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For Formal Organization: The Past in the Present and Future of Organization Theory de Paul du Gay

For Formal Organization: The Past in the Present and Future of Organization Theory

Autor Paul du Gay, Signe Vikkelsø
en Limba Engleză Hardback – 24 noi 2016

Suntem de părere că inovația organizațională constantă, fără o ancorare în structurile formale, este mai degrabă o rețetă pentru haos decât pentru eficiență. În peisajul actual al managementului, unde accentul cade pe rețele fluide și culturi corporative difuze, For Formal Organization lansează o provocare directă: ideea că am ignorat tocmai obiectul central al disciplinei noastre — organizația formală ca entitate juridică și ierarhică. Observăm cum autorii Paul du Gay și Signe Vikkelsø diagnostichează o criză de relevanță în teoria contemporană, care a devenit atât de abstractă încât a încetat să mai ofere instrumente utile liderilor care se confruntă cu presiuni economice și sociale reale.

Ne-a atras atenția rigoarea cu care volumul pledează pentru o „știință practică a organizării”. Aceasta nu este doar o lucrare teoretică, ci un demers de recuperare a unei etici a responsabilității profesionale. Complementar volumului Organization Theory de John McAuley, care oferă o introducere critică și o panoramă istorică a disciplinei, For Formal Organization acoperă zona intervenției pragmatice, explicând cum „poziția clasică” permite managerilor să navigheze complexitatea instituțională modernă.

Această lucrare reprezintă o evoluție firească în opera lui Paul du Gay. Dacă în The Values of Bureaucracy acesta apăra necesitatea structurilor administrative în fața criticilor neoliberale, aici extinde argumentația către întreaga teorie organizațională. Față de Cultural Economy, unde analiza se concentra pe discursul despre piață, noul volum readuce în prim-plan realitatea empirică a biroului, a regulamentului și a autorității formale. Este un apel la ordine într-o eră a volatilității, oferind un fundament solid pentru oricine dorește să înțeleagă mecanismele profunde ale puterii și deciziei în instituțiile moderne.

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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780198705123
ISBN-10: 0198705123
Pagini: 222
Dimensiuni: 160 x 241 x 18 mm
Greutate: 0.49 kg
Editura: OUP OXFORD
Colecția OUP Oxford
Locul publicării:Oxford, United Kingdom

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Recomandăm această carte liderilor și teoreticienilor care simt că modelele actuale de management sunt prea vagi. Cititorul va câștiga o înțelegere clară a importanței structurilor formale și a modului în care „etica biroului” poate preveni disoluția organizațională. Este un instrument esențial pentru a transforma teoria abstractă în intervenție practică, oferind o busolă etică și rațională într-un mediu de afaceri tot mai fragmentat.

Despre autor

Paul du Gay este un teoretician proeminent în domeniul sociologiei organizaționale, cunoscut pentru apărarea valorilor birocrației și analizei riguroase a instituțiilor publice și private. Alături de Signe Vikkelsø, expertă în design organizațional, acesta explorează intersecția dintre teorie și practica administrativă. Opera sa, care include titluri de referință precum The Values of Bureaucracy și contribuții majore în Oxford Handbooks, se concentrează pe recuperarea demnității instituționale și pe critica modelor manageriale care ignoră realitățile structurale.

Descriere

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

Recenzii

this is an important book which pursues its thesis with passion, erudition and lucidity, seeking to restore formal organization as the proper object of our discipline and the guiding principle for organizational action. It demands to be read attentively and is the kind of monograph that restores one's faith in the willingness of some scholars today to engage with the big questions facing the discipline. It especially demands to be taken seriously as an attempt to restore formal organization as a defence against arbitrary executive power, hype and pseudo-charisma.
This book really does need to be widely read. It is a thoroughly enlightening cultural account, throwing its illuminations upon many of the habits of thought that pervade academic, popular and government discourse.
Organization theory has suffered recently from justifiable criticisms of being monotheistically consumed by overly abstract theories that deny managerial agency and have contributed to its' growing irrelevance. Paul du Gay and Signe Vikkelso have written an important book that offers salvation. For Formal Organization offers a thoughtful realignment of organization theory. Using classic texts and practical contemporary questions the authors (finally) present a compelling argument for why we need more organization theory. This is an absolutely marvellous book.
A work of stunning originality and yet paradoxically a reminder of the forgotten virtues and verities of classical organization theory. In this provocative book du Gay and Vikkelsø navigate a way out of many of the blind alleys of much recent work in the field. Lucid and scholarly, it deserves to become a landmark contribution to organization theory in the 21st century.
This book fundamentally questions the direction of intellectual travel that organization theory has followed over the last half-century. By mounting a direct and sustained challenge to the, now dominant, 'metaphysical stance' and the theories it has legitimated, du Gay and Vikkelso offer a very different and distinctive conception of how 'organization' should be studied and practiced to that promulgated by new orthodoxies such as neo-institutional theory.
Early theories of organization had a practical aim of getting things done. This practical focus has long been displaced by a more metaphysical approach, at a cost of losing formal organization as an object of study. Du Gay and Vikkelso challenge us to recover the practical focus of organization theory for a world that increasingly needs what organization theory has to offer.
For Formal Organization offers a detailed account of the need to approach Organization Theory from a formal point of view. The authors explain in minute detail the consequences of ignoring organizations' empirical (legal) reality. They show that the dominant metaphysical stance in Organization Theory leads to the creation of elaborate theoretical simulacra (such as the 'nexus of contracts' approach, or 'institutional fields') deemed to better represent reality than the formal view of organizations.

Notă biografică

Paul du Gay has published extensively in sociology, cultural studies, public management and organization studies. He is the author inter alia of Consumption and Identity at Work and In Praise of Bureaucracy. His recent publications include New Spirits of Capitalism? Crises, Justifications and Dynamics (ed. with G. Morgan, OUP) and The Oxford Handbook of Sociology, Social Theory and Organization Studies: Contemporary Currents (with P. Adler, G. Morgan, and M. Reed eds., OUP). At CBS he is Academic Director of the School's Public Private Platform and leads the Velux Foundation project 'Office as a Vocation'.Signe Vikkelsø's research focuses on organizational analysis and the organizing effects of tools and techniques in work practices and human relations. Drawing upon cases from healthcare, psychoanalysis, and industrial production she has published in sociology of science and technology, psychology, CSCW and organization studies. Her recent publications include a comprehensive Handbook in Classic and Modern Organization Theory (ed. with P. Kjær, Hans Reitzels Forlag). At CBS she is head of the Department of Organization, and member of the Research, Innovation and Organization Cluster.