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The Mythical Organisation

Author : Graham Galer
Publisher : Triarchy Press Limited
ISBN 13 : 9780955768118
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (681 download)

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Download or read book The Mythical Organisation written by Graham Galer and published by Triarchy Press Limited. This book was released on 2008 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The word `myth' has become synonymous with `untrue': in today's rational world, myths are always distrusted and frequently debunked. But myths should not be so easily dismissed. In The Mythical Organisation, Graham Galer identifies the existence of modern-day myths, including myths that have grown up around the British National Health Service, the BBC and climate change. He argues that their creation and development are driven by an underlying and often unconscious need to explain and maintain the social order. Drawing on his experience in scenario planning at Royal Dutch/Shell and in South Africa under apartheid, Galer provides insight and commentary on the importance of myth for social stability and the role myth has to play in changing public opinion and stimulating action. He demonstrates that a myth is not only a means of exploring the past but that it also provides a shared experience that allows us to examine the present and imagine the future. The Mythical Organisation is written for managers in large organisations, as well as for those lecturing or studying in the fields of business management - especially organisational studies and politics.

Business Organization and the Myth of the Market Economy

Author : William Lazonick
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521447881
Total Pages : 392 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (478 download)

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Book Synopsis Business Organization and the Myth of the Market Economy by : William Lazonick

Download or read book Business Organization and the Myth of the Market Economy written by William Lazonick and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1993-05-28 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explains the transitions in twentieth-century industrial leadership in terms of changing business investment strategies and organizational structures.

Myth and Narrative in International Politics

Author : Berit Bliesemann de Guevara
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1137537523
Total Pages : 313 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (375 download)

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Book Synopsis Myth and Narrative in International Politics by : Berit Bliesemann de Guevara

Download or read book Myth and Narrative in International Politics written by Berit Bliesemann de Guevara and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-06-13 with total page 313 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book systematically explores how different theoretical concepts of myth can be utilised to interpretively explore contemporary international politics. From the international community to warlords, from participation to effectiveness – international politics is replete with powerful narratives and commonly held beliefs that qualify as myths. Rebutting the understanding of myth-as-lie, this collection of essays unearths the ideological, naturalising, and depoliticising effect of myths. Myth and Narrative in International Politics: Interpretive Approaches to the Study of IR offers conceptual and methodological guidance on how to make sense of different myth theories and how to employ them in order to explore the powerful collective imaginations and ambiguities that underpin international politics today. Further, it assembles case studies of specific myths in different fields of International Relations, including warfare, global governance, interventionism, development aid, and statebuilding. The findings challenge conventional assumptions in International Relations, encouraging academics in IR and across a range of different fields and disciplines, including development studies, global governance studies, strategic and military studies, intervention and statebuilding studies, and peace and conflict studies, to rethink ideas that are widely unquestioned by policy and academic communities.

The Transformation Myth

Author : Gerald C. Kane
Publisher : MIT Press
ISBN 13 : 0262366576
Total Pages : 247 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (623 download)

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Download or read book The Transformation Myth written by Gerald C. Kane and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2021-09-28 with total page 247 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this business bestseller, how companies can adapt in an era of continuous disruption: a guide to responding to such acute crises as COVID-19. Gold Medalist in Business Disruption/Reinvention. When COVID-19 hit, businesses had to respond almost instantaneously--shifting employees to remote work, repairing broken supply chains, keeping pace with dramatically fluctuating customer demand. They were forced to adapt to a confluence of multiple disruptions inextricably linked to a longer-term, ongoing digital disruption. This book shows that companies that use disruption as an opportunity for innovation emerge from it stronger. Companies that merely attempt to "weather the storm" until things go back to normal (or the next normal), on the other hand, miss an opportunity to thrive. The authors, all experts on business and technology strategy, show that transformation is not a one-and-done event, but a continuous process of adapting to a volatile and uncertain environment. Drawing on five years of research into digital disruption--including a series of interviews with business leaders conducted during the COVID-19 crisis--they offer a framework for understanding disruption and tools for navigating it. They outline the leadership traits, business principles, technological infrastructure, and organizational building blocks essential for adapting to disruption, with examples from real-world organizations. Technology, they remind readers, is not an end in itself, but enables the capabilities essential for surviving an uncertain future: nimbleness, scalability, stability, and optionality.

Myth in Modern Media Management and Marketing

Author : Kreft, Jan
Publisher : IGI Global
ISBN 13 : 1522591028
Total Pages : 317 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (225 download)

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Download or read book Myth in Modern Media Management and Marketing written by Kreft, Jan and published by IGI Global. This book was released on 2019-06-14 with total page 317 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The development of communication technology and the proliferation of centers that collect, interpret, and transmit information does not mean that communities have become a more transparent and enlightened environment. If anything, the pioneering research of modern communication signifies the ambiguity of individual and collective existence. Myth in Modern Media Management and Marketing is an essential reference source that discusses the analysis of the role of myth and mythical thinking in the operation of media organizations and their functioning on the media market. Featuring research on topics such as social media, brand management, and advertising, this book is ideally designed for social media analysts, media specialists, public relations managers, media managers, marketers, advertisers, students, researchers, and professionals involved with media and new media management.

