Beyond Organizational Change: Structure, Discourse and Power in UK Financial Services

ISBN-13: 9780333526996 / Angielski / Twarda / 2000 / 309 str.

Glenn Morgan; Andrew Sturdy

Opis

In this distinctive and valuable contribution to understanding organisational change, different levels and types of analysis are drawn on and connected. This is achieved through an exploration of the conditions, processes and outcomes of change in the field of UK financial services.

Spis treści

PART ONE: INTRODUCTION The Social Approach to Organizational Change PART TWO: THE ORGANIZATIONAL FIELD OF UK FINANCIAL SERVICES Money, Financial Institutions and the Social Order National and International Money: Restructuring British Financial Institutions PART THREE: CHANGING DISCOURSES: PROCESS AND OUTCOMES Introducing Strategic Discourse Strategy Discourse and Financial Services: Enter the Management Consultants and IT Marketing Discourse: its Emergence and Contradictions Changing Work Experiences and Practices: from Black Coats to Service Smiles PART FOUR: THE EMERGING ORGANIZATIONAL FIELD Transformation and Change in Financial Services Conclusion References Index

O autorze

GLENN MORGAN is Senior Lecturer in Organisational Behaviour at Warwick Business School, University of Warwick. He has previously worked at Manchester Business School and Manchester School of Management, UMIST. He has written many articles on organisation theory and financial services for books, academic and policy journals, and his publications include Organisations in Society (1990, Macmillan), and Regulation and Deregulation in European Financial Services (1997, Macmillan; edited with David Knights)

ANDREW STURDY is Lecturer in Human Resource Management in the School of Management, University of Bath and an external examiner for the Chartered Institute of Bankers (UMIST). In the last fifteen years, his work has covered a range of issues in retail financial services in Europe and South-East Asia, including changing organisations, technologies, management ideas and consumption and employment patterns. This work has been published in a variety of books and journals. His current area of interest is the role of management consultants and the global diffusion of customer service ideas