The Reforming Organization: Making Sense of Administrative Change

ISBN-13: 9780815369516 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 222 str.

Nils Brunsson; Johan P. Olsen

Opis

Originally published in 1993. The central concern of this study is to analyze the reforming process within organizations and assess its impact. This title questions the relationship between the changes that can be seen occurring in organizations all the time and these conscious internal attempts at reform.

Spis treści

Preface;  1. Organizational Forms: Can We Choose Them?  2. Reforming Institutionalized Organizations  3. Reform as Routine  4. The Modernization Imperative  5. Organizational Individuality and Rationality as Reform Content  6. The Reform Principle, Realities and Mediating Concepts  7. Implementing Reforms  8. Implementation and Institutional Identity  9. Success at the Expense of Control  10. The Implicit Effects of Reform  11. Reform as a Learning Process  12. Reform and Power;  References;  Index

O autorze

Nils Brunsson, Johan P. Olsen