Organized worlds : explorations in technology and organization with Robert Cooper

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Organized worlds : explorations in technology and organization with Robert Cooper

edited by Robert Chia

Routledge, 1998

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Includes bibliographical references (p. 178-180) and index

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Description

Organized Worlds locates the study of organization within the wider area of social theory. It explores in detail the intricate relationships that exist between technology, representation and organization. The collection includes a chapter from the leading expert in the field, Robert Cooper, as well as an interview with him. Other contributors build upon and extend the findings of Cooper. This is a companion volume to In the Realm of Organization.

Table of Contents

  • Organization/disorganization
  • information, communication and organization - a post-structural revision
  • information theory and organization
  • the postmodern - science, knowledge, organization
  • formal organization as representation - remote control, displacement and abbreviation
  • technologies of representation
  • the mirror on the wall - a history of the technology of seeing
  • sorporation
  • the labour of division
  • institutional aesthetics.

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