Bureaucracy: A Key Idea for Business and Society

ISBN-13: 9781138483309 / Angielski / Twarda / 2020 / 178 str.

Tom Vine

Opis

 In this book, Tom Vine observes, analyses and critiques the concept, placing it at the heart of our understanding of organisation.The book develops more effective ways to interact with bureaucracy in theory and practice.

Spis treści

Chapter 1: (Re-)introducing bureaucracy. PART I: BUREAUCRACY: RAVE, RANT, REPEAT.  Chapter 2: Bureaucracy, post-bureaucracy and identity crisis.  Chapter 3: Beyond post-bureaucracy: a brave new organizational geography? .  PART II: UNDERSTANDING BUREAU-PHOBIA.  Chapter 4: Understanding bureau-phobia part I: pathological bureaucracy. Chapter 5: Understanding bureau-phobia part II: dystopian bureaucracy.  PART III: TOWARDS A NEW EDUCATION IN BUREAUCRACY.  Chapter 6: A bureaucratic biography.  Chapter 7: Working with bureaucracy.  Chapter 8: Concluding thoughts

O autorze

Tom Vine completed his first two degrees at Warwick Business School beforemoving to Essex Business School for his doctorate. He is currently Associate Professor at Suffolk Business School, where he leads the PhD programme. An ethnographer and organization theorist, Tom's research explores agency, belief, complexity, and paradox. When he's not grappling with Nietzsche, Tom enjoys charity-shop crawls and restoring old boats.