This introductory text should be useful to all those who seek to make organization theory accessible from a critical perspective. It aims to bring radical theories of organization to a wider readership while still retaining the fundamentals of mainstream accounts. Key mainstream studies are introduced from a critical perspective, and several competing approaches to organizational analysis are discussed. Issues of class, gender and race/ethnicity are treated as essential features of organizational analysis and organizations are viewed as historically constructed entities. The reader is encouraged to develop a critical approach to organizational analysis, concerned with the application of theory to key issues and questions in the construction of alternative organizations and social formations. Each chapter includes a list of key concepts, an introductory case, various illustrative examples and discussion questions. Cases and examples are largely drawn from Canadian material.
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- PublisherGaramond Press
- Publication date1994
- ISBN 10 0920059074
- ISBN 13 9780920059074
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages240