Anarchism, Organization and Management: Critical Perspectives for Students - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1138044113 ISBN 13: 9781138044111

Verlag: Routledge, 2020

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You might think that anarchism and management are opposed, but this book shows how engaging with the long history of anarchist ideas allows us to understand the problems of contemporary organizing much more clearly. Anarchism is a theory of organizing, and in times when global capitalism is in question, we need new ideas more than ever.

The reader of this book will learn how anarchist ideas are relevant to today's management problems. In a series of student-friendly short chapters on contemporary topics, the authors challenge the common sense that has allowed particular forms of organization and market to become globally dominant. Do we always need leaders? Is technological change always a good thing? Are markets the best way to arrange forms of exchange? This challenging book is essential for anyone who wants to understand what is wrong with business school theory and what we might do about it.

For students and teachers of management, the standard textbook reproduces the dominant ideas about the way that business should be done. This book turns those ideas on their head, asking awkward questions about authority, technology and markets and demanding that its readers think hard about whether they want to reproduce those ideas too. Students of management, like everyone else, know that the current global system is broken but they don't know what they can do about it. This unique book uses 200 years of anarchist ideas to give readers a clear guide for building the organizations and businesses of the future and places choice and responsibility at the centre of making a new world for people and the planet.

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Martin Parker is a professor in the School of Management, University of Bristol, and author of Shut Down the Business School (2018).

Konstantin Stoborod is an independent scholar based in Moscow.

Thomas Swann is a Leverhulme Early Career Fellow in Politics and International Studies at Loughborough University. His book Anarchist Cybernetics will be published in 2020.

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The book shows how anarchist ideas can turn management on its head, challenging business school assumptions about the theory and practice of organizing.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Routledge
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2020
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 1138044113
• ISBN 13: 9781138044111
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Auflage: 1
• Anzahl der Seiten: 264
• Herausgeber: Parker Martin
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