Managing organizational ecologies : space, management and organizations / / edited by Keith Alexander and Ilfryn Price

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910786743103321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: New York : , : Routledge, , 2012
• ISBN: 1-136-30259-X; 1-136-30260-3; 0-203-11723-9
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (509 p.)
• Collana: Routledge Studies in Innovation, Organization and Technology ; ; 22
• Altri autori (Persone): AlexanderKeith <1949->; PriceIlfryn <1949->
• Disciplina: 658.2
• Soggetti: Facility management - Environmental aspects; Work environment; Office layout; Building layout
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; List of Figures and Tables; Foreword; Acknowledgments; Introduction: Space, Management and Organizations; PART I Organizational Ecologies; 1 Organizational Ecologies andDeclared Realities; 2 Workplace Redesign to Support the 'Front End' of Innovation; 3 Managing Facilities for Human Capital Value; 4 Facilities in Popular Culture; 5 Facilitating Creative Environment; 6 Spatial Ecology: Learning and WorkingEnvironments that Change People and Organizations; PART II Social Constructs and Contradictions; 7 The Social Construction of FM Communities; 8 Philosophical Contradictions in FM9 The Usability of Facilities: Experiences and Effects; 10 Service-Centric Logic of FM; 11 Value Rhetoric and Cost Reality; 12 Ecologies in Existence: Boundaries, Relationships and Dominant Narratives; PART III Management Issues; 13 Co-Creation of Value in FM; 14 FM as a Social Enterprise; 15 Strategies for Communication; 16 Educational Implications of an FM Social Constructionist View; PART IV Applications in Practice; 17 Conversational Networks in Knowledge Offices; 18 Creating Effective ; Learning Environments: Meeting the Challenges; 19 Dense Networks and Managed Dialogue: The Impact on the Patient Environment20 Spaces and the Coevolution of Practices within a UK Metallurgical Equipment Supplier; Reflections; List of Contributors; Index
• Sommario/riassunto: The term Facilities Management has become global but fraught with confusion as to what the term signifies. For some, notably in the USA, Facilities Management remains a discipline of human ecology. Elsewhere the term has become conflated with an alternative meaning: providing or outsourcing the provision of various services essential to the operation of particular buildings. This volume redresses that imbalance to remind Facilities Management of its roots, presenting evidence of Facilities Management success stories that engage the wider objectives of the organizations they serve, and engag