A Tale of Three Cities (häftad)
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Inbunden (Hardback)
Språk
Engelska
Antal sidor
172
Utgivningsdatum
2002-12-12
Förlag
OUP OXFORD
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243 x 162 x 20 mm
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420 g
ISBN
9780199252701

A Tale of Three Cities

Or the Glocalization of City Management

av Barbara Czarniawska, Barbara Czarniawska
Inbunden,  Engelska, 2002-12-12
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Cities are complex, sprawling, diverse places. They are organized, but disorganized; managed, but unmanaged; orderly, but disorderly. Modern metropolitan cities reproduce themselves and we are familiar with the common icons that are replicated in every part of the globe, but how should we understand cities? For the past five years, Professor Czarniawska has been leading a research project on globalization and the management of cities.;Rather than seeing the city as a conurbation, or a location of economic activity, or in terms of governance and administration, Czarniawska explores the city as an action net. An action net of this sort includes various organizations - municipal, state, private, and voluntary-and non-organized individuals. Such an approach was designed to avoid the fallacy of viewing the big city as one big organization. The city is thus conceived as a particularly complex and disorderly action net; a seamless web of interorganizational networks, where the city administration proper constitutes just one point of entry and by no means provides a map of the entire terrain. The research focuses on three European capitals: Warsaw, Stockholm, and Rome.; This book is intende
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Barbara Czarniawska, Barbara Czarniawska

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Barbara Czarniawska is Skandia Professor of Management Studies at the Gothenburg Research Institute, Göteborg University, and is widely regarded as one of the leading Europeans in the field of organization studies. Previous positions include Chair of Management in the Department of Business Administration, Lund University, and Associate Professor and Acting Chair in Public Management at the Stockholm School of Economics. Recent academic posts abroad include Arthur Andersen Visiting Fellow at the Department of Accounting and Finance, London School of Economics and Political Science (March 1996), and Visiting Professor at the University of Innsbruck, Austria (1994).

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