The dominance of management [[electronic resource] ] : a participatory critique / / by Leonard Holmes

• Autore: Holmes Leonard
• Pubblicazione: Burlington, VT., : Ashgate, 2010
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (215 pages) : illustrations
• Disciplina: 302.3/5
• Soggetto topico: Management - Research - Great Britain; Management - England - London; Community development - England - London
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Management: the emergence of a dominating paradigm -- The nature of management -- Radical organization theory and research -- Management and the labour process -- Management and class analysis -- The capitalist state and management -- Popular planning in modern London: a context of disparities -- Processes of domination in the management of a job creation scheme -- Community initiative or state enterprise? -- Setting up Stonebridge -- Who managed the Charlton Training Centre? -- Attempting democratic organization: tensions and contradictions -- Beyond the dominance of management.
• Sommario/riassunto: Offers a controversial reanalysis of the rise and dominance of managerialist approaches to development by using two British inner-city community development projects as case studies to shows how 'managed development' runs counter to participatory values and aspirations of communities receiving development aid.
• Titolo autorizzato: The dominance of management
• ISBN: 1-315-61566-5; 1-317-03535-6; 1-317-03534-8; 1-282-65774-7; 9786612657740; 1-4094-1047-1
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910784942803321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Voices in development management.