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Genre/Form: | Electronic books |
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Additional Physical Format: | Print version: Burrell, Gibson. Pandemonium. London ; Thousand Oaks : Sage Publications, 1997 (DLC) 96071480 (OCoLC)36622145 |
Material Type: | Document, Internet resource |
Document Type: | Internet Resource, Computer File |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Gibson Burrell |
ISBN: | 9781849207072 1849207070 0803977778 9780803977778 9781446221846 1446221849 144622399X 9781446223994 9786612262548 6612262540 1282262548 9781282262546 |
OCLC Number: | 650008363 |
Language Note: | English. |
Reproduction Notes: | Electronic reproduction. [Place of publication not identified] : HathiTrust Digital Library, 2010. MiAaHDL |
Description: | 1 online resource (244 pages) : illustrations, map |
Details: | Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. |
Contents: | Machine generated contents note: Rough Guide to Pandemonium -- Ch. 1 Pandemonium Awaits -- Ch. 2 Into Pandemonium -- Ch. 3 Magic Kingdom -- Pandemonium Municipal Library -- Ch. 4 First Exhibit: Abattoirs and Death -- Ch. 5 Second Exhibit: Pain and Disease -- Ch. 6 Third Exhibit: Satyrsville -- Ch. 7 Fourth Exhibit: Panopticon City -- Ch. 8 Fifth Exhibit: The Pillory -- Ch. 9 Sixth Exhibit: The Hall of Mirrors. |
Responsibility: | Gibson Burrell. |
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Burrell has produced a retro-organization theory that seeks to describe the underbelly (or is it the reality?) of orgnizations in pre-enlightenment terms. Organizations are as pandemonium.... Whether you agree with retro-organization theory or not, is up to you. Personnally I find it useful to view organizations where the rational andthe primordial interact and often confront each other.... If we dare look deeply through pandemonium's lens, however, it has the potential to shed a disturbing light on the issues and challenges facing the design and introduction of information systems and technologies into healthcare organizations and the role of information, now and in the future. In retrospect it may also shed light on some fo the problems surrounding its past history' - British Journal of Healthcare Computing & Information Management`Pandemonium is an irreverent and critical look at management, education and the so-called gurus. It takes as its basic premise the fact that in real organizations there is chaos, even pain, torture, death and destruction, if you look hard enough. More importantly it points out the continuing failure of organizations to recognise the real contributors - the workforce. It is a well researched and written book' - Professional Manager`A truly bizarre and sometimes filthy historical canter through abatoirs, satyriasis and Noel Edmonds' House Party, among other things, towards a theory of organization' - The Times'The author pursues a vigorous polemic on organizational development' - Financial Times`Two volumes in one, Pandemonium is a disorganisationally challenging contribution to the postmodern theory of organisations which systematically questions the underlying assumptions and values of contemporary administrative science and organization theory. The MBA will never be the same again' - Bryan S Turner, Deakin University`Pandemonium is a dark, gothic place, full of danger and enchantment for all who enter its labyrinth, a retro-vision that seeks to ensnare, disarm and disturb all who enter, whatever sense they make from the many opportunities it provides' - Stewart R Clegg, University of Technology, Sydney `Undoubtedly, Burrell, through Paradigms, has been one of the main contributors to contemporary organizational thinking, and indeed, to a not insignificant degree, has influenced the way the subject has developed' - British Journal of Industrial Relations Read more...

