Introduction -- A brief organizational history of Christmas -- The buying and selling of a season -- The magical atmospherics of Christmastide -- Working at Christmas -- Here comes Santa Claus -- Home and the gendered organization of Christmas -- Organizing Christmas : the wrapping up.

Work, Postmodernism and Organization provides a wide-ranging and very accessible introduction to postmodern theory and its relevance for the cultural world of the work organization. The book provides a critical review of the debates that have shaped organization theory over the past decade,...

The rise of modern corporations has been accompanied by an expansion of salaried executives who have replaced owner-managers. With this expansion, the new class of managers/executives came to regard themselves as stewards of large and complex corporations, and not principally or exclusively as...