This book treats seriously one of the fundamental trends characterizing contemporary institutions--namely, the inability to establish a ground from which purpose and direction can be defined. It questions the core trope of "permanent change" and exposes its emptiness in a thorough and considered...

The different discourses that pervade the stories of founders and owner-managers when talking about organizational emergence are explored, along with the ways in which these understandings, meanings, and concepts are socially constructed to envision, enact, and realize organizational emergence....