A Tale of Three Cities

Or the Glocalization of City Management

AvBarbara Czarniawska

Inbunden, Engelska, 2002

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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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Utgivningsdatum:2002-12-12
Mått:161 x 242 x 18 mm
Vikt:434 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:172
Förlag:OUP OXFORD
ISBN:9780199252701
Utmärkelser:Wihuri International Prize, Board of the Wihuri Foundation in Helsinki, Finland

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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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Review from other book by this author A stunningly original invitation for social scientists to rethink their craft and recraft their thinking. Czarniawska ponders the abstract catchwords of organization theory and rewords them into challenging new possibilities. Writing Management is vivid proof that the path to enlightenment lies in blurred genres. This is a book whose impact is subtle, deep, and tacit.

Innehållsförteckning

1. Studying Management in a Glocalized City ; 2. 'The European Capital': The Work of Representation in Identity and Alterity Construction ; 3. Traffic and Transport, or the Difficulties of Reframing ; 4. Europeanization: Coercion or Mimesis? ; 5. The Invention of Tradition and Social Memory ; 6. City Management in its Cultural Context ; 7. The Fashionable City