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Record Nr.

UNINA9910819886803321

Autore

Albrow Martin

Titolo

Do organizations have feelings? / / Martin Albrow

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York : , : Routledge, , 1997

ISBN

1-134-82064-X

1-134-82065-8

1-280-32064-8

0-203-42917-6

0-203-29543-9

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (199 p.)

Disciplina

302.35

658.4/08

Soggetti

Industrial management

Social responsibility of business

Social Science

Business

Social responsibility of business - Social aspects

Management

Business & Economics

Management Styles & Communication

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

First published 1996 by Routledge, London.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (pages ) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Book Cover; Title; Contents; Preface; Acknowledgements; INTRODUCTION: THE NECESSITY FOR THE SOCIOLOGY OF ORGANIZING; Objectivity and reflexivity; THE STUDY OF ORGANIZATIONS; OBJECTIVITY OR BIAS?; THE DIALECTIC OF SCIENCE AND VALUES IN THE STUDY OF ORGANIZATIONS; Reassessing Weber for current uses; THE APPLICATION OF THE WEBERIAN CONCEPT OF RATIONALIZATION TO CONTEMPORARY CONDITIONS; REDEFINING AUTHORITY FOR POST-WEBERIAN CONDITIONS; Feeling for new organization; SINE IRA ET STUDIO; OR DO ORGANIZATIONS HAVE FEELINGS?; REVISING ACCOUNTS OF ORGANIZATIONAL FEELING

Organizing returns from the socialSOCIOLOGY FOR POSTMODERN



ORGANIZERS; WORKING THE NET with; SOCIOLOGY FOR ORGANIZATION IN THE GLOBAL AGE; Notes; Bibliography; Index;

Sommario/riassunto

This book argues that adequate explanation of the way that organizations function for those engaged in business and those who study it must transcend the traditional divide between reason and emotion.