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Styles of Organizing: The Will to Form - Hardcover

Burrell, Gibson

 
9780199671625: Styles of Organizing: The Will to Form

Synopsis

The book is a provocative and challenging approach to the study of organizations by one of the UK's leading organization theorists, who uses various ideas and metaphors from economics, architecture, and design to move beyond the two-dimensionality of much organizational thinking to present more complex 3-D models.

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About the Author

Gibson Burrell is Professor of Organization Theory at Leicester and was Head of the School of Management from 2002-7. He was elected an Academician for the Social Sciences (AcSS) in 2005. Previously at the Universities of Essex, Warwick, and Lancaster, in each of which he undertook a number of administrative roles, he now teaches critical management perspectives at undergraduate and postgraduate levels. He has been a Visiting Fellow or Visiting Professor at Universities in Australia, Poland, Sweden, the UK and the USA. His Sociological Paradigms and Organizational Analysis has been a seminal text for organization studies students for three decades.

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