Managing modernity: the end of bureaucracy?

Managing Modernity: The End of 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, and information systems. INDICE: Introduction; Martin Harris, Stewart Clegg, and Harro Höpfl: Managing Modernity: Beyond Bureaucracy?; 1: Paul du Gay: 'Without Regard to Persons': Problems of Involvement and Attachment in 'Post-bureaucratic' Public Management; 2: Harro Höpfl: Bureaucratic and Post-bureaucratic Accountability in Britain: Some Sceptical Reflections; 3: David A. Buchanan and Louise Fitzgerald: New Lock, New Stock, New Barrel, Same Gun: the Accessorized Bureaucracy of Healthcare; 4: Ewen Speed: Applying Soft Bureaucracy to Rhetorics of Choice: UK NHS 1983-2007; 5: Martin Harris: Network Governance and the Politics of Organizational Resistance in UK Healthcare: the National Programme for InformationTechnology; 6: Jannis Kallinikos: Bureaucracy Under Siege: On Information, Collaboration and Networks; 7: Mats Alvesson and Dan Kärreman: 'Meritocracy' versus 'Sociocracy': Personnel Concepts and HR Themes in Two IT/Management Consulting Firms; 8: Stephen Ackroyd: Post-Bureaucratic Manufacturing? A Consideration of the Post-War Organization of Large British Firms; 9: Stewart Clegg: Under Reconstruction: Modern Bureaucracies; 10: Mike Reed: The Post-Bureaucratic Organization and the Control Revolution; 11: Hugh Willmott: The Futures of Bureaucracy?

• ISBN: 978-0-19-956364-7
• Editorial: Oxford University
• Encuadernacion: Cartoné
• Páginas: 328
• Fecha Publicación: 27/01/2011
• Nº Volúmenes: 1
• Idioma: Inglés