Analyzing emerging practices of collaboration in planning and public policy to overcome the challenges complexity, fragmentation and uncertainty, the authors present a new theory of collaborative rationality, to help make sense of the new practices. They enquire in detail into h…
"Planning, public policy, and administration are increasingly challenged by complexity, fragmentation, uncertainty, and global processes. Traditional approaches do not provide solutions to wicked problems. These challenges are stimulating alternative theory and practices around …
Through illustrative examples from organizations including AT & T, GTE, Ford, and Motorola, the authors show how their Process Management approach can: forge a stronger link between strategy and process redesign; install a top-to-bottom measurement system that provides a foundat…
"In the Grip of Freedom examines the relationship between Max Weber's Sociology of Law and his analysis of the structure and meaning of modern society. The interpretation of legal phenomena plays a prominent role in Weber's account of the development of the West and in his conce…
The recent renewal of interest in Max Weber evidences an attempt to enlist his thought in the service of a renewed dream of Enlightenment individualism. Yet he was the first twentieth-century thinker to fully appreciate the pervasiveness and ambiguity of rationalization which th…
George Ritzer's McDonaldization thesis argued that contemporary life is succumbing to the standardization, flexibility and practicability of fast-food service. This book brings together specially commissioned papers by leading social and cultural analysts to engage in a critical…
George Ritzer's McDonaldization thesis argued that contemporary life is succumbing to the standardization, flexibility and practicability of fast-food service. This book brings together specially commissioned papers by leading social and cultural analysts to engage in a critical…
The McDonaldization theory argued that contemporary life is succumbing to the standardisation, flexibility and predictability of fast-food service. This text engages in a critical appraisal of this thesis.
