- 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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