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Values at Work
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 211

Values at Work

Values at Work is an analysis of organizational dynamics with wide-ranging implications in an age of market globalization. It looks at the challenges businesses face to maintain people-oriented work systems while remaining successful in the larger economy. George Cheney revisits the famous Mondragón worker-owned-and-governed cooperatives in the Basque Country of Spain to examine how that collection of innovative and democratic businesses is responding to the broad trend of marketization. The Mondragón cooperatives are changing in important ways as a direct result of both external pressures to be more competitive and the rise of consumerism, as well as through the modification of internal policies toward greater efficiency. One of the most remarkable aspects of the changes is that some of the same business slogans now heard around the globe are being adopted in this set of organizations renowned for its strongly held internal values, such as participatory democracy, solidarity, and equality. Instead of emphasizing the special or unique qualities of the Mondragón experience, this book demonstrates the case's relevance to trends in all sectors and across the industrialized world.

Institutions and Ideology
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 320

Institutions and Ideology

Contributes to the literature on the sociology of organizations and management, especially to sociological institutionalism. This title covers the empirical areas that range from technology and software development, the brewing industry, custodial facilities to the organization of birthing.

Organizational Relationships in the Networking Age
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 334

Organizational Relationships in the Networking Age

Globalization, the information technology revolution, individualization and other processes in contemporary society all impact on organizations. This text analyzes the framework of these organizational relationships and the dynamics of identity formation and bonding on several levels.

Manageable IT Projects
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 148

Manageable IT Projects

Analysis of a range of major administrative IT projects has lead to a surprising conclusion: The owners' often unconscious choice of "project model", appears to be a key factor, separating successful projects from failures. This book describes how the two project models operate and explains the hidden mechanisms of organizational culture.

Open Source Systems
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 353

Open Source Systems

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2006-08-29
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  • Publisher: Springer

This book collects the proceedings of the Second International Conference on Open Software - OSS 2006, held in Como, Italy in June, 2006, where researchers from all over the world discussed how OSS is produced, its huge potential for innovative applications and in groundbreaking OSS business models. The book takes an important step toward appreciation of the OSS phenomenon, presenting 20 refereed full papers and 12 more in shorter form.

The Oxford Handbook of Process Philosophy and Organization Studies
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 657

The Oxford Handbook of Process Philosophy and Organization Studies

This Handbook presents key ideas of philosophers and social theorists whose ideas inform process approaches to organization studies. Each chapter addresses the background and context of this thinker, their work (with a focus on the processual elements), and the potential contribution to organization and management research.

New Themes in Institutional Analysis
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 465

New Themes in Institutional Analysis

Institutional theory has become one of the dominant organizational approaches in recent decades. Its roots can be traced to Europe, and an important intellectual objective of this book is to examine North American theory strands and reconnect them with European research traditions. In addition, this book focuses on how organizations and individuals handle heterogeneous and challenging social conditions which are subsequently reflected in various forms of change.

Ibss: Economics: 1999
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 660

Ibss: Economics: 1999

IBSS is the essential tool for librarians, university departments, research institutions and any public or private institution whose work requires access to up-to-date and comprehensive knowledge of the social sciences

Institutional Work
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 337

Institutional Work

This book contains a series of essays and empirical case studies exploring the nature of institutional work.

Cheaper by the Hour
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 235

Cheaper by the Hour

How attorneys' work is deprofessionalized, downgraded, and controlled through part-time and temporary assignments.