In this innovative and insightful collection, an international selection of leading management scholars explore key topics in current organizational discourse, including networked organizations, control and ambiguity, technologies, work and responsibility, extending Bauman's liquid modernity to the "liquid organization".

Towards sociological compassion: An introduction 1. On adiaphoric organizations and adiaphoric organizational members 2. Liquid modernity, the Owl of Minerva, and technologies of the emotional self 3. Life in the liquid organization: Control and ambiguity in organizational experience 4. Consuming work: Aestheticization and the liquid employee 5. Liquid collaboration 6. Liquid university 7. On fluidity and flow in the networked space of human service organizations: Understanding liquidity and organized welfare praxis 8. Liquid times for the entrepreneurial identity non-profit organization 9. Transcending liquidity: Towards a new embeddedness 10. Liquid responsibility: Ambivalence and professional judgement in organizations 11. How to regain trust, if it is at all possible? 12. A paradoxical attempt to freeze liquid modernity by liquidity: The return of fate

Jerzy Kociatkiewicz is Senior Lecturer in Management at the University of Sheffield, UK

Monika Kostera is Professor and Chair in Management at the University of Warsaw, Poland