Analyse af organisationskultur i offentlige og private virksomheder.
The theme of this book is how organizations produce ideology, and how ideology and action can systematically conflict with one another to the benefit of organizational legitimacy and survival. It follows "The Irrational Organization", which was Brunsson's previous book.
The theme of this book is how organizations produce ideology, and how ideology and action can systematically conflict with one another to the benefit of organizational legitimacy and survival. It follows "The Irrational Organization", which was Brunsson's previous book.
Hypocrisy Unmasked aims more broadly to situate the phenomenon of hypocrisy within a postmodern framework, explaining it as a compromise fashioned by an embodied agent struggling to adapt and flourish amid moral ambiguity and uncertainty. Because morality ultimately is subjectiv…
Hypocrisy Unmasked explores the motives, meanings, and mechanisms of hypocrisy, challenging two principal psychoanalytic assumptions: First, that hypocrisy expresses deviant, uncontrollable impulses or follows exclusively from superego weakness; and second, that it can be unders…
"Raphael Sassower's timely reflection on the manifold complexity of hypocrisy could not be more necessary. His consideration of the implication of falsehoods across multiple registers of life is required reading."--Michael E. Sawyer, Colorado College, USA, and author of Black Mi…
Hollywood Fantasies of Miscegenation analyzes white fantasies of interracial desire in the history of popular American film. From the first interracial screen kiss of 1903, through the Production Code's nearly thirty-year ban on depictions of "miscegenation," to the contemplatio…