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Title: |
The Organization of Hypocrisy |
| Sub-title: |
Talk, Decisions and Actions in Organizations |
| Edition: |
3rd Edition |
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| By (author): |
Nils Brunsson |
| ISBN10-13: |
8763003708 : 9788763003704 |
| Format: |
Paperback |
| Size: |
230x165mm |
| Pages: |
242 |
| Weight: |
.478 Kg. |
| Published: |
CBS Press (DK) - September 2019 |
| List Price: |
42.90 Pounds Sterling |
| Availability: |
Temporarily Out of Stock, more expected soon
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| Subjects: |
Organizational theory & behaviour |
| In this pioneering, now classic, and still highly relevant book, Nils Brunsson analyses the way organisations handle a complex environment by including conflicting demands in their structures and by compensating for their actions with contradictory decisions. |
| Table of Contents: |
| Organizations and Inconsistent Norms; The Political Organization Principle; Politics in Practice; Decisions as Transition Between Politics and Action; Responsibility as an Empidement to Influence: The Case of Budgeting; The Responsible Organization; Projects and Organizations; Ideas, decisions and Actions in Organizations; The Dynamics of Hypocrisy. |
| Reviews: |
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"This is an attractive book, full of challeging paradoxes. Brunsson manages to overturn conventionale theory agaian, each time with great élan" -- Richard Whittington, Journal of Management Studies
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