What is a meeting?

.

Chapter 2 in Why Meetings Matter, 2024, pp 12-25 from Edward Elgar Publishing

Abstract: In this brief chapter, various definitions of ‘the meeting’ are discussed. We define it as focused social interaction, and a temporally and spatially delimited activity that occurs once (but may be repeated in the same form on many occasions), with a limited number of participants. However, we also show limitations in this definition. The chapter also contains an empirical description of how certain groups try to resist the bureaucratic connotations of meetings by avoiding the term ‘meeting’ altogether, even if their activities must be conceived of as meetings.

Keywords: Business and Management; Economics and Finance; Law - Academic; Politics and Public Policy (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2024
References: Add references at CitEc
Citations:

Downloads: (external link)
https://www.elgaronline.com/doi/10.4337/9781803924649.00006 (application/pdf)
Our link check indicates that this URL is bad, the error code is: 503 Service Temporarily Unavailable

Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:elg:eechap:21632_2

Ordering information: This item can be ordered from
http://www.e-elgar.com

Access Statistics for this chapter

More chapters in Chapters from Edward Elgar Publishing
Bibliographic data for series maintained by Darrel McCalla ().