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Mats Alvesson is Professor of Business Administration at the University of Lund, Sweden. Research interests include critical theory, gender, power, management of professional service (knowledge intensive) organizations, organizational culture and symbolism, qualitative methods and philosophy of science.

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Frontmatter -- Preface -- Contents -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Information meeting about a new organization -- 3 The meeting as a culture-constitutive process -- The meeting as an expression of power and an occasion for discipline: a Foucault-inspired interpretation -- The information meeting as communicative distortion: a Habermas-inspired interpretation -- Summary and comments -- References -- Author index -- Backmatter