Ghosts of Organizations Past - Communities of Organizations As Settings for Change

Klappentext Dan Ryan is Kathryn P. Hannam Associate Professor at Mills College in Oakland, California and Adjunct Professor of Technology and Social Science in the Iovine and Young Academy for Arts, Technology, and the Business of Innovation at the University of Southern California.

List of contents

Preface

Acknowledgments

Part I / From Opportunity to Disaster (and Back Again)

1 The Ghosts of Organizations Past

Part II / Disaster and Opportunity

2 From Disaster to Opportunity 

3 From Opportunity to Disaster

Part III / Communities and Organizations

4 What Kind of Thing Is Community?

5 What Kind of Thing Is an Organization?

6 Doing Things with Organizations in Communities

Part IV / Organizing Organizations

7 Doing Things with Organizations: The Cost of Organizational Diversity

8 Doing Things with Organizations: The Cost of System

9 Networks of Garbage Cans: The Amplification of Irrationality

10 Networks and Calendar Noise

Part V / Social Organizational Junkyards

11 Community as Organizational Junkyard

12 Why Can’t Organizations Be Like Us?

Bibliography

Index

About the author

Dan Ryan is Kathryn P. Hannam Associate Professor at Mills College in Oakland, California and Adjunct Professor of Technology and Social Science in the Iovine and Young Academy for Arts, Technology, and the Business of Innovation at the University of Southern California.

Product details

• Authors: Dan Ryan
• Publisher: Temple University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 10.06.2015
• EAN: 9781439912553
• ISBN: 978-1-4399-1255-3
• No. of pages: 232
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Geosciences > Urban, spatial and country planning; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories