipating, Framing and Managing the Putative Plenty of Post-war Finland
Mika Pantzar
3. Potlatch à la Polonaise or Consumption Cultures in Times of Transformation
Mariusz Czubaj
4. Help! We Have Too Much Money!
Barbara Czarniawska, Pierre Donatella and Rolf Solli
5. Management of and by Overflow: The Example of Primary Healthcare
Lars Norén
6. Taking Michel Callon to the Istanbul Stock Exchange: Frames, Overflows and Storytelling
Emre Tarim
7. Cloud Control: The Capture and Escape of Music as Information
Jakob Wentzer
8. Transmutations of Noise
Robert Willim
9.Creators Meet Companies: Hundred Offices and the Opening of Frames
Elena Raviola
10. Recycling Food Waste into Biogas, or How Management Transforms Overflows into Flows
Hervé Corvellec
11. The Discovery of Relations to Artefacts in the Boundless Process of Moving
Karin Ekström
12. Managing Inflows, Throughflows and Outflows: Mothers Navigating the Baby Stuff Scape
Helene Brembeck
13. Lost in the Archive: The Business Historian in Distress
Susanna Fellman and Andrew Popp
14. Selective Knowledge: Learning How to Forget and Ignore
Orvar Löfgren
15. Afterword: Overflows as Boundary Events between Organizations and Markets
Franck Cochoy
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