Anarchism, Organization and Management by Martin Parker
The book shows how anarchist ideas can turn management on its head, challenging business school assumptions about the theory and practice of organizing.'This exquisite book achieves what it sets out to doIt shows that another world, a non-managerial world, is indeed possible.'
Marx & Philosophy Review of Books
'Have you been waiting for a management book that would help you in your work and planning? Or, have you, like me, spent many good hours imagining a working, living, breathing anarchist society? If so, then this book is for you. It is also for you, if you are curious about what lies in the parts of the maps of organizing, officially marked with "here be dragons." Or if you are tired of the assumption that there is no alternative, when everything in and around us is bursting with an abundance of alternatives, and the future of the planet happens to depend on using our imagination more often, and better? Yes, this book is it: a powerful and practical invitation to think about management and organization differently.'
Monika Kostera, The Jagiellonian University, Poland
'Tackling conventional approaches to management with clarity and assurance, this collection invites students to re-think and re-imagine organisation by detaching "management" from bureaucratic, market principles. Parker, Stoborod and Swann outline a brilliant case for anarchist recuperation and the contributors to this collection provide a critical exploration of the mainstream that helps explain why so many of us find it hard to manage in our neat and tightly managed worlds.'
Ruth Kinna, Loughborough University, UK
'This book aims to be an "antidote to management common sense." It fits the bill by being at once exciting and cultured, challenging and relevant. The chapters, crisply organized, juxtapose routine and contemporary management ideas and issues (e.g. culture, decision making, new technologies, innovation) with anarchist forms, inviting readers to meet different and stimulating realities of organizing that expand and struggle with notions of collective and individual freedom, autonomy and responsibility.'
Alessia Contu, University of Massachusetts, Boston, USA
Martin Parker is a professor in the School of Management, University of Bristol, and author of Shut Down the Business School (2018).
Konstantin Stoborod is an independent scholar based in Moscow.
Thomas Swann is a Leverhulme Early Career Fellow in Politics and International Studies at Loughborough University. His book Anarchist Cybernetics will be published in 2020.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781138044111 |
| ISBN 10 | 1138044113 |
| Title | Anarchism, Organization and Management |
| Author | Martin Parker |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Taylor & Francis Ltd |
| Year published | 2020-02-26 |
| Number of pages | 250 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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