 The meeting landscape, its emergence and expansion. Chapter 3 in Why Meetings Matter, 2024, pp 26-46 from Edward Elgar Publishing Abstract: This chapter provides a background to the modern meeting society, with a specific focus upon meeting-intense, large organisations. Through empirical descriptions, we show how a specific ‘flora and fauna’ of meetings has emerged, what we call a ‘meeting landscape’ with a high density of meeting denominations and general orientations towards meetings when employees - especially managers - describe their work. Meetings also tend to become increasingly informalised, diplomatic, and consensual. The meeting denominations are often the instrumental ones, but the contemporary ‘meetingisation’ seems to imply the development of a complex negotiation organisation, where meetings lead to new meetings in a never-ending cycle. This negotiating organisation is shaped and populated by new, well-educated professionals in the service society. Even if there are more ‘meeting-thin’ environments, the chapter argues that the meeting is the most naturalised form of work for an increasing group of societal members. Keywords: Business and Management; Economics and Finance; Law - Academic; Politics and Public Policy (search for similar items in EconPapers) Downloads: (external link) Related works: Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:elg:eechap:21632_3 Ordering information: This item can be ordered from Access Statistics for this chapter More chapters in Chapters from Edward Elgar Publishing |
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