Modern Organizations: Organization Studies in the Postmodern World - Couverture souple

Clegg, Stewart R.

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0803983301 ISBN 13 : 9780803983304

Editeur : SAGE Publications Ltd, 1990

Synopsis

This wide-ranging analysis both explores current approaches to organization studies and relates the concepts of modernity and postmodernity to the realities of organizational structure and context. In surveying alternative perspectives on organizations in terms of ideal types, systems, contingencies, ecologies, cultures, markets and efficiency, Clegg demonstrates that no single approach is adequate to deal with the real-world variety of organizations that exist.

Drawing upon unusual and revealing examples - the production of French bread, Italian fashion and `post-Confucian' Asian enterprises - he argues that their success cannot be reduced to `culture' but must incorporate a fuller understanding of the ways in which organi

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Stewart Clegg is Professor at the University of Sydney in the School of Project Management and the John Grill Institute for Project Leadership and an Emeritus Professor of the University of Technology Sydney.

À propos de la quatrième de couverture

`The breadth of the discussion and depth of analysis would make this a most pertinent work for those interested in a number of areas - economics, international business, finance - as well as organisation studies specialists' - The Times Higher Education Supplement

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: SAGE Publications Ltd
• Date d'édition: 1990
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0803983301
• ISBN 13: 9780803983304
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 272
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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