Ghosts of organizations past : communities of organizations as settings for change / Dan Ryan.

Author: Ryan, Dan (Daniel John), 1959-

Imprint:Philadelphia : Temple University Press, 2015.

Descriptionxvi, 258 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm

Note: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 theory -- 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 Note:Includes bibliographical references (pages 239-252) and index.

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