Reform as routine : organizational change and stability in the modern world / Nils Brunsson.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Brunsson, Nils, 1946-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Organizational change.

Management.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (178 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2009.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Large contemporary organizations seem to be in an almost continual state of change. Whether in public or private organizations, managers are trying to implement new organizational forms, introduce new procedures or systems, or change the attitudes of employees. Such reforms often yield disappointing results, and so new reforms are deemed necessary.In this book, Nils Brunsson considers why reform takes place. He looks at why reforms occur when they do, why they propagate certain ideas to the exclusion of others, and what their consequences are. He emphasizes the role of social institutions, fas

Contents:

Contents; Preface; Acknowledgements; 1. The Reforming Organization; 2. Beliefs Creating Reform: The Case of Markets and Organizations; 3. Constructing Organizations: The Example of Public Sector Reform; 4. Politicization and 'Company-ization' - On Institutional Affiliation and Confusion in the Organizational World; 5. Organizational Reforms as Routines; 6. The Standardization of Organizational Forms as a Cropping-up Process; 7. Reform and Power; 8. The Hopeful Organization; References; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0-19-186019-0

1-282-33654-1

9786612336546

0-19-157038-9

OCLC:

646862494