Critical Studies in Organization and Bureaucracy
81 J. Patrick Wright , with John DeLorean , On a Clear Day You Can See General Motors ( New York : Avon Books , 1979 ) , pp . 23 , 53 . 82 Garson , All the Livelong Day , p . 152 ; Braverman , Labor and Monopoly Capital , pp . 293-326 .
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The American Journal of Sociology says of this book "Mouzelis knows and handles the literature well and accurately brings the reader up to the early sixties.
Based mainly on State Department materials, but addressing generic problems of organizational politics as well, this book provides a fresh, intelligent, and lively account of bureaucratic behavior.
An organization that aspires to be inclusive in the face of obdurate exclusionary practices in the broader society must engage in various kinds of imaginary indexing of the missing voices . Who is missing and who should speak for them ?
For this edition the book has been thoroughly revised and updated, with two key changes: each of the six core chapters has been trimmed and edited to consolidate and streamline the important organizational theory developments since the book ...
Essays on theory building and empirical theory testing in the study of bureaucracy and public policy
The book offers solutions as simple as passing this book around and talking about it. The book offers solutions as complex as changing your mission and your organizational structure to become more customer focused.
A ' resource - based approach Some further insight into these trends has been provided by Williamson ( 1975 ; 1977 ) , who has developed , building on Chandler's ( 1962 ; 1977 ) work , a theory of transaction cost .