The illusion of management control : a systems theoretical approach to managerial technologies /
This book shows how a system theoretical concept of technology helps us to understand the paradoxes of control. It describes a phenomenon which shows regularity that is unexpected against the background of received knowledge within management studies. It presents a series of cases which touch upon a...
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| Language: | English |
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Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire ; New York :
Palgrave Macmillan,
2012.
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| Online Access: | Connect to the full text of this electronic book |
Table of Contents:
- An introduction to understanding technology as illusions
- Part I. Managing the employee
- Cash, codes and complexity: new adventures in the public management of pay scales
- Information and other bodily functions: stool records in Danish residential homes
- Part II. Managing the citizen
- Hybrid inclusion: multiple inclusion mechanisms in the modernized organization of Danish welfare services
- Citizens' contracts as a tricky steering medium
- Part III. Managing the organization
- Structural couplings between organizations and function systems: looking at standards in health care
- The polyphonic effects of technological changes in public sector organizations: a systems theoretical approach
- Part IV. Managing the market
- Market as a political future
- 'Watching the market': visual representations of the financial economy in advertisements
- The time of money.