ISBN:
0803983298
,
0803983301
,
9780803983298
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (ix, 261 p)
,
ill
Edition:
Online-Ausg. 2009 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
Parallel Title:
Print version Modern Organizations : Organization Studies in the Postmodern World
DDC:
302.3/5
Keywords:
Industrial organization
;
Organization
;
Einführung
Abstract:
This wide-ranging analysis both explores current approaches to organization studies and relates the concepts of modernity and postmodernity to the realities of organizational structure and context. In surveying alternative perspectives on organizations in terms of ideal types, systems, contingencies, ecologies, cultures, markets and efficiency, Clegg demonstrates that no single approach is adequate to deal with the real-world variety of organizations that exist. Drawing upon unusual and revealing examples - the production of French bread, Italian fashion and `post-Confucian' Asian enterprises
Description / Table of Contents:
Cover; Contents; Acknowledgements; 1 - Theoretical Contrasts and International Contexts; 2 - Organizations and the Modernization of the World; 3 - Why and Where did Bureaucracy Triumph?; 4 - Ecologies, Institutions and Power in the Analysis of Organizations; 5 - French Bread, Italian Fashions and Asian Enterprise ; 6 - Organizational Diversities and Rationalities; 7 - Modernist and Postmodernist Organization; 8 - Postmodern Skill and Capital Formation?; References; Index
Note:
Includes bibliographical references (p. [236]-253) and index
,
Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
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