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Bureaucracy: a key idea for business and society

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Key ideas in business and managementPublication details: Routledge 2021 LondonDescription: ix, 177 p. : ill. Includes references and indexISBN:
  • 9781138483316
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 305.35 V4B8
Summary: 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 understanding of organisation. The author unveils bureaucracy as an endlessly emergent phenomenon which defies binary debate – in analysing organisation, we are all bureaucrats. In building an experiential perspective, the book develops more effective ways to interact with bureaucracy in theory and practice. Empirical material take centre stage, whilst the book employs ethnographic and auto-ethnographic methods to illuminate the existential function of bureaucracy. Taking examples from art, history and culture, this book provides an entertaining alternative academic analysis of bureaucracy as a key idea in business and society which will be essential reading for students and scholars of work and organisation https://www.routledge.com/Bureaucracy-A-Key-Idea-for-Business-and-Society/Vine/p/book/9781138483316
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Table of Contents

Chapter 1: (Re-)introducing bureaucracy.

PART I: BUREAUCRACY: RAVE, RANT, REPEAT.
Chapter 2: Bureaucracy, post-bureaucracy and identity crisis.
Chapter 3: Beyond post-bureaucracy: a brave new organizational geography? .

PART II: UNDERSTANDING BUREAU-PHOBIA.
Chapter 4: Understanding bureau-phobia part I: pathological bureaucracy.
Chapter 5: Understanding bureau-phobia part II: dystopian bureaucracy.

PART III: TOWARDS A NEW EDUCATION IN BUREAUCRACY.
Chapter 6: A bureaucratic biography.
Chapter 7: Working with bureaucracy.
Chapter 8: Concluding thoughts

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 understanding of organisation.
The author unveils bureaucracy as an endlessly emergent phenomenon which defies binary debate – in analysing organisation, we are all bureaucrats. In building an experiential perspective, the book develops more effective ways to interact with bureaucracy in theory and practice. Empirical material take centre stage, whilst the book employs ethnographic and auto-ethnographic methods to illuminate the existential function of bureaucracy.
Taking examples from art, history and culture, this book provides an entertaining alternative academic analysis of bureaucracy as a key idea in business and society which will be essential reading for students and scholars of work and organisation

https://www.routledge.com/Bureaucracy-A-Key-Idea-for-Business-and-Society/Vine/p/book/9781138483316

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