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The paradox of control in organizations
| 責任表示 | Philip J. Streatfield |
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| シリーズ | Complexity and emergence in organizations |
| データ種別 | 図書 |
| 出版情報 | London ; New York : Routledge , 2001 |
| 本文言語 | 英語 |
| 大きさ | xii, 155 p. ; 24 cm |
| 概要 | In this book Philip Streatfield reflects on his own experience as a manager to explore the question - who, or what is 'in control' in an organization. Adopting the perspective of complex responsive p...ocesses developed in the first two volumes of this series, the author takes self-organization and emergence as central themes in thinking about life in organizations. He focuses on the tension between spontaneously forming patterns of conversation, and intentional actions, arguing that the order of organizations emerges through a combination of collective interaction and individual intentions. In this book Philip Streatfield reflects on his own experience as a manager to explore the question - who, or what is 'in control' in an organization. Adopting the perspective of complex responsive processes developed in the first two volumes of this series, the author takes self-organization and emergence as central themes in thinking about life in organizations. He focuses on the tension between spontaneously forming patterns of conversation, and intentional actions, arguing that the order of organizations emerges through a combination of collective interaction and individual intentions. 続きを見る |
| 目次 | Machine generated contents note: 1 Introduction 1 The central question for organizations: who is "in control"? 3 Real life management: making it up as we go along 6 Outline of the book 9 2 Controlling quality? 13 Getting the feel of it in practice: Contac 400 13 Turning for guidance to the literature on quality control 15 Local communicative interaction in the living present 20 3 The emergence of new products: the story of SmithKline Beckman and its merger with Beecham 26 Passing judgment on SKB management 27 New product development is supposed to be planned 36 In fact new products and strategic directions emerge: drawing analogies from the complexity sciences 44 4 Managing in a post-merger situation 53 What the literature has to say on mergers 54 Coping with the post-merger situation at SmithKline Beecham 56 Networking 68 5 Making sense of the paradox of control in merger situations 76 Organizations as complex responsive processes of relating 78 Power relations 85 The conversational life of an organization 89 6 Measuring performance is not quite as simple as it seems 92 Why measure performance? 93 Project Dashboard 99 Was performance measurement really the task? 105 Ideology and power 109 7 Supply chain management is messier than one might expect 115 The budget review meeting 116 Mess in tension with order: meaning emerges 119 8 Are managers "in control"? 125 Mainstream understanding of control 126 A complex responsive process understanding of the paradox of control 129 Management as participating in the construction of meaning in the living present 133.続きを見る |
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: pbk | 中央図 3B | 336.3/St 8/20011109 | 2001 |
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書誌詳細
| 一般注記 | Includes bibliography (p. [143]-150) and index |
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| 著者標目 | Streatfield, Philip J. |
| 書誌ID | 1000715644 |
| ISBN | 0415250315 |
| NCID | BA54126516 |
| 巻冊次 | : hbk ; ISBN:0415250315 : pbk ; ISBN:0415250323 |
| 登録日 | 2009.09.15 |
| 更新日 | 2009.09.15 |