Beyond the Myth of Nationality

Author : Semin Suvarierol
Publisher : Eburon Uitgeverij B.V.
ISBN 13 : 9059722280
Total Pages : 217 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (597 download)

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Download or read book Beyond the Myth of Nationality written by Semin Suvarierol and published by Eburon Uitgeverij B.V.. This book was released on 2007 with total page 217 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Myths of Technology

Author : Judith Burnett
Publisher : Peter Lang
ISBN 13 : 9781433101281
Total Pages : 250 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (12 download)

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Download or read book The Myths of Technology written by Judith Burnett and published by Peter Lang. This book was released on 2009 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book questions whether technologies are the rational, tangible, scientific, forward-thinking, neutral objects they are so often perceived to be, exploring instead how powerful, mythic ideas about technologies drive our social understanding and our expectations of them. Against a rising tide of information, we encounter significant technological, scientific, and medical advances which promise to create an educated, humane, and equal world. This book explores that promise, deconstructing technologies to conclude that though they do afford us significant and empowering advances, they remain largely cloaked in mystery, and often promise more than they can deliver. Contributors from diverse intellectual backgrounds and political and epistemological stances - spanning sociology and psychosocial investigations, innovation studies, and scientists - combine philosophical inquiry and empirical case studies to create a book which is at once provocative, innovative, and exciting in the challenges it poses.

The Mythology of the Secret Societies

Author : John Morris Roberts
Publisher : London : Secker and Warburg
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 394 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Mythology of the Secret Societies written by John Morris Roberts and published by London : Secker and Warburg. This book was released on 1972 with total page 394 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Organization Theory and the Public Sector

Author : Tom Christensen
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134080263
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (34 download)

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Download or read book Organization Theory and the Public Sector written by Tom Christensen and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2007-10-30 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Public sector organizations are fundamentally different to their private sector counterparts. They are multi-functional, follow a political leadership, and the majority do not operate in an external market. In an era of rapid reform, reorganization and modernization of the public sector, this book offers a timely and illuminating introduction to the public sector organization that recognizes its unique values, interests, knowledge and power-base. Drawing on both instrumental and institutional perspectives within organization theory, as well as democratic theory and empirical studies of decision-making, this text addresses five central aspects of the public sector organization: goals and values leadership and steering reform and change effects and implications understanding and design. This volume challenges conventional economic analysis of the public sector, arguing instead for a democratic-political approach and a new, prescriptive organization theory. A rich resource of both theory and practice, Organization Theory for the Public Sector: Instrument, Culture and Myth is essential reading for anybody studying the public sector.

Thriving Innovation Beyond the Myths of Functional Concentration and Organisational Consonance

Author : F. den Hertog
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 36 pages
Book Rating : 4.E/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Thriving Innovation Beyond the Myths of Functional Concentration and Organisational Consonance written by F. den Hertog and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Exploding the Myth?

Author : Derek Braddon
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317836510
Total Pages : 307 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (178 download)

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Download or read book Exploding the Myth? written by Derek Braddon and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-02-25 with total page 307 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From a cold war peak of some $1000 billion per annum, world military expenditure has declined by about 40% since 1990, reaching its lowest level for thirty years. With such significant decline in global public expenditure committments to the defence sector, a substantial and lasting peace dividend was anticipated. Most governments believed that market forces, left more or less to their own devices, would deal effectively with this major exogenous shock and generate sufficient new economic activity to allow increased public expenditure on health, education and welfare. The approach of this book is to challenge the fundamental but flawed belief that a substantial and lasting peace dividend could be secured through market solution alone. The principal assertion is that market adjustment by itself cannot deliver such a dividend.The book focuses on the major aspects of the economic, business and security consequences of post Cold War defence expenditure reduction. Key problems obstructing optimal market response are identified and possible remedial action by government and others is considered.

