CURRENTLY SOLD OUT

Styles of Organizing: The Will to Form by Gibson Burrell (Hardcover, 2013)

About this product

Best-selling in Adult Learning & University

See all

Current slide {CURRENT_SLIDE} of {TOTAL_SLIDES}- Best-selling in Adult Learning & University

Secrets Of Mental Math: The Mathemagician's Guide to Lightening Calculation and Amazing Maths Tricks by Arthur Benjamin, Michael Shermer (Paperback, 2006)
4.8 out of 5 stars based on 16 product ratings
£0.99 New
---- Used
The Falsification of History: Our Distorted Reality by John Hamer (Paperback, 2013)
5.0 out of 5 stars based on 2 product ratings
£25.99 New
---- Used
Code of Practice for In-service Inspection and Testing of Electrical Equipment by The Institution of Engineering and Technology (Paperback, 2020)
4.9 out of 5 stars based on 10 product ratings
£44.20 New
£34.99 Used
Never Split the Difference: Negotiating as if Your Life Depended on It by Chris Voss, Tahl Raz (Paperback, 2017)
4.9 out of 5 stars based on 41 product ratings
£6.39 New
£5.99 Used
Weapons of Mass Instruction: A Schoolteacher's Journey Through the Dark World of Compulsory Schooling by John Taylor Gatto (Paperback, 2010)
No ratings or reviews yet
£14.17 New
£12.99 Used
Adult Children of Emotionally Immature Parents: How to Heal from Distant, Rejecting, or Self-Involved Parents by Lindsay C Gibson (Paperback, 2015)
4.5 out of 5 stars based on 8 product ratings
£7.05 New
---- Used
Die with Zero: Getting All You Can from Your Money and Your Life by Bill Perkins (Paperback, 2021)
5.0 out of 5 stars based on 1 product rating
£6.89 New
---- Used

Save on Adult Learning & University

Current slide {CURRENT_SLIDE} of {TOTAL_SLIDES}- Save on Adult Learning & University

Bee Manual - 9780857338099
£16.50
Trending at £16.62
The Concise Laws of Human Nature by Robert Greene Paperback, English
£7.39
Trending at £9.26
Military Aircraft Markings 2024 by Stuart Schofield Paperback Book
£12.58
Trending at £12.95
Poor Charlie's Almanack, Charles T. Munger, Hardb
£18.98
Trending at £20.61
Outside In: A Year of Growing & Displaying by Sean A. Pritchard Hardcover Book
£22.80
Trending at £23.75
Silent Spring (Penguin Modern Classics) by Carson, Rachel, NEW Book, FREE & FAST
£9.78
Trending at £10.54

About this product

Product Information

In this book, leading organization theorist Gibson Burrell presents a provocative and challenging approach to the study of organizations, aiming to move beyond the two-dimensionality of much organizational thinking and present more complex 3-D models, which allow for the 'intractions' of apparently disparate perspectives. The book aims to illuminate organization theory by discussing its interrelationship with key features of economics, architecture, aesthetics, design of the built environment, and associated artwork. He argues that by their shared 'definitions', these areas of social science and the humanities are struggling with the same issue - 'the will to form'.The author suggests that, whilst there are a huge number of possibilities for the process of organizing, the constraints of the human body, our cognitive limitations in space and time, and our relationship to nature, mean that these are necessarily limited to an 'envelope' of possibilities. He then outlines the basic parameters of the 'design envelope', analysing it through discussion of 'styles', and examines the hidden assumptions of these styles with regards the origins and potentialities of human knowledge. Burrell argues that the envelope of organizational, politico-economic, and architectural design possibilities may be seen as a cube, thus taking forward the geometrical notions of 'lines' of fight, 'points' of difference, and 'planes' of agreement to discuss the huge range of, and massive constraints upon, human organizing that are reflected in the 'will to form'. Key differences in assumptions demarcate distinct 'styles of organizing' which every reader possesses - whether they are aware of them or not.

Product Identifiers

Publisher
Oxford University Press
ISBN-13
9780199671625
eBay Product ID (ePID)
149051098

Product Key Features

Subject Area
Social Work, Organizational Sociology
Author
Gibson Burrell
Publication Name
Styles of Organizing: the Will to Form
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Subject
Business
Publication Year
2013
Type
Textbook
Number of Pages
292 Pages

Dimensions

Item Height
240mm
Item Width
163mm
Item Weight
598g

Additional Product Features

Title_Author
Gibson Burrell
Country/Region of Manufacture
United Kingdom

Shop by category

Styles of Organizing: The Will to Form by Gibson Burrell (Hardcover, 2013)

Best-selling in Adult Learning & University

Secrets Of Mental Math: The Mathemagician's Guide to Lightening Calculation and Amazing Maths Tricks by Arthur Benjamin, Michael Shermer (Paperback, 2006)

The Falsification of History: Our Distorted Reality by John Hamer (Paperback, 2013)

Code of Practice for In-service Inspection and Testing of Electrical Equipment by The Institution of Engineering and Technology (Paperback, 2020)

Never Split the Difference: Negotiating as if Your Life Depended on It by Chris Voss, Tahl Raz (Paperback, 2017)

Weapons of Mass Instruction: A Schoolteacher's Journey Through the Dark World of Compulsory Schooling by John Taylor Gatto (Paperback, 2010)

Adult Children of Emotionally Immature Parents: How to Heal from Distant, Rejecting, or Self-Involved Parents by Lindsay C Gibson (Paperback, 2015)

Die with Zero: Getting All You Can from Your Money and Your Life by Bill Perkins (Paperback, 2021)

Save on Adult Learning & University

Bee Manual - 9780857338099

The Concise Laws of Human Nature by Robert Greene Paperback, English

Military Aircraft Markings 2024 by Stuart Schofield Paperback Book

Poor Charlie's Almanack, Charles T. Munger, Hardb

Outside In: A Year of Growing & Displaying by Sean A. Pritchard Hardcover Book

Silent Spring (Penguin Modern Classics) by Carson, Rachel, NEW Book, FREE & FAST

You may also like

Hardcovers Books

Atlas Hardcovers

Collins Hardcovers

Guy Gibson Antiquarian & Collectable Books

Hardcover Signed Books

Hamlyn Hardcover Books

About this product

Product Information

Product Identifiers

Product Key Features

Dimensions

Additional Product Features