Bureaucracy: a key idea for business and society

By:

Vine, Tom

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: Routledge London 2021Description: viii, 177 pISBN:

9781138483316

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DDC classification:

302.35 VIN

Summary: Bureaucracy is a curse – it seems we can’t live with it, we can’t live without it. It is without doubt one of the fundamental ideas which underpin the business world and society at large. In this book, Tom Vine observes, analyses and critiques the concept, placing it at the heart of our understanding of organisation. The author unveils bureaucracy as an endlessly emergent phenomenon which defies binary debate – in analysing organisation, we are all bureaucrats. In building an experiential perspective, the book develops more effective ways to interact with bureaucracy in theory and practice. Empirical material take centre stage, whilst the book employs ethnographic and auto-ethnographic methods to illuminate the existential function of bureaucracy. Taking examples from art, history and culture, this book provides an entertaining alternative academic analysis of bureaucracy as a key idea in business and society which will be essential reading for students and scholars of work and organisation.

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Table of Contents
Chapter 1: (Re-)introducing bureaucracy. PART I: BUREAUCRACY: RAVE, RANT, REPEAT. Chapter 2: Bureaucracy, post-bureaucracy and identity crisis. Chapter 3: Beyond post-bureaucracy: a brave new organizational geography? . PART II: UNDERSTANDING BUREAU-PHOBIA. Chapter 4: Understanding bureau-phobia part I: pathological bureaucracy. Chapter 5: Understanding bureau-phobia part II: dystopian bureaucracy. PART III: TOWARDS A NEW EDUCATION IN BUREAUCRACY. Chapter 6: A bureaucratic biography. Chapter 7: Working with bureaucracy. Chapter 8: Concluding thoughts

Bureaucracy is a curse – it seems we can’t live with it, we can’t live without it. It is without doubt one of the fundamental ideas which underpin the business world and society at large. In this book, Tom Vine observes, analyses and critiques the concept, placing it at the heart of our understanding of organisation.

The author unveils bureaucracy as an endlessly emergent phenomenon which defies binary debate – in analysing organisation, we are all bureaucrats. In building an experiential perspective, the book develops more effective ways to interact with bureaucracy in theory and practice. Empirical material take centre stage, whilst the book employs ethnographic and auto-ethnographic methods to illuminate the existential function of bureaucracy.

Taking examples from art, history and culture, this book provides an entertaining alternative academic analysis of bureaucracy as a key idea in business and society which will be essential reading for students and scholars of work and organisation.

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