Gibson Burrell

Styles of Organizing: The Will to Form

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Produktbeschreibung

The book is a provocative and challenging approach to the study of organizations by one of the UK's leading organization theorists, who uses various ideas and metaphors from economics, architecture, and design to move beyond the two-dimensionality of much organizational thinking to present more complex 3-D models.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Sydney University Press
• Seitenzahl: 270
• Erscheinungstermin: 24. Juli 2013
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 241mm x 161mm x 27mm
• Gewicht: 599g
• ISBN-13: 9780199671625
• ISBN-10: 0199671621
• Artikelnr.: 37050036

Autorenporträt

Gibson Burrell is Professor of Organization Theory at Leicester and was Head of the School of Management from 2002-7. He was elected an Academician for the Social Sciences (AcSS) in 2005. Previously at the Universities of Essex, Warwick, and Lancaster, in each of which he undertook a number of administrative roles, he now teaches critical management perspectives at undergraduate and postgraduate levels. He has been a Visiting Fellow or Visiting Professor at Universities in Australia, Poland, Sweden, the UK and the USA. His Sociological Paradigms and Organizational Analysis has been a seminal text for organization studies students for three decades.

Inhaltsangabe

1: Introduction
2: The Terror of Nothingness and the Rise of Representations
3: The Styling of Styles
4: Geometry in the Organization of Style
5: The Design Envelope
6: Three Dimensions, Eight Points, and Six Planes
7: Lines of Fight in the Built Environment
8: Lines of Fight in Organizing
9: Points of Difference in Aesthetics (and Politics)
10: Points of Difference in Organizing Ourselves
11: Planes of Agreement in Architecture
12: Planes of Agreement in Organization Theory
13: Conclusions: The Face of the Other