Vikkels Signe (Professor At The Department Of Organization Copenhagen Business School Professor At The Department Of Organization Copenhagen Business School) - For Formal Organization The Past In The Present And Future Of Organization Theory -

Binding: Hardcover
Description: This book focuses on the state of Organization Theory its purpose object and practical relevance. In recent years disquiet has mounted within the field of organizational analysis broadly defined about the overly theoretical and a - or anti - organizational state of Organization Theory and its consequent lack of practical purchase not least in the light of pressing economic social and political concerns that are often profoundly organizational in nature. The book argues that predominant contemporary modes of theorising within the field and in particular the stance associated with them have had the effect of occluding and dissolving Organization Theory's core object - formal organization - and as a consequence dissipating its practical focus and reach. The book seeks to contribute to the goal of reviving Organization Theory as a practical science of organizing and rehabilitating its core object - formal organization - through a re - examination and re - assessment of the outlook comportment and attitude - stance - animating its classical antecedents. This ambition is double edged. For not only does it seek to revive Organization Theory through reconnecting it with the practical orientation framing classical organizational analysis it also seeks to indicate how the historic products of that orientation or stance still have considerable traction for analysing and intervening in contemporary matters of organizational concern. Not least this 'classical organizational stance provides those who adopt it with a method with which to orient themselves both in formal organizational thought and in formal organizational life. It furnishes them with an ethos combining both practical rationality and ethical seriousness. In this sense the book suggest itself both as a guide to doing Organizational analysis and doing practical organization
Title: For Formal Organization The Past In The Present And Future Of Organization Theory
Author(s): Vikkels Signe (Professor At The Department Of Organization Copenhagen Business School Professor At The Department Of Organization Copenhagen Business School)
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Barcode: 9780198705123
Pages: 222 Pages
Publication Date: 1/25/2017
Category: Organizational Theory & Behaviour