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Fabrizio
Dear colleagues, I apologize for the cross-posting.
I would like to inform you about the new edited research book Evolution of the Post-Bureaucratic Organization.
Please find below a brief description of the rationale, the aims and the contents of the publication.
Best Regards
Fabrizio
Dr Fabrizio Maimone
Adjunct Professor of Organizational Theory and Design
LUMSA University, Rome, Italy
Lecturer of Organizational Communication
LUISS Business School, Rome, Italy
Editor in chief
European Journal of Cross-Cultural Competence and Management
Evolution of the Post-Bureaucratic Organization
Pierfranco Malizia (Libera Universita Maria SS Assunta, Italy), Chiara Cannavale (Parthenope University of Naples, Italy) and Fabrizio Maimone (Libera Universita Maria SS Assunta, Italy)
Advances in Human Resources Management and Organizational Development (AHRMOD) series: 37 Volumes
IGI Global, USA
Release Date: January, 2017, Pages: 509
Evolution of the Post-Bureaucratic Organization is an edited research book. It provides an international and multidisciplinary view on the new perspectives and the advancements of the research on bureaucratic/post-bureaucratic organizations.
The study of (post)bureaucratic organizations, after a period of apparent loss of interest in the topic, has recently acquired a new actuality, presumably due to the rising complexity and irreducible ambiguity that inform the new century organizational landscapes.
This book tries to provide an update and innovative perspective on post-bureaucratic organizations and to move the debate on the real nature and dynamics of post-bureaucratic systems forward.
This book is aimed to meet the growing demand of new innovative theoretical perspectives to unlock bureaucratic/post-bureaucratic phenomena and of operative models that help decision makers, managers and practitioners to improve their ability to manage effectively contemporary organizations. To achieve its mission, the book provides a set of contributes that adopt different (but not necessarily antinomic) theoretical perspectives and embrace diverse scientific areas:
• Business Economics,
• Management,
• Business Ethics
• Organizational Theory,
• Human Resources Management,
• Organizational Sociology,
• Intercultural and cross-cultural management,
• Organizational Communication.
The book is also an attempt to provide a different view on the structural and normative framework of the post – bureaucratic organization (and, consequently, of the post-bureaucratic organizing), focused on the role of intangible assets (such as culture, communication, knowledge, etc.) as "soft" drivers and
sources of coordination and control. On the other hand, the book offers different views on the debate on bureaucratic and post-bureaucratic organizations, providing a multidisciplinary and multi-paradigmatic framework. Some of the contributions proposed in this volume try also to explain the reasons of the surviving of the bureaucratic models, also in the digital age, even though in different and renewed forms.
They also propose to go beyond the modern rationality and epistemological tool of ideal type, finding new ways to analyse, design and manage bureaucratic and post-bureaucratic systems, in search of a better harmony and synergy among governance systems, formal and informal coordination systems, managerial policies and practices.
The goal of the book is threefold: a) to provide an integrated and consistent theoretical framework on post-bureaucratic organizations, adopting a multidisciplinary perspective; b) to analyze the main issues concerning the real nature, role, functioning, paradoxes and controversial issues related to the evolutions of post-bureaucratic organization; c) to provide some case studies that may contribute to a better understanding of some critical aspects related to the emerging of post-bureaucratic organizations.