The Values of Bureaucracy

Erscheinungsjahr 2005
ISBN: 978-0-19-927546-5
Verlag: OUP Oxford

Buch, Englisch, 360 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 547 g

The end of bureaucracy has been anticipated many times throughout the history of management science, as well as in modern social and political theory. This book sets out to show why bureaucracy persists and what values it embodies and upholds. Thus the book seeks to show how and why bureaucratic forms of organization have played, and continue to play, a vital and productive role in ordering our political, social, economic, and cultural existence.

The book also describes and analyzes the impact of contemporary programmes of organizational reform in the public and private sectors on bureaucratic structures, and seeks to highlight some of the costs of attempts to de-bureaucratize organizational life in business, government, and the third sector. Overall the volume highlights the values of bureaucracy and at the same time indicates why distinctively bureaucratic forms of organization should continue to be valued.

Zielgruppe

Academics, researchers, and graduate students of Management and Organization Studies, Public Management, Sociology, and Political Science.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Du Gay, Paul

Fachgebiete

• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Betriebswirtschaft Management Unternehmensführung
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Systeme Verwaltungswissenschaft, Öffentliche Verwaltung
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Betriebswirtschaft Betriebswirtschaft: Theorie & Allgemeines
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein Politische Theorie, Politische Philosophie
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Sozialphilosophie, Politische Philosophie
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Betriebswirtschaft Organisationstheorie, Organisationssoziologie, Organisationspsychologie
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein
• Rechtswissenschaften Öffentliches Recht Verwaltungsrecht Verwaltungsorganisation und -politik, Verwaltungslehre
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Wirtschaftswissenschaften Wirtschaftswissenschaften: Allgemeines
• Rechtswissenschaften Öffentliches Recht Verwaltungsrecht Verwaltungspraxis Öffentliche Verwaltung: Allgemeines

Inhaltsverzeichnis

- Section 1: The Politics of Bureaucracy

- 1: Charles T. Goodsell: The Bureau as Unit of Governance

- 2: Paul du Gay: Bureaucracy and Liberty: State, Authority, and Freedom

- 3: Thomas Armbrüster: Bureaucracy and the Controversy Between Liberal Interventionism and Non-Interventionism

- Section 2: The End of Bureaucracy?

- 4: Paul Thompson and Mats Alvesson: Bureaucracy at Work: Misunderstandings and Mixed Blessings

- 5: Michael Reed: Beyond the Iron Cage? Bureaucracy and Democracy in the Knowledge Economy and Society

- 6: Graeme Salaman: Bureaucracy and Beyond: Managers and Leaders in the 'Post-Bureaucratic' Organization

- Section 3: Bureaucracy and Public Management

- 7: Paul Hoggett: A Service to the Public: The Containment of Ethical and Moral Conflicts by Public Bureaucracies

- 8: Janet Newman: Bending Bureaucracy: Leadership and Multi-Level Governance

- 9: John Clarke: Performing for the Public: Doubt, Desire, and the Evaluation of Public Services

- 10: Daniel Miller: What is Best 'Value'? Bureaurcarcy, Virtualism, and Local Governance

- Section 4: Bureaucracy and Civil Society

- 11: Yvonne Due Billing: Gender Equality: A Bureaucratic Enterprise?

- 12: Anonino Palumbo and Alan Scott: Bureaucracy, Open Access, and Social Pluralism: Returning the Common to the Goose

- 13: Mike Savage: The Popularity of Bureaucracy: Involvement in Voluntary Associations

Über Autor(innen)

Paul du Gay is Professor of Sociology and Organization Studies, and Co-Director of the Centre for Citizenship, Identities and Governance, in the Faculty of Social Sciences at the Open University. His research is located in the sociology of organizational life and cultural studies. His recent publications include, In Praise of Bureaucracy (Sage, 2000) and Cultural Economy (ed. with M. Pryke, 2002). Culture, Person and Organization: Essays in Cultural Economy will be published by Sage in 2005.