“Why meetings matter” argues that meetings are a crucial feature of modern organisations, demonstrating that, contrary to popular belief, meetings are what define, represent and maintain organisations. The book emphasises how negotiations, collaborations and power dynamics are performed during meetings, making meetings the most fundamental working map of organisational hierarchies.
– Our book is about what meetings do in an organisation, beyond an everyday and often instrumental understanding that in meetings specific decisions are made that lead to visible development. We argue that the organisation is realised, or made, through meetings. Meetings consolidate and legitimise both activities and collaborations and create continuity. With our book we want to show how this happens, in social interactions, in both physical and digital meetings, says Erika Andersson Cederholm.
