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Record Nr.

UNINA9910811027103321

Autore

Clegg Stewart

Titolo

Modern organizations : organization studies in the postmodern world / / Stewart R. Clegg

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London ; ; Thousand Oaks, CA, : Sage Publications, 1990

London ; ; Thousand Oaks, CA : , : Sage Publications, , 1990

ISBN

9786612262517

1-282-26251-3

1-84920-672-4

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource  (ix, 261 pages) : illustrations

Disciplina

302.3/5

302.35

658.1

Soggetti

Organization

Industrial organization

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 (p. [236]-253) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Cover; Contents; Acknowledgements; 1 - Theoretical Contrasts and International Contexts; 2 - Organizations and the Modernization of the World; 3 - Why and Where did Bureaucracy Triumph?; 4 - Ecologies, Institutions and Power in the Analysis of Organizations; 5 - French Bread, Italian Fashions and Asian Enterprise; 6 - Organizational Diversities and Rationalities; 7 - Modernist and Postmodernist Organization; 8 - Postmodern Skill and Capital Formation?; References; Index

Sommario/riassunto

`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