Bureaucracy : a key idea for business and society / Tom Vine.

Bureaucracy is a curse-- it seems we can't live with it, we can't live without it. It is without doubt one of the fundamental ideas which underpin the business world and society at large. In this book, Tom Vine observes, analyses and critiques the concept, placing it at the heart of our un...

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Main Author: Vine, Tom (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2021.
Series:Key ideas in business and management.
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Table of Contents:
  • 1: (Re-)introducing bureaucracy
  • Part I: Bureaucracy: Rave, Rant, Repeat
  • 2: Bureaucracy, post-bureaucracy and identity crisis
  • 3: Beyond post-bureaucracy: a brave new organizational geography?
  • Part II: Understanding Bureau-phobia
  • 4: Understanding Bureau-phobia part I: Pathological bureaucracy
  • 5: Understanding Bureau-phobia part II: Dystopian bureaucracy
  • Part III: Towards a New Education in Bureaucracy
  • 6: A bureaucratic biography
  • 7: Working with bureaucracy
  • 8: Concluding thoughts
  • References
  • Index.