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Styles of Organizing - The Will to Form (Hardcover)
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Styles of Organizing - The Will to Form (Hardcover)
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In this book, leading organization theorist Gibson Burrell presents
a provocative and challenging approach to the study of
organizations, aiming to move beyond the two-dimensionality of much
organizational thinking and present more complex 3-D models, which
allow for the 'intractions' of apparently disparate perspectives.
The book aims to illuminate organization theory by discussing its
interrelationship with key features of economics, architecture,
aesthetics, design of the built environment, and associated
artwork. He argues that by their shared 'definitions', these areas
of social science and the humanities are struggling with the same
issue - 'the will to form'. The author suggests that, whilst there
are a huge number of possibilities for the process of organizing,
the constraints of the human body, our cognitive limitations in
space and time, and our relationship to nature, mean that these are
necessarily limited to an 'envelope' of possibilities. He then
outlines the basic parameters of the 'design envelope', analysing
it through discussion of 'styles', and examines the hidden
assumptions of these styles with regards the origins and
potentialities of human knowledge. Burrell argues that the envelope
of organizational, politico-economic, and architectural design
possibilities may be seen as a cube, thus taking forward the
geometrical notions of 'lines' of fight, 'points' of difference,
and 'planes' of agreement to discuss the huge range of, and massive
constraints upon, human organizing that are reflected in the 'will
to form'. Key differences in assumptions demarcate distinct 'styles
of organizing' which every reader possesses - whether they are
aware of them or not.
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