Managing Modernity by Stewart R. Clegg - ISBN: 9780199563647
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Managing Modernity: Beyond Bureaucracy? offers theoretical perspectives and substantive insights on the future of bureaucracy in different organizational contexts. It includes contributions from internationally renowned scholars working in the fields of organization theory, public administration, an…

Managing Modernity

Beyond Bureaucracy?

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    326 pages

  • Release Date

    27 January 2011

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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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