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Modern Organizations: Organization Studies in the Postmodern World
Contributor(s): Clegg, Stewart R. (Author)

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 ISBN: 0803983301     ISBN-13: 9780803983304
Publisher: Sage Publications
OUR PRICE: $80.75  

Binding Type: Paperback - See All Available Formats & Editions
Published: September 1990
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Annotation: This wide-ranging analysis both explores current approaches to organization studies and relates the concepts of modernity and postmodernity to the realities of organizational structure and context. In surveying alternative perspectives on organizations in terms of ideal types, systems, contingencies, ecologies, cultures, markets and efficiency, Clegg demonstrates that no single approach is adequate to deal with the real-world variety of organizations that exist.

Drawing upon unusual and revealing examples - the production of French bread, Italian fashion and post-Confucian' Asian enterprises - he argues that their success cannot be reduced to culture' but must incorporate a fuller understanding of the ways in which organi
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BISAC Categories:
- Business & Economics | Negotiating
- Social Science | Sociology - General
- Business & Economics | Management - General
Dewey: 658
LCCN: 90061987
Physical Information: 0.58" H x 6.14" W x 9.21" L (0.86 lbs) 272 pages
Features: Bibliography, Illustrated, Index
 
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This wide-ranging analysis both explores current approaches to organization studies and relates the concepts of modernity and postmodernity to the realities of organizational structure and context. In surveying alternative perspectives on organizations in terms of ideal types, systems, contingencies, ecologies, cultures, markets and efficiency, Clegg demonstrates that no single approach is adequate to deal with the real-world variety of organizations that exist.

Drawing upon unusual and revealing examples - the production of French bread, Italian fashion and post-Confucian′ Asian enterprises - he argues that their success cannot be reduced to culture′ but must incorporate a fuller understanding of the ways in which organi

Contributor Bio(s): Clegg, Stewart R.: - Stewart Clegg is a prolific publisher of several hundred articles in leading academic journals in strategy, social science, management and organization theory; is also the author and editor of about fifty books, as well as a Fellow of the British Academy of Social Sciences, a Distinguished Fellow of the Australian and New Zealand Academy of Management, a Fellow of the Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia, and the recipient of significant awards from the American Academy of Management for his contributions to management theory and practice.
 
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