Monster Hunter International, Second Edition

Author : Larry Correia
Publisher : Baen Publishing Enterprises
ISBN 13 : 1625794347
Total Pages : 656 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (257 download)

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Download or read book Monster Hunter International, Second Edition written by Larry Correia and published by Baen Publishing Enterprises. This book was released on 2015-05-13 with total page 656 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contains an all-new afterword by New York Times best-selling author Larry Correia! Welcome to Monster Hunter International. Five days after Owen Zastava Pitt pushed his insufferable boss out of a fourteenth story window, he woke up in the hospital with a scarred face, an unbelievable memory, and a job offer. It turns out that monsters are real. All the things from myth, legend, and B-movies are out there, waiting in the shadows. Officially secret, some of them are evil, and some are just hungry. On the other side are the people who kill monsters for a living. Monster Hunter International is the premier eradication company in the business. And now Owen is their newest recruit. It's actually a pretty sweet gig, except for one little problem. An ancient entity known as the Cursed One has returned to settle a centuries old vendetta. Should the Cursed One succeed, it means the end of the world, and MHI is the only thing standing in his way. With the clock ticking towards Armageddon, Owen finds himself trapped between legions of undead minions, belligerent federal agents, a cryptic ghost who has taken up residence inside his head, and the cursed family of the woman he loves. Business is good . . . At the publisher's request, this title is sold without DRM (Digital Rights Management). Lexile Score: 710

Myths, Stories, and Organizations

Author : Yiannis Gabriel
Publisher : Oxford University Press on Demand
ISBN 13 : 0199264473
Total Pages : 263 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (992 download)

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Download or read book Myths, Stories, and Organizations written by Yiannis Gabriel and published by Oxford University Press on Demand. This book was released on 2004 with total page 263 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Each chapter of the book takes as its starting point a myth, a legend, a story or a fable and explores its contemporary relevance for a world of globalization, organizations and consumerism. Each contributor is inspired by a relatively short but rich text which is then used as a springboard for an analysis of contemporary social and organizational realities. The idea behind this book is that by looking at contemporary society through the prism of pre-modern narratives, certain features emerge in sharp relief, while others are found to be entrenched in societies across the ages. The texts that have inspired the authors of this collection differ-some are myths, some are stories, one is a children's tale. The origins of these texts differ, from the scriptural to the folkloric, from high art to oral tradition. What all the texts have in common is a distinct and compelling plot, a cast of recognizable characters with an ability to touch us and speak to us through the ages, and above all, a powerful symbolic aura, one that makes them identifiable landmarks in storytelling tradition. The driving force behind this project was each author's love for their narratives. It is not an exaggeration to say that the book is a true labor of love. The chapters are introduced by the editor and are arranged in four parts, each with its own introduction. The chapters in each part spring from stories that share a narrative character, and are labeled as Knowledge Narratives, Heroic Narratives, Tragic Narratives and Reflective Narratives. The book offers a set of probing, original and critical inquiries into the nature of human experience knowledge and truth, the nature of leadership, power and heroic achievement, postmodernity and its discontents, and emotion, identity and the nature of human relations in organizations. Different chapters deal, among pother things, with the nature of leadership in the face of terrorism, friendship, women's position in organizations, the struggle for identity, the curse of insatiable consumption and the ways the hero and heroine are constructed in our times.

Beyond the Myths about the Natural and Social Sciences

Author : Katarina Prpić
Publisher : Katarina Prpic
ISBN 13 : 9536218402
Total Pages : 338 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (362 download)

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Download or read book Beyond the Myths about the Natural and Social Sciences written by Katarina Prpić and published by Katarina Prpic. This book was released on 2009 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Myth of Measurement

Author : Nick Frost
Publisher : SAGE
ISBN 13 : 1529760739
Total Pages : 136 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (297 download)

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Download or read book The Myth of Measurement written by Nick Frost and published by SAGE. This book was released on 2021-08-04 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the public sector inspection regimes and performance targets provide a powerful and dominant narrative, often placing pressure on professionals and organisations to continuously quantify the quality of services and to achieve targets. This book explores the background, development, techniques and impact of such regimes across areas of the public sector including schools, universities, police forces, children’s services and health services. Putting inspection and audit regimes under scrutiny, the author questions their role and function across these organisations and builds a persuasive critical argument for the re-thinking of public accountability mechanisms and techniques.

The Myth of the Nation and the Vision of Revolution

Author : Jacob Leib Talmon
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 9780520044494
Total Pages : 664 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (444 download)

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Download or read book The Myth of the Nation and the Vision of Revolution written by Jacob Leib Talmon and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 1981-01-01 with total page 664 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Mythological State and its Empire

Author : David Grant
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135858985
Total Pages : 353 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (358 download)

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Download or read book The Mythological State and its Empire written by David Grant and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2010-06-21 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: We see the modern State as the most rational form of governing yet devised, and one which properly recognises our inherent individual rights. However, as the histories of colonialism and imprisonment reveal, it is also an intruder into the lives of generally unwilling individuals, constraining rights. This book looks beneath the contradiction to see an entity willingly sustained by all individuals and for which we forgo our responsibility to and for ourselves. We place ourselves in the hands of those interests that promise to deal with our fears and desires the best. Probing the work of political thinkers from Hobbes to Rawls, the book discovers a State that is a real, mythological entity, spreading across social and geographic space and concerned first with satisfying our two passions. Understanding this mythology may allow reason to emerge from its service to fear and desire, so that the modern State could become truly modern. This book will be of interest to scholars in Sociology, Politics, Philosophy, and Law.