
Managing Modernity
Beyond Bureaucracy?
$247.49
- Hardcover
326 pages
- Release Date
27 January 2011
Summary
Bureaucracy has long been a cornerstone of advanced industrial societies, and a defining feature of modernity. At the same time, many commentators from all quarters argue that it is on the wane in this post-this or that world; or that if it isn’t, it should be dismantled to free up organizations, enterprise, and innovation.But do we live in a more or less bureaucratic world? Do contemporary forms and means of communication undermine or modifybureaucracy, or does technology create new ‘iron ca…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780199563647 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 0199563640 |
| Author: | Stewart R. Clegg, Martin Harris, Harro Höpfl |
| Publisher: | Oxford University Press |
| Imprint: | Oxford University Press |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 326 |
| Release Date: | 27 January 2011 |
| Weight: | 650g |
| Dimensions: | 240mm x 171mm x 31mm |
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Critics Review
This thought provoking volume successfully emplaces important empirical developments in major UK public services settings in a wider organizational and theoretical perspective.
This thought provoking volume successfully emplaces important empirical developments in major UK public services settings in a wider organizational and theoretical perspective. * Ewan Ferlie, Public Administration *
About The Author
Stewart R. Clegg
Stewart Clegg is Research Professor and Director of the Centre for Management and Organization Studies Research at the University of Technology, Sydney and he is also a Visiting Professor at Copenhagen Business School and EM-Lyon. A prolific publisher in leading academic journals in social science, management and organization theory, he is also the author and editor of many books, including the following Sage volumes: Handbook of Power (with Mark Haugaard2009), Handbook of Macro-Organization Behaviour (with Cary Cooper 2009), and Handbook of Organization Studies (with Cynthia Hardy, Walter Nord and Tom Lawrence, 2006). Dr Martin Harris is a Senior Lecturer atthe Essex University Business School. He has edited (with Ian McLoughlin) Innovation, Organization Change and Technology and published in leading journals such as the Journal of Management Studies, Human Relations, and the Journal of Information Technology. Martin’s current research is centred on digital technology, ‘post-bureaucracy’ and ‘the politics of forgetting’ in UK public institutions such as the BBC, the British Library and the NHS. Dr Harro Höpfl is Reader at the Essex Business School, and was formerly Senior Lecturer in Politics at Lancaster University; he is also Visiting Professor at the Pedagogical University, Krakow. He has published extensively (individually authored books, contributions to edited volumes and to standard reference works, and articles in leading journals). He is particularly interested in the history of political thought, especially reason of state, Machiavellianism, and the political andorganizational thought of the Jesuits and Calvinists, and on concepts of authority, power and legitimacy, corporate and political accountability, and the theory of bureaucracy and post-bureaucracy.
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