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`This is an insightful book... offers an in-depth understanding of the dynamics at work within organizations, but also offers ways forward for new researchers. [A]n original contribution to the area of occupational psychology. The book is appropriate for people who...
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SAGE Publications Ltd
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2000-06-27
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In this provocative study, Paul du Gay makes a compelling case for the continuing importance of bureaucracy. Taking inspiration from the work of Max Weber, du Gay launches a staunch defence of `the bureaucratic ethos' and highlights its continuing relevance to the...
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SAGE Publications Ltd
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2000-06-14
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Organizational aesthetics, both as a body of theory and a method of inquiry, is a rapidly expanding area of the organizational sciences. The Aesthetics of Organization accessibly draws key contributions delineating the emerging parameters of the field. It explains the...
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SAGE Publications Ltd
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2000-04-19
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Issues around identity, agency and reflexivity are opened up and explored in a refreshing new perspective that deepens our understanding of organization and institutions. Body and Organization thorougly invigorates the study of process and brings the organization to...
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SAGE Publications Ltd
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2000-04-14
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Praise for the First Volume:
`This is a really important book for anyone who wants to find research references on equal opportunities for women in management' - Management in Education
`I commend this book to managers of both sexes in the public and private sectors....
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SAGE Publications Ltd
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2000-01-26
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The Reengineering Revolution reviews the significance of the Business Process Reengineering trend for management practice since the early 1990's.
Combining empirical and theoretical perspectives, David Knights and Hugh Willmott show how both term and practice shaped...
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SAGE Publications Ltd
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2000-01-26
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Organizational Culture and Identity discusses the literature concerned with culture in organizations and explains why the term has been invoked with such enthusiasm. Martin Parker presents further ways of thinking about organizations and culture which suggest that...
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SAGE Publications Ltd
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1999-11-24
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`The book is a good read. Gabriel has an engaging writing style, liberally interspersed with vignettes, cases, and quotes…. While the reader may not agree with some of what Gabriel is espousing, the author presents his material in a non-judgemental manner…. And who...
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SAGE Publications Ltd
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1999-08-31
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`The authors bring a spark of vitality and life to an area that could be cynically viewed as a series of conflicting fads and fashions....I would recommend anyone in the process of reviewing or designing an entrepreneurship development course to consider the benefits...
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SAGE Publications Ltd
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1999-08-30
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The Emergent Manager examines the process of becoming a manager within organizations and considers how people relate the ways in which they 'manage' their lives to their development as managers in the workplace.
At the heart of the book is the idea of the individual...
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SAGE Publications Ltd
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1999-07-21
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This book offers a radical reassessment of organizational forces for change and barriers encountered by the `challenging women' - senior women managers faced with the task of transforming their organizations. Much has been written about women at work, the `glass...
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SAGE Publications Ltd
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1999-06-29
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In response to the needs of lecturers, the acclaimed Handbook of Organization Studies has been made available as two major paperback textbooks.
In this, the first of a two-volume paperback edition of the landmark Handbook of Organization Studies, editors Stewart Clegg...
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SAGE Publications Ltd
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1999-04-29
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In Managing Organizations Stewart Clegg, Cynthia Hardy and Walter Nord explore the major issues and debates in management and organization. The textbook addresses key topics such as leadership, decision-making and innovation in organizations alongside such themes as...
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SAGE Publications Ltd
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1999-04-29
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`The introduction chaper by Mark Easterby-Smith and Luis Araujo introduces the reader to the unresolved issues with which the field is still grappling today.... All in all, this is an interesting and useful book for both researcher and manager alike. First, and perhaps...
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SAGE Publications Ltd
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1999-04-16
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This book shows how aesthetic understanding of organizations can extend our knowledge and sharpen our insights into many processes that shape organizational action.
Organizational life is pervaded by aesthetics, yet conventional organizational analysis has been...
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SAGE Publications Ltd
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1999-01-08
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Written by some of the leading international scholars in the field, this book presents the current state-of-the-art in knowledge management.
The book offers a strong response to the need for a body of scientific knowledge on the understanding, managing and measuring...
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SAGE Publications Ltd
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1998-12-04
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Refreshing and accessible, this new text guides student and practitioner alike through the maze of approaches to the way in which people interact in organizational life. By building their text around six topics central to those who manage in organizations: people;...
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SAGE Publications Ltd
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1998-11-06
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The representation of organizations and working life in the popular media signifies, but also helps shape, contemporary practice and institutions. Organization-Representation unravels the complex social relationship between organization and its representation, offering...
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SAGE Publications Ltd
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1998-02-10
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This volume draws together critical assessments of Michel Foucault's contribution to our understanding of the making and remaking of the modern organization.
The volume provides a valuable summary of Foucault's contribution to organization theory, which also challenges...
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SAGE Publications Ltd
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1997-12-12
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Using original data, Managers in the Making presents a thorough analysis of the processes by which managers are made in Britain and Japan. It provides a detailed comparative study of the careers, training, developmental experience and job demands of managers in eight...
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SAGE Publications Ltd
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1997-05-27
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