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Bureaucracy or participation : the logic of organization
- Title
- Bureaucracy or participation : the logic of organization / Bengt Abrahamsson ; introduction by Morris Janowitz.
- Author
- Abrahamsson, Bengt, 1937-
- Publication
- Beverly Hills, Calif. : Sage Publications, ©1977.
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Details
- Description
- 240 pages : illustrations; 22 cm
- Summary
- Monograph on theories of bureaucracy and business organization in relation to workers participation in decision making - reviews concepts of bureaucracy put forth in Marxism and by weber and michels as well as administration theory encompassing the perspectives of rationalism, systems, mechanistic and organic structure, and examines aspects of political participation, workers representation, workers self management in Yugoslavia and egalitarian democracy. Bibliography pp. 231 to 236 and flow charts.
- Series Statement
- Sage library of social research ; v. 51
- Uniform Title
- Organisationsteori. English
- Sage library of social research ; v. 51.
- Alternative Title
- Organisationsteori.
- Subject
- Management
- Management > Employee participation > Sweden
- Organization
- Management > Employee participation
- Organization and Administration
- management
- Organization
- Management
- Management > Employee participation
- Bürokratie
- Demokratisierung
- Führung
- Organisation
- Bureaucratie
- Medezeggenschap
- theory
- bureaucracy
- business organization
- workers participation
- decision making
- Marxism
- political participation
- workers representation
- workers self management
- Bureaucracy > Sweden
- théorie
- bureaucratie
- organisation de l'entreprise
- participation des travailleurs
- prise de décision
- marxisme
- participation politique
- représentation des travailleurs
- autogestion ouvrière
- teoría
- burocracia
- organización de la empresa
- participación de los trabajadores
- toma de decisiones
- marxismo
- participación política
- representación de los trabajadores
- autogestión obrera
- Sweden
- Yugoslavia
- Yougoslavie
- Genre/Form
- bibliography.
- bibliographie.
- bibliografía.
- Note
- Translation of Organisationsteori.
- Includes index.
- Bibliography (note)
- Bibliography: p. 231-236.
- Contents
- Part I: The emergence of bureaucracy: outer forces or inner logic? -- 1. Bureaucracy: some general remarks -- 2. Theories of bureaucracy -- Part II: Administration theory: rationalism and the systems perspective -- 3. "Classical" and "modern" in organization theory -- 4. Theoretical outlooks: rationalism and the systems perspective -- 5. Rationalism and means-ends analysis -- 6. The systems perspective: some basic characteristics -- 7. Mechanistic and organic structures -- 8. The rationalistic perspective: problems and shortcomings -- 9. The systems perspective: problems and shortcomings -- 10. A process model for the study of organizations -- Part III: Participation, self-management, and organizational democracy -- 11. On socio-technical and political participation -- 12. Participation and problems of representative in organizations -- 13. Yugoslavia: participation and self-management -- 14. On participative and egalitarian democracy -- 15. Postscript: the struggle against bureaucracy.
- ISBN
- 0803908369
- 9780803908369
- 0803908377
- 9780803908376
- LCCN
- 77010023
- OCLC
- ocm03072346
- 3072346
- SCSB-198533
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library