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Power and organizations
Record details
- ISBN: 9780761943914
- ISBN: 0761943919
- ISBN: 9780761943921
- ISBN: 0761943927
- ISBN: 9781847877499 (electronic bk.)
- ISBN: 1847877494 (electronic bk.)
- ISBN: 0761943919 (cased)
- ISBN: 0761943927 (pbk.)
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1 online resource (x, 457 p.) : ill. - Publisher: London : SAGE, 2006.
Content descriptions
| General Note: | Multi-User. |
| Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Formatted Contents Note: | Fixing the institutionalization of theory and practice -- Power and efficiency -- Body, soul, and mind -- Curious case of max weber -- Rational system and its irrational other -- The Heart of darkness -- Power to and power over -- The foucault effect -- Critical theories of organizational power -- Discursive thoeries of organizational power -- Power and organizational forms -- Corporate power elites -- Futures of power. |
| Source of Description Note: | Description based on print version record. |
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- Book News
With the intention of fixing some of the notions about power and organization, the authors let it be known early that by "fixing" they mean they are developing an image, as in a photograph, and exercising power by fixing or refixing its relations as nodal points. They thus situate power in organization and social theory and show how power becomes embedded in routines in organizations. They analyze the shift from formal design of work to concerns about the people at work, the contributions of Weber, the role of the disenfranchised in identifying power as a systemic enemy, the oversimplification of theories of power that led to the horrors of modernity, the debate between positive and negative power, Foucault's impact on thought about Hobbes and Locke, critical theories, discursive theories, forms, corporate ethics, and how current society might affect power as a concept and a practice. Annotation ©2006 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com) - Sage Publications
In this tour de force, authors Stewart R. Clegg, David Courpasson, and Nelson Phillips provide a comprehensive account of power and organizations, unlocking power as the central relation of modern organizations and society. The authors present an excellent synthesis of organization, social and political theory to offer an overview of power and organizations that is historically informed, addresses current issues, and is comprehensive in scope.
