The Vulnerable Fortress : : Bureaucratic Organization and Management in the Information Age / / James R. Taylor, Elizabeth Van Every Taylor.
In this challenging book, James R. Taylor and Elizabeth J. Van Every argue that partly as a result of the introduction of information and communications technology into the workplace, the nature and authority of the traditional bureaucratic form of organization is being called into question. While n...
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Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Toronto Press eBook-Package Archive 1933-1999 |
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Place / Publishing House: | Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2016] ©1993 |
Year of Publication: | 2016 |
Language: | English |
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Physical Description: | 1 online resource (283 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Preface
- Part 1: Organization in the Information Age
- 1. A world in flux
- 2. Coping with office automation: the conversation and the text
- 3. Beyond the machine metaphor
- 4. Organization as talk and text
- Part 2: Management in the Information Age
- 5. The changing transactional environment
- 6. The evolution of software: the new text
- 7. Managing in the information society
- 8. The fall of the fortress?
- Notes
- References
- Index