1st Edition

Neo-Industrial Organising Renewal by Action and Knowledge Formation in a Project-intensive Economy

254 Pages
by Routledge

256 Pages
by Routledge

Neo-Industrial Organising explores an emerging area of importance in management and organisation studies, namely the trend towards a projectization of the economy as a whole and the inter- and intra-organisational relations of renewal projects. By reporting on the experiences of twenty-five renewal projects from a wide variety of both local and international organisations, the authors develop a... Read more
1. Neo-industrial organising - issues and challenges 2. Towards a project-intensive economy 3. Shortcomings of present theorising about permanent and temporary organisations 4. The project landscape - our empirical base 5. Action formation in temporary and permanent organisations 6. Knowledge formation in permanent and temporary organisations 7. Marrying action and knowledge formation in 25 renewal projects 8. Neo-industrial managing 9. Neo-industrial organising - implications and prospects Bibliography Index

Biography

Eskil Ekstedt, Rolf A. Lundin, Anders Soderholm, Hans Wirdenius