Reason's neglect: rationality and organizing (Record no. 198346)
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| fixed length control field | 02013 a2200217 4500 |
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| fixed length control field | 150304b2011 xxu||||| |||| 00| 0 eng d |
| 020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER | |
| International Standard Book Number | 9780199298358 |
| 020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER | |
| International Standard Book Number | 9780199298365 |
| 020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER | |
| International Standard Book Number | 9780191700880 |
| 082 ## - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER | |
| Classification number | 302.35 |
| Item number | T6R3 |
| 100 ## - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME | |
| Personal name | Townley, Barbara |
| 9 (RLIN) | 172490 |
| 245 ## - TITLE STATEMENT | |
| Title | Reason's neglect: rationality and organizing |
| 260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. (IMPRINT) | |
| Name of publisher, distributor, etc | Oxford University Press |
| Place of publication, distribution, etc | Oxford |
| Date of publication, distribution, etc | 2011 |
| 300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION | |
| Extent | xi, 288 p. |
| 520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC. | |
| Summary, etc | Reason, and the need to Be Rational, are essential dimensions of society and the organizations we live and work in. Yet the ‘rationalization’ of working and administrative processes, or the ‘rationality’ studied in social sciences, is all too often, used, understood, and interpreted in an extremely narrow sense. This book does three things. Firstly, it argues that rationality is a leitmotif of organization studies, but one that has often been neglected. Secondly, it deploys Foucault's work to recover the neglected dimensions of rationality. In doing this, it allows for a revisionary exploration of key subjects in organization studies: organization theory, bureaucracy, technology, culture, practice, etc. Finally, the book presents the case of new rational management techniques being introduced in an organization, allowing individuals to ‘speak for themselves’, and examining how they respond to these innovations, and how they make sense of them. Arguing that rationality should be seen as disembedded, embedded, or embodied, each chapter goes on to explore a different aspect of reason, such as economic, bureaucratic, technocratic, institutional, or contextual. (http://www.oxfordscholarship.com/view/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199298358.001.0001/acprof-9780199298358) |
| 650 ## - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
| Topical term or geographic name as entry element | Industrial management |
| 9 (RLIN) | 7 |
| 650 ## - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
| Topical term or geographic name as entry element | Corporate culture |
| 9 (RLIN) | 315058 |
| 650 ## - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
| Topical term or geographic name as entry element | Organization |
| 9 (RLIN) | 7764 |
| 856 ## - ELECTRONIC LOCATION AND ACCESS | |
| Materials specified | E-Book |
| Uniform Resource Identifier | https://oxford.universitypressscholarship.com/view/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199298358.001.0001/acprof-9780199298358 |
| Access method | Unlimited (Internet) |
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| Item type | eBooks |
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| Reference | Vikram Sarabhai Library | Vikram Sarabhai Library | General Stacks | 2015-03-04 | Oxford University Press | 12910.11 | 302.35 T6R3 | ER000451 | 2015-03-04 | 15188.37 | eBooks |