Editorial Reviews
Book Description
Edited by a collective of 10 academics at the University of Warwick Business School, this collection reprints some of the most important works within organization studies from the 1970s to the 1990s.
Outline of contents:
Volume 1, Modes of Management seeks to invert conventional approaches to managing.
Volume 2, Objectivity and Others focuses upon issues of epistemology.
Volume 3, Selves and Subjects investigates areas hidden from orthodox organization studies
Volume 4, Evil Empires? looks at the damaging effects of large organizations upon the lives of people.
Together, the collection contains some 80 articles, drawn from the social sciences generally as well as organization studies specifically.Selected contents:
1. S.A. Marglin What do bosses do? The origins and functions of hierarchy in capitalist production The Division of Labour: The Labour Process and Class Struggle in Modern Capitalism [1976]
2. K.W. Hoskin and R.H. Macve The Genesis of Accountability: The West Point Connections Accounting, Organizations and Society [1988]
3. R. Jackall The Social Structure of Mangerial Work Moral Mazes: The World of Corporate Managers [1988]
4. T.J. Watson Management: An Activity in Search of Itself In Search of Management: Culture, Chaos and Control in Managerial Work [1994]
5. C. Heckscher Changing the Rules White Collar Blues: Management Loyalties in an Age of Corporate Restructuring [1995]
6. M.B. Calas and L. Smircich Dangerous Liasons: The 'Feminine-in-Management' Meets 'Globalization' Business Horizons [1993]
Organizational Studies : Critical Perspectives on Business and Management, Four Volume Set (Critical Perspectives),Warwick Orgzl B,Routledge,0415215536,Business & Economics,Business / Economics / Finance,Business/Economics,Corporate Culture,Entrepreneurship,Management - General,Organizational Behavior,Organizational Behavior In Business,Organizational learning,Work environment,Organizational theory & behaviour,Reference / General,Social theory
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