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Soft constraint : liberal organizations and domination / David Courpasson.
Lippincott Library HD33 .C66513 2006
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Courpasson, David.
- Series:
- Advances in organization studies 1566-1075 ; v. 15.
- Advances in organization studies, 1566-1075 ; v. 15
- Standardized Title:
- Action contrainte: organisations libérales et domination. English
- Language:
- English
- French
- Subjects (All):
- Organizational sociology.
- Industrial management.
- Power (Social sciences).
- Leadership.
- Physical Description:
- 242 pages ; 25 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Malmö : Liber ; Copenhagen : Copenhagen Business School Press, 2006.
- Language Note:
- Translated from the French.
- Summary:
- The post-modernist and post-bureaucratic turn in Organization Studies has contributed to shape a landscape that same seminal thinkers would probably not recognize: empowerment, autonomy and agency, entrepreneurial systems of management, decentralization, cooperation... In short, the demise of bureaucracy is viewed as the unassailable consequence of contemporary political and business dynamics. And if power is not a figure of the past, at least its classical forms and dynamics should be entirely rethought. This book seeks to understand precisely how current organizations are governed, based on the analysis of three managerial reforms: the implementation of marketing practices in the banking sector, project management, and the management of competences in the field of HRM; and it grapples with the issue of power distribution and political regimes of organizations in turbulent times.
- Contents:
- Defence of bureaucracy
- The rejection of determinism
- Rehabilitation of the idea of domination
- Domination as a political dynamic
- The modernisation of banks and individual experiences: a centralised policy for the evolution of commercial professions
- Competency and project: management through soft constraint
- Risk, community, tools: the liberal organisation revisited
- The political regimes of the organisation.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references.
- ISBN:
- 9147702060
- 8763001632
- OCLC:
- 69105519
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