New organization forms - the career of a concept

Title: New organization forms - the career of a concept
Creator: Palmer, Ian; Dunford, Richard
Relation: The Sage Handbook of New Approaches in Management and Organization p. 567-569
Relation: http://www.uk.sagepub.com/refbooks/Book228120#tabview=toc
Publisher: Sage
Resource Type: book chapter
Date: 2008
Description: In the beginning (well, almost the beginning) there was the word - and it belonged to Tom Peters. He spoke to us and let us know that 'in this madcap world, turned-on and theoretically empowered people ... will never amount to a hill of beans in the vertically oriented, staff-driven, thick-headquarters corporate structures that still do most of the world's business' (1992: 13). He told us to go forth and make sure 'the arteries are unclogged (the "structure" part), then radically rewired (the "systems" part)' (1992: 13). And so was our attention directed to tum from the old structures, for those were depicted as the way to doom and despair in this high-paced world. Instead, we were told of the need to embrace the new structures, the small, impermanent project-oriented teams which would be able to provide the speed and flexibility needed to survive in this 'madcap world'.
Subject: organisational forms; organisational practices; management
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/1053111
Identifier: uon:15526
Identifier: ISBN:9781412912181
Language: eng

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