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Record Nr.

UNINA9911031667303321

Autore

Kühl Stefan

Titolo

Developing Mission Statements : A Very Brief Introduction / / by Stefan Kühl

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cham : , : Springer Nature Switzerland : , : Imprint : Springer, , 2025

ISBN

3-032-05026-X

Edizione

[1st ed. 2025.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (56 pages)

Collana

Social Sciences Series

Disciplina

302.35

305.9

Soggetti

Organizational sociology

Occupations - Sociological aspects

Economics - Sociological aspects

Industrial organization

Strategic planning

Leadership

Sociology of Organizations and Occupations

Economic Sociology

Organization

Business Strategy and Leadership

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di contenuto

Chapter 1. What Are Mission Statements?—Introduction -- Chapter 2. Beyond the Cascade Model of Organizations -- Chapter 3. Developing Mission Statements outside of an Understanding of Organizations as Machines -- Chapter 4. The Relevance of the Mission Statement Process and Cultivating the Final Product—Conclusion.

Sommario/riassunto

Companies are no longer the only organizations thatdevelop mission statements; administrations, hospitals,universities, schools and associations are following. After a phase of euphoria in which true miracles wereexpected, mission statements have come underincreasing critique for their moralizing overtones. Byapplying new approaches from organizational research,this book shows how thedevelopment and disseminationof missionstatements can be arranged in sucha way that



two seemingly contradicting goals areachieved. On the one hand the management of theorganization’s “display side” to the outside world canbe supported, on the other hand new room can becreated for the analysis of the unavoidable structuralconflicts that emerge in organizations. Stefan Kühl is professor of sociology at the University of Bielefeld in Germany and works as a consultant for Metaplan, a consulting firm based in Princeton, Hamburg, Shanghai, Singapore, Versailles and Zurich.