new Weberian perspectives on work, organization, and society /
First Statement of Responsibility
edited by Larry J. Ray and Michael Reed.
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Place of Publication, Distribution, etc.
New York :
Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.
Routledge,
Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.
1994.
PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
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1 online resource (viii, 211 pages)
INTERNAL BIBLIOGRAPHIES/INDEXES NOTE
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
CONTENTS NOTE
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Book Cover; Title; Contents; List of figures; List of contributors; Weber, organizations and modernity: an introduction; Bringing the text back in: on ways of reading the iron cage metaphor hi the two editions of The Protestant Ethic; Max Weber and contemporary sociology of organizations; Work and authority: some Weberian perspectives; Accounting for organizational feeling; Max Weber on individualism, bureaucracy and despotism: political authoritarianism and contemporary politics; Commerce, science and the modern university; Max Weber and the dilemmas of modernity.
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SUMMARY OR ABSTRACT
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This book provides a re-evaluation of Weber's work on the current debates about the institutional and organizational dynamics of modernity, offering interpretations of his work which emphasize the reality of modernity as a dual process.