LEADER 04973nam 22006615 450 001 9910495168503321 005 20251202151125.0 010 $a9783030739942 010 $a3030739945 024 7 $a10.1007/978-3-030-73994-2 035 $a(CKB)4100000011994643 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC6688959 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL6688959 035 $a(DE-He213)978-3-030-73994-2 035 $a(EXLCZ)994100000011994643 100 $a20210730d2021 u| 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 14$aThe Agile Imperative $eTeams, Organizations and Society under Reconstruction? /$fedited by Sabine Pfeiffer, Manuel Nicklich, Stefan Sauer 205 $a1st ed. 2021. 210 1$aCham :$cSpringer International Publishing :$cImprint: Palgrave Macmillan,$d2021. 215 $a1 online resource (264 pages) 225 1 $aDynamics of Virtual Work,$x2947-9304 311 08$a9783030739935 311 08$a3030739937 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aPart 1. Multi-level-perspectives on agility as a new principle of organizing work -- 1.Agile Methods: Self-Management vs. The World, Robert Biddle -- 2.The Use of Software Tools in Agile Projects, Azuka Mordi -- 3. Antecedents and consequences of agility ? on the ongoing invocation of self-organization, Sabine Pfeiffer;,Manuel Nicklich, Stefan Sauer -- Part 2. The team-level as the base of agile work -- Part 3.Management and organizational level as the impulse of agile work -- 4. Reflexive Scaling, Stephanie Porschen-Hueck -- 5.Design Thinking as a Panacea? Towards a Symbiotic Understanding of Design Thinking and Organizational Culture, Gordon Müller-Seitz -- 6. Strategility ? A challenging alliance, Kerstin Pichel & Andrea Müller -- 7. Agile organizations in startup companies, the new way of manufacturing consent?, Flecher, Marion -- Part 4.Societal level as the frame of agile work -- 8.Traveling management ideas, lost and gained in translation: Agility in Japan, Takahiro Endo; Masatoshi Fujiwara; Yuki Tsuboyama -- Understanding agility: multi-level analysis of a Belgian subsidiary of a foreign bank, Olivier Jégou & Fyriel Souayah -- Designing work for Agility and Affect?s Measure, Phoebe Moore. . 330 $aIn an ever-changing working environment, customer and workplace demands have brought new challenges to how we organize and manage work. Increasingly, this is addressed by the idea of 'agility.' From its beginning, agile work has claimed to be a radically different approach which allows organisations to react flexibly to changing environmental demands whilst also offering a ?people' centered approach to management. While the literature often examines agile instruments from a business perspective, this edited collection advances the discussion of the efficacy of agile working, by applying a more critical social science perspective.The chapters scrutinize whether agility is just a discursive imperative, or an organizational and institutional reaction to better deal with complexity and volatility. The answers to these questions can vary at different levels, and the editors therefore examine agilityat the level of teams, organizations and societies. By assembling different perspectives on the sustainability and virtue of agile instruments, and bringing together international scholars and different disciplines, which bring in different - sometimes contrary and more or less controversial views - on agile work, the project stimulates a comparative discussion. Sabine Pfeiffer holds the Chair of Sociology, Nuremberg Campus of Technology, Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen- Nürnberg, Germany. Manuel Nicklich works at the Chair of Sociology, Nuremberg Campus of Technology, Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, Germany. Stefan Sauer works at the Chair of Sociology, Nuremberg Campus of Technology, Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen- Nürnberg, Germany. 410 0$aDynamics of Virtual Work,$x2947-9304 606 $aIndustrial sociology 606 $aOrganizational sociology 606 $aOccupations$xSociological aspects 606 $aManagement 606 $aSociology of Work 606 $aSociology of Organizations and Occupations 606 $aManagement 615 0$aIndustrial sociology. 615 0$aOrganizational sociology. 615 0$aOccupations$xSociological aspects. 615 0$aManagement. 615 14$aSociology of Work. 615 24$aSociology of Organizations and Occupations. 615 24$aManagement. 676 $a306.36 676 $a306.36 702 $aPfeiffer$b Sabine 702 $aNicklich$b Manuel 702 $aSauer$b Stefan 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910495168503321 996 $aThe agile imperative$92834292 997 $aUNINA